Dr Michael Schull is a Scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES), and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine (Division of Emergency Medicine), and the Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto. He is a faculty member in the Clinical Epidemiology Unit at the Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre. Dr Schull practices as a staff emergency physician at the Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre. In 2001 he won a prestigious CIHR/Peter Lougheed Award in conjunction with his CIHR New Investigator grant. His research interests include emergency health service utilization and quality of care, emergency department overcrowding and patient safety.