Randall M. Schaefer 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. Upon retirement from Active Duty in 2017 until 2021, she worked at the Southwest Texas Regional Advisory Council (STRAC). She was the program manager for developing and implementing the country’s first multi-institutional, multi-disciplinary Regional Whole Blood Program, comprised of 18 ground EMS agencies, ten helicopter EMS bases, and numerous hospitals throughout South Texas. She has assisted dozens of EMS agencies establish prehospital blood programs across the country. Dr. Schaefer serves as a Steering Committee Member for the Prehospital Blood Transfusion Initiative Coalition, a North Carolina EMS Regional Blood Coalition Board Member, and an AABB Prehospital Standards Working Group Committee member.