Philip Hayes (phayes)

Phil is currently an active career Captain with the City of Stamford Fire & Rescue Department. He spent more than 20 years with Stamfords' Rescue 1 and has experience as a former Paramedic, EMS Instructor, Rescue Diver and Fire Officer. Before moving to Connecticut to join the Stamford Fire & Rescue Department, he spent many several years as a paramedic in Southern Westchester County, NY.

Phil is also experienced with graphic design, multimedia development, digital video and audio. Phil brings both vision and implementation experiences of internet technology solutions and is critical in developing the web-strategy plans and operational infrastructure to Sirius Innovations and the Village sites.

Steve Cole, Paramedic, CCEMTP

Steve Cole has been involved in EMS and EMS education since 1990. He has worked for a variety of EMS agencies including volunteer fire, military, hospital based, private, and third service.  He is currently employed by Ada County Paramedics (Boise, Idaho),atop-tier and often besieged 'Third Service' EMS, as a Captain, and as an FTO.

He is involved in many projects, stands on many soap boxes, wears many hats, and generally tries to 'fight the good fight'. He is also known locally as an EMS expert on 'all things freaky', which he hopes is a compliment. He lives near Boise with his family, where he spends his ample spare time reading, playing, and trying to hit the cheerios  in the toilet.  

He has no current conflicts of interest with any of his articles, and has not received from any commercial interest for their production. He would like to mention that he is open for some money, should a sufficiently insane commercial enterprise wish to invest in his expansive, eclectic, and somewhat haphazard quest for EMS excellence. He can be reached by email at: colemedic @ hotmail.com

Graham Vance, RN BScN, EMR

Graham is a Registered Nurse working for Peace Country Health in Alberta. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Alberta. He currently works full time in Population Health as a Public Health Nurse. He holds clinics in Family Health and Travel Health.

Graham has experience in NICU, and paediatrics as he works casually in those two units in the regional hospital. He has spent just over a year working full time in the Intensive Care Unit where most of his nursing experience has been.

He continues to nurse there as a casual staff member as well.Graham involves himself in research and writing research papers as research is one of his passions. He may also, with one of the Internal Medicine physicians, revise policies on how intubated patients are cared for in the ICU.Graham is also an Emergency Medical Responder who enjoys volunteering for an organization who provides first aid coverage at public events. He has done this for over six years. The organization helped to prompt his interest in health care. He plans to continue on in becoming an EMT-A and then, eventually, an EMT-P. Medicine may also be in his future.