Dr Stevan Bruijns is a South African/ British emergency physician (dual trained). His interests include quality improvement, emergency care development and research access in African low-resourced settings. He is honorray associate professor of emergency medicine with the University of Cape Town and the chief editor of the African Journal of Emergency Medicine. Stevan is a person of action and like for things he does to be useful to others. He has worked in a number of settings, including resource-rich and resource-poor ones. Stevan currently works at Yeovil District Hospital in Somerset, UK. He also serves on the Royal College of Emergency Medicine's Global Emergency Medicine committee.