Rob Lawrence is the California Chief Operating Officer of Paramedics Plus. He joined the company in 2018 after serving for nine years as the COO at the Richmond Ambulance Authority, Richmond Virginia. Prior to that, he was the Chief Operating Officer for Suffolk as part of the East of England Ambulance Service in the UK. His first career was as an Army Officer, and is a graduate of the UK’s Royal Military Academy Sandhurst where he served as a Medical Support Officer responsible for pre hospital delivery and evacuation in many operational theatres around the world. Rob is Vice Chairman of the AAA Communications Task Force and past Vice President of the Virginia Association of Governmental EMS Administrators. . Rob is also an accomplished writer and broadcaster and international speaker on Pre Hospital subjects and is a member of the Editorial Boards of the Pan American Trauma Journal and EMS World Magazine. Rob is also Affiliate Faculty with Department of Health Administration, School of Allied Health Professions at Virginia Commonwealth University.