Cheryl Schmidt

Cheryl Schmidt is a clinical professor in the College of Nursing and Health Innovation at Arizona State University. Her research interests include disaster preparedness of nursing students. A national study explored levels of preparedness, which revealed lack of preparedness, leading to increased emphasis on this topic at the National Student Nurses' Association. She co-authored the American Red Cross "Disaster Health and Sheltering" course, which has preparedmore than 6,000 students throughout the U.S. to serve as volunteers in Red Cross disaster shelters.

Professor Schmidt also serves as a member of the Research Committee of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Emergency Management Evaluation Center (VEMEC). The purpose of VEMEC is to "develop a vision for the future of disaster nursing; identify barriers and facilitators to achieving this vision; and, develop recommendations for nursing practice, education, policy and research."