Heroes are at work in the laboratories of the Weil Institute of Critical Care Medicine.

Heroes like Professor Joe Bisera, born in Hawaii , he spent the early years of life becoming one of the original biomedical engineering specialists.  In 1975, Professor Bisera found himself attracted to us from a lucrative commercial position to join the engineering staff of the predecessor of our Institute, the Center for the Critically Ill, at the University of Southern California .

When he considered the lessons he learned as a child, he decided to turn them into action.  Building his career as an intimate scientific collaborator with Dr. Weil, Professor Bisera chose to use his unique talent as an electrical and biomedical master engineer to make a contribution to society beyond his personal ambitions and goals.

Spearheading breakthrough research at the Institute, Professor Bisera and his team joined to develop many of the devices for monitoring in Intensive Care including the introduction of then quite early computer systems to the bedside.  Monitors for the Emergency Department, the catheterization laboratory, the Trauma surgeons and for operating rooms, and especially for heart surgery followed.  As the inventor or co-inventor of 20 patents, he has earned world wide recognition over the past 36 years.  He is the friend and mentor of the many clinical and laboratory researchers, and especially the young physician and engineering trainees to whom he gave tools for their life saving research.

It may have sounded like science fiction when it began, the first Intensive Care Unit with its present day monitors.  The Institute has indeed brought forth the fruits of research with the unique talent contributed by Professor Bisera and his team, all to the life saving  benefit of each of us and our loved ones.  Within the last 10 years, concentrating on hearts too young to die, on CPR.   Professor Bisera spearheaded the automated external defibrillator, the chest compressor, the resuscitation blanket and the cardiac arrest detector, these are examples of the inventiveness of Joe Bisera and his associates.  As a supporter of the Institute, you can be very proud of the Institute as a world leader, in a major part due to the long term devotion of Professor Joe Bisera.  His team has worked to assure that each of us and each of our loved ones may receive the meaningful live saving care for which the Institute has and continues to make such important contributions.

The Weil Institute of Critical Care Medicine has been, in part, supported by philanthropic gifts and donations to support its mission of excellence, education in the furtherance of life saving medicine.  Its world renown fellowship training program, the comprehensive laboratory research and development of better methods and devices for critical medicine, and our local programs have done so much.

In our local community, this support has helped to reduce the scourge of sudden death due to cardiac arrest through its Coachella Valley Program of CPR training and its pioneering introduction of AEDs (automated electric  defibrillators) to our local Community.

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Weil Institute of Critical Care Medicine 
35100 Bob Hope Drive
Rancho Mirage , CA 92270

The Institute is a registered 501(c)(3) organization. Its Tax ID number is 51-0181236. All donations are deductible.

We thank you in advance for your support of the Weil Institute of Critical Care Medicine.  Professor Bisera speaks often about the inspiration he feels because of what the teamwork of the physicians and other health scientists committed to working with the engineers has accomplished in life saving medicine with your support.