Mike Sugimoto is the Director of Clinical Practice for Provincial Clinical Operations at BC Emergency Health Services. He has previously worked as a manager in clinical governance as well as an advanced care paramedic for over twenty years. He is also the editor emeritus of the BC Clinical Practice Guidelines. His research interests include population- and evidence-based approaches for resource allocation, dispatch and communication systems transformation, and the economic evaluation of out-of-hospital interventions. He has spent the majority of his career on southern Vancouver Island, where he lives on the traditional territories of the Lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples, now known as Victoria, with his wife, son, and two dogs.