Paul Phrampus, MD
phrampuspe@upmc.edu

Dr. Phrampus is the Director at the Peter M. Winter Center for Simulation, Education and Research. He received a B.S. in Biology from Old Dominion University and an M.D. from Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia. He is a board certified Emergency Physician who completed residency training at the University of Pittsburgh where he now holds an appointment of Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine.

Dr. Phrampus has been very active in patient safety efforts in airway management and led a team to create an airway algorithm and an accompanying difficult airway management simulation course specific to the practice of emergency medicine. This course has now been completed by the entire emergency medicine faculty staff of the UPMC Presbyterian Hospital. This course will soon be deployed across the emergency departments of the universities 19 hospital system.

Dr. Phrampus has an extensive background in Emergency Medical Services and serves as an active EMS medical director. He has deployed simulation technology for both testing as well as competency assessment measures in EMS services in Southwestern Pennsylvania. He co-authored a simulation course for flight crew training for Stat Medevac, which operates 16 helicopters, multiple fixed wing aircraft and employs over 200 crew members, flying over 10,000 missions per year.

He has been active in education for many years and was recently awarded the faculty excellence award by the University of Pittsburgh Emergency Medicine Residency. He is a frequent lecturer on various topics in medicine. His interests in education include the implementation of technology into the world of education to increase the efficiency of learning and developing models of cognitive decision making assessments. He has many years of experience with computer system and electronics gained from his years of service in the United States Navy.