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Email from a trauma surgeon? Can you come to my ER and run a trauma team training session at 6:30 am for my residents and trauma team? WISER response? No problem, tell us what you want to do. The patient is a 24 y/o male, multiple gunshot wounds to the neck and chest....

The second award was the 2019 John P. Pryor, MD/Street Medicine Society Award. John P. Pryor, MD, was an EMS physician who was killed while serving in Iraq. Dr. Pryor posthumously received the first award in his name at the 2009 EMS Today conference. Each year,...

WISER is excited to welcome Dr. Kan Wang as a Preceptor to our Visiting Scholars Program! Dr. Wang joins us from China- Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China. At China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Dr. Wang is currently an attending physician in the Department of...

We are happy to announce that Stephen Nelson has accepted the Manager of Simulation Services position. Steve served as a paramedic for 30+ years, including time spent as Chief of Emergency Medical Services in Boston, MA. That position led to his role as an EMS...

WISER is excited to welcome Dr. TaeGun Shin as a Fellow in our Visiting Scholars Program! Dr. Shin joins us from Samsung Medical Center in Seoul, Korea where he works in the Department of Emergency Medicine as an Emergency Medicine Physician. Dr. Shin has served as...

WISER is excited to welcome Dr. Xu Shengyong as a Preceptor in our Visiting Scholars Program! Dr. Shengyong joins us from Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, China. At Peking Medical College, Dr. Shengyong is currently an attending physician in the...

WISER partnered with a local hospital to develop a trauma team training program.  In this event, SimMan, was involved in a pedestrian accident, hit by a car, and brought to this trauma center. After a successful surgical airway, and chest tube, he was stabilized...

WISER would like to welcome two new visiting scholars as Preceptors. WISER is excited to welcome Dr. Fangjie Zhang as a Preceptor in our Visiting Scholars Program! Dr. Zhang joins us from The Affiliated Hangzhou First People?s Hospital, Zhejiang University School of...

WISER is excited to welcome WenLan Zhang as a Preceptor in our Visiting Scholars Program! WenLan joins us from Shanghai Children?s Medical Center in China where she works as a nurse and educator in the Pediatric ICU. WenLan is also an AHA BLS Instructor, a member of...

Congratulations to Thomas Dongilli AT, CHSOS and John O'Donnell, CRNA, MSN, DrPH who were named to the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH) Academy Class of 2019 Fellows! The Fellows will be formally inducted into the SSH Academy at the International Meeting on...