DR. SANDRA SCHWEMMER

D.O., FACOEP-D, FACEP, FAAOE, HCRM

Dr. Schwemmer is a Board Certified emergency physician, who has over thirty year's experience in prehospital medicine and emergency medicine. She began her emergency medical career in south Florida and the Florida Keys where she established emergency medical services and prehospital services. She has served as Medical Director for private and governmental EMS agencies, assisting with start-ups for four ground EMS and transport services, and an air medical rotor wing program.

She is a distinguished Fellow in the American College of Osteopathic Emergency Physicians and has served on the Board of FLACEP and the national board of directors for ACOEP and has received many awards. She is qualified in EMS and Occupational Medicine, and is a FL licensed healthcare risk manager.

She serves as Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Education at the University of Miami, where she works with the Gordon Center and has publications addressing prehospital stroke care and prehospital use of telemedicine. She was part of the original group of physicians establishing the Southeastern College of Osteopathic Medicine and it's Foundation and is a founding member of the Health Professions Board of Governors of Nova Southeastern University.

She established an emergency service company providing emergency physician staffing to hospitals in south Florida, EMS Medical Direction, and as well as providing contract services to other hospitals and outpatient facilities in Florida and provided medical billing. She is an experienced ED medical director, training multiple ED medical directors, as well as many EMTs and Paramedics, and served as Medical Director of an EMT training program.

She has numerous personal and professional accomplishments and has served on many regional, State and National Boards and committees as an expert in emergency medicine, EMS, and quality management. She was appointed to the Florida Board of Osteopathic Medicine and chaired the Board from 1990-1992, and again in 2015 through 2023, serving as Vice-Chair, and Chair for three years.

She served as Medical Director of the Palm Beach County Trauma Agency for ten years overseeing the trauma system and trauma quality, writing Palm Beach County Trauma Standard Transport Protocols and Trauma Interfacility Criteria used by 11 EMS agencies, 13 acute care hospitals, 3 freestanding EDs, oversight of 2 rotor-wing air ambulances, and trauma registry data. She also served as Medical Director of Healthy Palm Beaches, a Medicaid managed care plan.

In 2018 she produced the comprehensive trauma plan for Region 5 Central FL Regional Disaster Medical Coalition Trauma Agency which includes 9 counties, 6 trauma centers, 6 Freestanding EDs, 19 EMS agencies, 9 air medical service providers in various counties. The coalition is active today coordinating trauma care in Region 5.

With years of professional and business experience, Dr. Schwemmer will serve as Medical Director, consultant for ELITE Medical Response.