Paul LeSage EMT-P Flight Medic AS MIS

Assistant Professor, OHSU School of Medicine
Asst. Fire Chief, TVF&R (Ret)
Founding Partner & Analyst, SGCS

Paul LeSage worked for 29 years as a Firefighter/Paramedic in Portland, Oregon, serving several years on the Technical Rescue and Dive Team and as a Helicopter Flight Paramedic with Life Flight Network. He retired from the fire department as the Assistant Chief of Operations in January 2010, has over 36 years of experience in emergency services as a provider and executive, and has received many awards and commendations, including the prestigious State of Oregon EMS Impact Award, several Lifesaving Awards, and the OFCA’s
Golden Trumpet Award. He spent two years as the Interim Director at Oregon’s second-largest 911 Center, implementing a unique Quality and Performance Program.

Paul currently works as a Founding Partner and Senior Analyst with SG-Collaborative Solutions, where his work centers on creating reliable and resilient systems with high consequence customers. His current clients are primarily centered in commercial aviation, healthcare, and EMS. He also leads teams charged with deconstructing and analyzing aviation and healthcare incidents, and conducts Probabilistic and Predictive Risk Analyses that are designed to improve performance, sustain quality, and better manage risk.

Paul and his teams at SG currently conduct this work across the United States, and in Canada, Central America, and Australia. He holds degrees in Organizational Communications, Human Factors Analysis, EMS, and Fire Science, and is an instructor at the Oregon Health Sciences/OIT School of Medicine.

Paul has authored a popular book on Crew Resource Management in Emergency Services, and was also the founder of Informed Publishing, which created Nursing, Medic, and Emergency Service mobile apps for frontline care providers.