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Director’s Corner – Fall 2025
Greetings, Friends of WISER, As fall settles into Pittsburgh and the colors of the season surround us, the WISER team continues to grow, travel, and innovate in the name of healthcare simulation. This past few months. has been filled with exciting developments both...
WISER Prepares for IMSH as Construction Continues at Scaife
We have had another busy quarter at WISER supporting many new students and faculty with all of their simulation needs. WISER staff are also preparing for the International Meeting for Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH) conference. This year’s conference will take place...
WISER (re)Starts Its 3D Printing Journey
Back in the late 2010's, the WISER Team looked at 3D printing to see if it might be something that would aid our program. What we found were expensive printers that were difficult to setup, finicky to maintain, and limited in the types of materials they could use. In...
WISER creates Simulation Operations Specialist Career ladder
WISER is pleased to announce the creation of the Simulation Operations Specialist Career ladder. Over the past year, WISER leadership has been working on the development of a career ladder that focuses on the advancement of the Simulation Operations Specialist....
Kansas City Simulation Conference and New Curriculum Member
The curriculum department has added Emily Kane to the team! Emily has been a WISER employee for two years with the administration department but was interested in changing her focus to curriculum and what we do to help create and manage the courses that she had been...
WISER Welcomes New Visiting Scholar Dr. Wang
WISER is pleased to welcome Dr. Jiangshan Wang who will be participating in our Visiting Scholar Program over the next 3 months. During his time here, he will be observing WISER courses and spending time with staff to learn simulation center operations and best...
Dr. Lin Appointed Co-Director of WISER Research and Scholarship Committee
We are excited to announce that Dr. Charles J. Lin, M.D., M.Sc., has been named Co-Director of the WISER Research and Scholarship Committee. Dr. Lin is a board-certified anesthesiologist and Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh Schools of Medicine and...
Kaylee Peden Becomes a CHSE
Congratulations to Kaylee Peden on her recent accomplishment of becoming a Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator (CHSE)! Kaylee is an integral member of our WISER team and offers outstanding support to our faculty and staff. We are so proud of her earning her CHSE...
WISER Hosts Jewish Healthcare Foundation Fellows
On Tuesday, July 22, WISER hosted 25 fellows from this year’s class of the Jewish Healthcare Foundation’s Patient Safety Fellowship. The visiting fellows learned how simulation education and assessment methods can help patient safety and improve the quality of care....
WISER Supports ICA Injury Training
Our simulation specialists recently took a fieldtrip to Presby's OR to help support a multidisciplinary simulation-based training focusing on the overall teamwork of interprofessional teams responding to a deteriorating patient! Utilizing high-fidelity simulation...
Director’s Corner — Spring 2026
As we move into the summer months, there continues to be remarkable momentum across the WISER program, with exciting educational initiatives, scholarly activity, and continued growth of our simulation infrastructure. One of the highlights of the season was the...
Director’s Corner – Winter 2026
Greetings friends of WISER. IMSH Our time in San Antonio for IMSH 2026 was an outstanding success by every measure. WISER’s booth presence was one of our most engaging to date. From reconnecting with long-standing collaborators to meeting new simulation professionals...
Simulation Specialist Career Path Created
As WISER continues to expand its services to over 20 simulation centers, we continue to focus on expanding the role of the simulation specialist as well. We are excited about the career path opportunities we have created for our simulation specialists as well. We rely...
WISER Begins 3D Printing to Save Money and Expand Educational Realism
In September of 2025 we at WISER noticed a potential for cost savings that we hadn’t before. One of our highest-consumed items for simulation, the manikin neck skin, is also a rather costly one, running about $50 each. It’s essentially a longer rectangle of rubber...
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