At-Large Director (Position 3)

Col. Audra L. Taylor, MS, SBB (ASCP), U.S. Army retired, is the chief operating officer of South Texas Blood & Tissue and senior vice president of BioBridge Global.

Taylor began her military career with a four-year Army ROTC scholarship at Howard University, earning her bachelor's degree in medical technology. She was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the United States Army Medical Service Corps and served as a platoon leader with the 16th Medical Logistics Battalion at Camp Carroll, South Korea.

Taylor later earned a master's degree in health sciences from George Washington University and achieved her Specialist in Blood Banking (SBB) certification. Since then, she has served in several roles, including quality assurance officer, laboratory manager, chief of blood services, commander, director of the Department of Defense consolidated Army/Navy Medical Laboratory Technician Program, officer of the Joint Blood Program, and director of the Army Blood Program at the U.S. Army Medical Command. In 2022, Taylor completed her military career as the chief of the Armed Services Blood Program Division at the Defense Health Agency.

A longtime AABB member, Taylor serves as an AABB assessor, a member of the AABB Awards Committee, member of the Standards Program Committee and chair of the Emergency Prehospital and Scheduled Out-of-Hospital Standards Committee.