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Chief Robert R. Rielage, CFO, EFO, FIFireE, is the former Ohio fire marshal and has been a chief officer in several departments for more than 30 years. A graduate of the Kennedy School’s Program for Senior Executives in State and Local Government at Harvard University, Rielage holds a master’s degree in public administration from Norwich University and is a past-president of the Institution of Fire Engineers – USA Branch. He has served as a subject-matter expert, program coordinator and evaluator, and representative working with national-level organizations, such as FEMA, the USFA and the National Fire Academy. Rielage served as a committee member for NFPA 1250 and NFPA 1201. In 2019, he received the Ohio Fire Service Distinguished Service Award. Rielage is currently working on two books – “On Fire Service Leadership” and “A Practical Guide for Families Dealing with a Fire or Police LODD.” Connect with Rielage via email.

Stephanie Marshall Limmer is the CEO of Limmer Creative, an EMS mobile publishing company. She has worked in the marketing, publishing and technology industries and holds a Master of Library & Information Studies from the University at Buffalo. For purposes of this column, she is an EMT Student.

EMS1.com columnist Steve Athey, President/Owner of Health Care Visions, functions as the lead consultant for the firm, providing general consulting to a variety of firms across the country. Two systems under Steve’s direction have been recipients of the Texas EMS System of the Year Award.

Steve Wirth and Doug Wolfberg are partners in Page, Wolfberg & Wirth, LLC, The National EMS Industry Law Firm™. They co-authored the critically acclaimed Ambulance Service Guide to HIPAA Compliance and HPTV: The HIPAA Privacy and Security Training Video. They can be reached at www.pwwemslaw.com.

Susanna J. Smith is a freelancer writer focused on the future of healthcare and how new technologies are reshaping the healthcare industry. She is the content manager and a contributing blogger at Medlert Inc, a San Francisco-based software company that is developing mobile, cloud-based solutions for the healthcare ecosystem, including the EMS industry. Susanna holds a Masters in Public Health from Columbia University and has worked as a writer, editor, and researcher for more ten years, including with the American Medical Association, the International Women’s Health Coalition, and a number of digital health companies. You can follow her work at susannajsmith.com or connect on Twitter: @SusannaJSmith, @Medlert.

I’m writing this between calls. I suppose you could say it’s a journal. All I know is I’ve been keeping track of things that happen to me in EMS ever since I got started. That was back in the ‘80s, before we wore gloves or sunglasses. I still can’t believe I’ve been in EMS that long. If not for one big misunderstanding and lots of luck, I never would have made it this far. The folks at EMS1 have asked me to tell you about my questionable, mysterious past. My first thought was, cool, I’m an author. Then I remembered some of the problems I’ve had writing – things like job applications, birthday cards, even shopping lists. I figured I better keep my name out of this until I get a little more comfortable with adjectives and subjectives. Meanwhile, just call me The Reluctant Medic.

“The Spoof” comedy section brings together fake, fictitious and entirely made-up “news” articles by the EMS1 team of staff writers and columnists. Want to get creative? Send us your news story satires to editor@ems1.com!

Tom Bouthillet, NREMT-P, is the battalion chief of EMS for Hilton Head Island Fire Rescue. He is a member of NHTSA’s High Performance CPR Working Group, program director of the South Carolina Resuscitation Academy, member of the Editorial Advisory Board of EMS World, content reviewer for the British Paramedic Journal, co-producer of the Code STEMI web series, and editor of EMS12Lead.com. Tom is interested in system performance, process improvement, and evidence-based performance measures for time-sensitive diagnoses.

He graduated with a paramedic/paramedicine degree from Parma Community Hospital EMS Education Program. His writings have been referenced in the American Heart Journal, the Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Cardiovascular Interventions and the EP Lab Digest.