Randall Schaefer

Randall M. Schaefer (Lieutenant Colonel, US Army, Retired), DNP, RN, CEN, served 20 years as an Emergency/Trauma Nurse in operational units and fixed facilities in clinical and staff officer roles. She deployed three times in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Inherent Resolve. During deployments, she established and implemented prehospital blood programs and Walking Blood Banks at the unit and strategic levels.
She worked at the Southwest Texas Regional Advisory Council (STRAC) as the program manager for developing and implementing the country's first multi-institutional, multidisciplinary Regional Whole Blood Program, comprising 18 ground EMS agencies, 10 helicopter EMS bases, and numerous hospitals throughout South Texas. She has assisted dozens of EMS agencies in establishing prehospital blood programs nationwide. Dr. Schaefer is the President of the Prehospital Blood Transfusion Coalition and an AABB Prehospital Standards Working Group Committee member.