Gregory R. Ciottone

Gregory R. Ciottone (born 1965) is an American physician specializing in Disaster Medicine and Counter-Terrorism Medicine. He is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the founding director of the BIDMC Fellowship in Disaster Medicine, the first of its kind in a Harvard teaching hospital. He also serves as a consultant to the White House Medical Unit for the Obama and Trump administrations.

Biography[edit]

Born in Washington, DC, Greg earned his BA in Biology and Chemistry in 1987 at Colby College, where he graduated Phi Bet Kappa, and obtained his MD in 1991 at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, earning the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine Excellence in Emergency Medicine Award. He stayed at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center to complete his residency in Emergency Medicine, and was named Chief Resident by the faculty. He then remained on the faculty until 1999, rising to Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and directing the International Disaster and Emergency Medicine division while there.

In 2000, Greg accepted a position in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center as the Director of the Division of Disaster Medicine. He has served as Chair of the Disaster Medicine Section within the division of Emergency Medicine at HMS, and as Medical Director of Emergency Management for Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Greg founded the BIDMC Fellowship in Disaster Medicine in 2007, which has grown to become the largest Disaster Medicine fellowship program in the United States, and rose to the level of Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School in 2014.

Career[edit]

Greg’s research and career interests have been in the area of Disaster Medicine, both in the United States and around the world.He has served as a consultant in more than 30 countries, including work he did to establish 16 Disaster and Emergency Medicine training centers throughout the former Soviet Union in the 1990s.^[1] He also served as the Commander of the Disaster Medical Assistance Team, Massachusetts 2 (DMAT MA-2)^[2] leading it as one of the first federal teams into Ground Zero on 9/11/2001.^[3] In 2006, Dr. Ciottone became Editor-in Chief of Disaster Medicine,^[4] later renamed Ciottone’s Disaster Medicine^[5] for the second edition, released in 2016 and deemed “The leading textbook in the field” by the prestigious journal Annals of Emergency Medicine.^[6] In addition to his textbook, he has written over 100 scholarly articles, chapters, and educational materials.

In recent years, Ciottone has played a leading role in establishing a new area of concentration he named Counter-Terrorism Medicine (CTM)^[7][8] His work in CTM is designed to create more proactive processes in the areas of mitigation, preparedness, and response to asymmetric terrorist attacks, giving healthcare a seat at the counter-terrorism table. He is considered a pioneer in this field, with the World Association of Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WADEM) naming him the Director of their new Special Interest Group: Counter-Terrorism Medicine.

Ciottone continues advancing the fields of Disaster Medicine and Counter-Terrorism Medicine through his research, teaching, lecturing, and consulting. He has served as subject matter expert for CNN,^[9] SKY news,^[10] ABC,^[11] and other major news outlets, and has given the Keynote Address or Featured Speaker presentation at numerous international conferences.^[12][13][14] In his work as consultant to the White House Medical Unit, he was recently recognized for "Outstanding Achievement in Support of The White House Medical Unit and the President of the United States"^[15]

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