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WISER Welcomes New Staff Members
WISER has added two new members to our WISER family. We are very excited to welcome Noreen Mahboob to our WISER family! Noreen recently started in her role as the Senior Administrative Assistant to WISER?s Director, Dr. Paul Phrampus. As a graduate of the...
Legacy of Caring Award
WISER would like to extend our CONGRATULATIONS to Margaret ?Maggie? Lattanzio, RN, MSN, CCRN and Darlene Hills RN, BSN, CCRN with UPMC Passavant Hospital, on being awarded the Legacy of Caring Award from the Passavant Hospital Foundation. Maggie is a...
WISER Welcomes Dr. Yue!
Dr. Rongzheng Yue joins us from West China Hospital, Sichuan University in China, where she is an attending nephrologist. Her interest in medical teaching began almost 10 years ago, where she started as an assistant teaching director in her nephrology...
WISER Welcomes our Newest Simulation Operations Specialist, Eric Feltner
WISER would like to welcome of newest Simulation Operations Specialist, Eric Feltner, to our team. Eric comes to WISER from STAT MedEvac where he worked as a Communications Specialist for over 9 years. Eric is an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) and is a...
WISER Expands ICRSE Program
Since its first session in 2014, WISER has now conducted its In-patient Crisis Response System Evaluation (ICRSE) Program at 11 different UPMC hospitals and ran 94 in-situ sessions for approximately 1600 staff members. The program?s goal is to improve how staff and...
Congratulations to Dr. William McIvor
Congratulations to Dr. William McIvor, Cardiac Anesthesiologist at UPMC and Associate Director, Medical Student Programs at WISER, for your recent publication. The article titled Simulation-based Assessment of the Management of...
Welcome Drs. Bo Yu (Molly) and Wei Li (Wendy)
WISER would like to welcome Drs. Bo Yu (Molly) and Wei Li (Wendy) who are visiting us from Shanghai University of Medicine and Health Sciences. They have just completed their first week of WISER's two week Professional Development Program, which is part of our...
WISER Welcomes Minjie Lin!
WISER is excited to welcome its newest fellow, Minjie Lin MD, PhD. Dr. Lin is a MD and a PhD in the field of Cardiology. Dr. Lin is visiting WISER from the Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University in China. At her institution, Dr. Lin held the position of...
Please welcome our new Senior Administrative Assistant, Peggy Atkinson!
WISER would like to send a big "Welcome" to our new Senior Administrative Assistant, Peggy Atkinson! Peggy will be the Administrative Assistant to WISER Director, Dr. Paul Phrampus. Prior to coming to WISER Peggy worked at UPMC Mercy in the Department of...
John M. O’Donnell will be a feature speaker at the 2017 PNEG Conference in Pittsburgh.
John M. O'Donnell, DRPH, MSN, RN, CRNA, will be the featured speaker this year at the Professional Nurse Educators Group (PNEG) 44th Annual National Conference on Professional Nursing Education and Development. The conference will be held November 10-12, 2017 at...
WISER Hosts Simulation User Group Meeting
WISER Hosts Simulation User Group MeetingWISER Highlights Winter 2023More than 60 simulation educators from the tristate area came to WISER on Thursday October 13, 2022, for an entire day of education dedication simulation-based training. Dr. Paul Phrampus (WISER...
SIMS 2022 Wrap Up!
SIMS Improves in 2022, Offers More Tools To ClientsWISER Highlights Winter 2023As the new year begins, we reflect back at some of the highlights of SIMS over 2022. In addition to bringing on new clients, we also migrated over half a dozen existing clients to the new...
Rapid Response Symposium Wrap Up
Inaugural UPMC Employee Rapid Response Symposium A SuccessWISER Highlights Winter 2023There is a lot that must happen—and go well—when a medical emergency occurs in a hospital. WISER’s extensive work on assessment of medical emergencies through the In-Patient Crisis...
Director’s Corner Winter 2023
Director’s Corner with Dr. Paul PhrampusWISER Highlights Winter 2023Greetings Friends of WISER, We enjoyed a very busy fall at WISER. Starting with our most exciting news, WISER was successfully re-accredited by the Society for Simulation in Healthcare in all areas of...
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