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strNewsCopy1 += 'WISER now offers a detailed simulation specialist (technician) preceptor program. ';
strNewsCopy1 += 'This is a 1-5 day program, depending on your needs, that offers the opportunity for ';
strNewsCopy1 += 'simulation specialist or potential simulation specialist, to observe and learn how ';
strNewsCopy1 += 'WISER Simulation Specialists function. Participants of this program will spend time ';
strNewsCopy1 += 'with members of the WISER simulation specialist team and have the opportunity to observe ';
strNewsCopy1 += 'and learn how WISER manages a busy facility.';
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strNewsCopy2 += 'John O\'Donnell, CRNA, MSN, Associate Director, Nursing Programs at ';
strNewsCopy2 += 'WISER was invited by the program committee to lecture at the February ';
strNewsCopy2 += '2006 annual convention of the American Association of Nurse ';
strNewsCopy2 += 'Anesthetists National Assembly of School Faculty. He addressed ';
strNewsCopy2 += 'education technology and simulation in nursing with his presentation, ';
strNewsCopy2 += 'entitled "Technology in Teaching: PowerPoint, SimMan, and the Land of ';
strNewsCopy2 += 'Oz: Is that a yellow-brick or megabyte road we are following?." The ';
strNewsCopy2 += 'AANA National Assembly is the main forum for Nurse Anesthesia Educator ';
strNewsCopy2 += 'networking and mentoring in the world to which John O\'Donnell made a most significant contribution.';
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strNewsCopy3 += 'Richard Henker CRNA, PhD and Amy Seybert, PharmD were recently awarded the prestigious ';
strNewsCopy3 += 'University of Pittsburgh Chancellors Distinguished Teaching Award. Richard was honored ';
strNewsCopy3 += 'for his work in human simulation education, distance education, and international ';
strNewsCopy3 += 'volunteerism. In addition to being a superb classroom and experiential teacher, Amy ';
strNewsCopy3 += 'has combined scholarship with her innovations. Amy incorporated the patient simulators ';
strNewsCopy3 += 'at the WISER Center and has a manuscript in press about the work... ';

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strNewsCopy4 += 'The most recent Simulation User Group Conference for Maryland Community Colleges took place ';
strNewsCopy4 += 'February 23 - 24, 2006, and was entitled "SimMan Conference: Simulation as a Teaching Tool". ';
strNewsCopy4 += 'This event was sponsored by Laerdal Medical and arranged by the Maryland Association of ';
strNewsCopy4 += 'Community Colleges. Tom Dongilli, Director of Operations at WISER, was the invited speaker ';
strNewsCopy4 += 'to present the keynote address. The title of his lecture was: "Developing Pre-programmed ';
strNewsCopy4 += 'Scenarios. Creative Ideas and Approaches. Utilizing your Simulator in Ways you may not ';
strNewsCopy4 += 'have anticipated."';

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