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WISER Welcomes Dr. Henry Cheng-Heng Liu
WISER is excited to welcome Dr. Henry Cheng-Heng Liu as a Preceptor through our Visiting Scholars Program! Dr. Henry Cheng- Heng Liu joins us from National Taiwan University Hospital of Taipei City, Taiwan, where he is a Doctor of Emergency Medicine. Over the course...
WISER had many highlights while attending IMSH 2020 in San Diego!
The International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH) took place at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California from January 18th to 22nd, 2020. This year marked the 20th anniversary for IMSH. IMSH is the world?s largest healthcare...
WISER had many highlights while attending IMSH 2020 in San Diego!
The International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH) took place at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California from January 18th to 22nd, 2020. This year marked the 20th anniversary for IMSH. IMSH is the world’s...
Jim Lightner receives his CHSOS certification at IMSH 2020 and is our February Staff Spotlight!
Just last month our Simulation Operations Specialist, James (Jim) Lightner, BS, EMT-P, CHSOS, received his Certified Healthcare Simulation Operations Specialist (CHSOS) certification at the International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare. CHSOS certifications...
The Bioengineering team created DAPHNE a Postpartum Hemorrhage Novice Educator.
Under the mentorship of WISER Director of Operations, Tom Dongilli, several students from the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering Bioengineering class created DAPHNE: a Dynamic and Accessible Postpartum Hemorrhage Novice Educator. ?After...
Joe Wheeler joins us as our newest Simulation Operations Specialist (SOS)
We have some exciting news to start off 2020! We would like to welcome a new member to the WISER team! Joe Wheeler joins us as our newest Simulation Operations Specialist (SOS). Joe comes to us from The Center for Organ Recovery where he spent 10...
WISER staff will be presenting and have a booth at IMSH 2020 in San Diego, California.
The International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH) 2020 is right around the corner and several WISER staff will be in attendance in San Diego, California. IMSH is the worlds largest healthcare simulation conference exploring the best practices and...
Dr. Chuanhuang Chen joins the growing Visiting Scholars Program as our new fellow!
Our newest fellow Dr. Chuanhuang Chen has ambitious goals during his fellowship at WISER and we are here to help him accomplish those goals! Dr. Chen begins his one year fellowship to learn about simulation center operations, information technology,...
WISER Promotes Safar Symposium and New Patient Safety Report
Every spring, the WISER team looks forward to hosting the annual Safar Symposium! The Safar Symposium gives us an opportunity to recognize leading work in the realm of healthcare and promote simulation-based education programs to support patient safety initiatives....
Using IT Tools to Manage Manikin Maintenance
At WISER, we have approximately 70 manikins across our main facility and 18 satellite locations. To ensure optimal performance and longevity, we aim to perform preventative maintenance (PM) on each manikin twice a year. Keeping track of all these tasks can be quite...
WISER’s Simulation Specialists Support Patient Safety Initiatives
Our operations specialists are instrumental in ensuring all classes run smoothly by programming and running scenarios, helping instructors run realistic simulation-based training events, and performing maintenance and repairs on simulators. Over the past few months,...
New Course: Central Line – ANES VR
One of our newest courses, Central Line - ANES VR, utilizes virtual reality to teach students enrolled in the anesthesia bootcamp how to properly place central lines. Just like simulation, virtual reality can be a great tool to help train, educate, and improve the...
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