Schafer is currently the CEO of the OnKai Health Foundation. She was previously the President & CEO of the Nevada Health & Bioscience Asset Corporation (NHBC) whose focus is to build health capital, research and programmatic infrastructure for the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV and the Southern Nevada community. She led the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV as its founding Chief of Staff in 2014 to launch Las Vegas’s first four-year public allopathic School of Medicine which grew to nearly 400 physicians under a $160 million budget. Schafer also led the expansion and operations of the Cleveland Clinic Nevada and its flagship operation, the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health focusing on the treatment and research of neurodegenerative disorders after leading the Las Vegas-based non-profit Keep Memory Alive (KMA) merger with the Cleveland Clinic as its Chief Executive Officer. She also leads a Nevada-based CEO group, the Council for a Better Nevada (CBN) as its Executive director whose work is dedicated to impacting statewide public policy to improve quality of life issues for all Nevadans. She is a director on the boards of Blueprint Sports, the premier NIL company in the sports space, the Able Channel, Inc., a digital streaming healthcare platform and a member of Centene’s Nevada Silver Summit Board of Directors.
Ms. Schafer participates in various community & social board engagements. Current board affiliations include the Stanford Center for Longevity, Conservation International Leadership Council, the Nevada Governor’s Board on Workforce Development and Capability Health. Past board engagements include building the US Olympic Committee’s Center for Safe Sport, as a founding Commissioner on the Nevada Commission on Homeland Security and as Chairman of the Nevada Community Foundation, where the Foundation’s endowment grew from $13 million to $150 million under her leadership.
Ms. Schafer holds a BS and an MBA from the George Washington University. (GWU) She has an MLA in Government from HarvaMore...