Center for Emergency Medicine of Western Pennsylvania

Their mission is to promote state-of-the-art research on Prehospital Care, educational practices and resuscitation.

The Center for Research works in partnership with the University of Pittsburgh Department of Emergency Medicine.

CONNECT Program website The center as of 2017 also now operates STAT-MD, which provides airline consultation services.

Services such as pilot pre-flight physical screening, in-flight patient consult via STATCOMM at UPMC Presbyterian, ground EMS arrangements and passenger follow up, assistance with training, manuals and on site instruction, Medical Director review of Airline Emergency Medical kits.

Arrangements were made to simulate an operating room, an ICU bed, or a bay in the emergency department.

Over the next four years, a number of faculty members worked to develop a broad range of curricula, using performance evaluations including Internet, CD-ROM, Palm-based, and digital video-based components.

WISER has a classroom dedicated in honor of Tore Laederal, and the research and work that he and his father Asmund's Laederal Corporation have done, inventing, designing and building a majority the simulation equipment and technology that made WISER possible.