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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....
Dr. Paul Phrampus Receives EMS Today’s 2019 John P. Pryor, MD/Street Medicine Society Award
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 Welcomes Dr. Kan Wang To Our Visiting Scholars Program!
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...
Welcome to WISER’s new Manager of Simulation Services, Steve Nelson
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 Welcomes Dr. Tae Gun Shin
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 Welcomes Dr. Xu Shengyong
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 and Local Hospitals Conduct Trauma Team Training
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 Welcomes New Visiting Scholars Dr. Fangjie Zhang and Dr.Ya Cao
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 Welcomes WenLan Zhang in our Visiting Scholars Program!
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...
Tom Dongilli and John O’Donnell named to SSH Academy Class of 2019 Fellows
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...
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...
Xiangya Scholars visit WISER
Through the collaboration between the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and China's prestigious Central South University Xiangya School of Medicine, WISER was able to show visiting Xiangya Scholars a variety of procedures on our simulators and task trainers!...
WISER showcases one-of-a-kind Radiology Contrast Reaction course
WISER and UPMC physicians showed great teamwork and collaboration at the 2024 Society of Breast Imaging (SBI) Breast Imaging Symposium in Montreal, Canada! This symposium gives radiologists the opportunity to improve interpretive accuracy, apply new technologies, and...
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