SRFTAC

Major Evan Baines is an Emergency Physician and U.S. Army officer currently training as a fellow in Emergency Medical Services and Disaster Medicine in the joint BAMC/UTHSCSA fellowship in San Antonio.

He began his military career by enlisting shortly after 9/11 and training as a Special Forces Medical Sergeant, a path that led him to medicine and ultimately to the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, where he graduated AOA and GHHS.

After completing Emergency Medicine residency at the Medical College of Georgia, he returned to the Special Forces community as a battalion surgeon and later joined the faculty at BAMC as director of the Emergency Medicine residency’s Military Unique Curriculum.

His experiences as a medic, supervising medics, and deploying to Iraq and Northwest Africa shaped his deep interest in prehospital medicine and his appreciation for the lifesaving potential of prehospital blood products.

Captain Alexander Bowers is an active-duty Air Force General Surgery resident at The University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, Texas.

He completed medical school at The University of Tennessee in Memphis, but his path in medicine began earlier as an enlisted Air Evacuation Medic in the United States Air Force, where he cared for wounded warriors moving from the Role 3 facility through transport home from Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany.

Those experiences gave him a deep appreciation for the complexity of the combat casualty care continuum and sparked his passion for trauma. He plans to pursue a career in trauma, critical care, and global surgery.

He believes SRFTAC can advance equitable, effective changes that strengthen the trauma care continuum and improve outcomes for vulnerable patients nationwide.

Captain Spencer Knierim is an Army Emergency Medicine physician who recently completed residency at Brooke Army Medical Center.

Before attending medical school at the University of Colorado, he worked in EMS at Denver Health, where he gained extensive hands-on experience in prehospital trauma care.

He has remained actively involved in prehospital trauma research, contributing to multiple TQIP studies, and is committed to improving trauma outcomes through data-driven approaches.

Hannah Borland was born into a military family and raised in San Antonio, where her interest in medicine began during a visit to the BAMC emergency department.

She later shadowed trauma surgeons at BAMC and was drawn to the collaboration, efficiency, and high-stakes environment of trauma care. She earned a degree in Psychology from Texas A&M in 2021.

During her gap year, she worked in a Dallas cardiothoracic operating room, confirming her ability to remain calm and effective during critical emergencies.

Now a medical student back in San Antonio, she was drawn to the South Texas whole blood program because its innovative approach to prehospital trauma care aligned with the experiences that first inspired her path into medicine.

Jamison Geracci is a former Army Infantry officer, rancher, wildland fire and search-and-rescue medic, and current medical school applicant.

He grew up around trauma care while his father served as an Army doctor, and that early exposure was reinforced during his own service as an Infantryman.

Prehospital whole blood programs helped keep his Soldiers alive and ultimately became a driving passion in his advocacy work.

He and his wife have also witnessed the consequences of poor access to lifesaving care in rural America, making expanded access to this level of trauma care a deeply personal mission.

Cory Lacek is a former Navy SEAL and Special Operations Combat Medic with eight years of experience delivering trauma care in austere and high-risk environments.

During his time in the SEAL Teams, he saw firsthand the impact that early access to whole blood could have on critically injured patients and helped develop protocols while training teammates to deliver transfusions in the field.

His experience also showed how logistics, training, and systems of care come together to determine outcomes.

His current focus is on strengthening prehospital trauma systems and expanding access to blood products for communities across the United States.