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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,...
Did you know WISER is on social media? Follow, like, and subscribe today!
Did you know WISER is on social media? Social media has become the norm for many people and organizations and we are one of those organizations. Social media allows people from all around the country and world to share their thoughts, ideas, pictures and...
This week we welcomed three Visiting Scholars to our Visiting Scholars Program!
This week we welcomed three Visiting Scholars to WISER! Dr. Lei Fan joins us from Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, China, where he is an Orthopedic Surgeon. During Dr. Fan's six months with WISER he would like to learn advanced education ideas...
Debby Farkas and Jim Christman were recently honored for their contributions.
A meeting of celebrations! Two UPMC during the monthly staff meeting. Director of Educational Development, Dr. Debby Farkas, was honored with a letter from Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf for her hard work, dedication and outstanding service to the...
Long time Simulation Operations Specialist Marty Mayer promoted to new role!
We did not have to go far in our search for a new Manager of Simulation Services. We are happy to announce Martin Mayer EMT-P, CHSOS as the new Manager of Simulation Services! Marty has been working at WISER since 2014. He previously worked at Baldwin Emergency...
The WISER beacon shines bright for our new fellow, Dr. Jiehua Feng!
WISER is excited to welcome Dr. Jiehua Feng as a Fellow through our Visiting Scholar Program! Dr. Feng joins us from Nanshan District People?s Hospital, Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province, China. Dr. Feng has been engaged in clinical anesthesia for 17 years and...
WISER Spreads Patient Safety Solutions Globally
Greetings Friends, I hope this message finds you well. I have just returned from Sao Paulo, Brazil where I had the honor and pleasure to serve as the keynote speaker for the Latin American Congress of the Simulation Users’ Network (SUN). The enthusiasm and...
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,...
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