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Gregory R. Ciottone
Born (1965-07-16) July 16, 1965 (age 59)
Washington, DC
EducationUniversity of Massachusetts Medical School
Alma materColby College, St. Mark's School
Occupation(s)Emergency Physician and Professor
Known forCommander of one of the first federal disaster teams deployed to Ground Zero on 9/11/2001
Notable workCiottone's Disaster Medicine, 2nd ed., Toxidrome Recognition in Chemical Weapons Attacks New England Journal of Medicine

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. As well, he holds the position of director for medical preparedness at the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative, a joint program of the Harvard T.H.Chan School of Public Health and the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard John F. Kennedy School of Government.[1] He also serves as a consultant to the White House Medical Unit for the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations. In 2019 he was elected president of the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine.[2] (WADEM).

Biography

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Born in Washington, D.C., and residing in Westminster, Massachusetts, Ciottone attended St. Mark's School in Massachusetts for secondary school and went on to earn his BA in biology and chemistry in 1987 at Colby College, where he graduated Phi Bet Kappa. He then received his MD degree from the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) in 1991, receiving the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine Award for Excellence in Emergency Medicine. He completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at UMMS in 1994 and was selected as chief resident. He continued on at that institution, being appointed instructor of medicine in 1994, and later assistant professor of emergency medicine at UMMS, where he also served as director of the Institute for Disaster and Emergency Medicine, and then director of the Division of International Disaster and Emergency Medicine.[3] In 1995 Dr. Ciottone was selected to lead the Washington DC-based American International Health Alliance (AIHA) Emergency Medicine Task Force for the former Soviet Union.[4] He served as co-director of the EMS/Disaster Medicine Fellowship program at UMMS, and in 1998 was appointed a Disaster Medicine Fellowship Director for the International Atomic Energy Agency in Geneva Switzerland.[5] In 1999 he was selected as Director of the University of Massachusetts-Minsk Belarus Medical Partnership program by AIHA.[6]

In January 2001 Ciottone was appointed director of the Division of International Disaster and Emergency Medicine in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He went on to become the chairman of the International Emergency Medicine Section, Division of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School from 2002 to 2007, and was named chairman of the Disaster Medicine Section at HMS in 2007. Also in 2007, he founded the BIDMC Fellowship in Disaster Medicine.[7] He rose to the level of Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School in 2014.[8]

Career

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Ciottone's research and career interests have been in the area of Disaster Medicine. He has served as a consultant in more than 30 countries, including establishing 16 Disaster and Emergency Medicine training centers throughout the former Soviet Union in the 1990s.[9] He also served as the Commander of the Disaster Medical Assistance Team, Massachusetts 2 (DMAT MA-2)[10] leading it as one of the first federal teams into Ground Zero on 9/11/2001.[11] In 2006, Dr. Ciottone became Editor-in Chief of Disaster Medicine,[12] later renamed Ciottone’s Disaster Medicine[13] for the second edition, which was released in 2016 and deemed “The leading textbook in the field” by the journal Annals of Emergency Medicine.[14] Through his textbook, Ciottone first suggested the requirement that Emergency Management be a part of the knowledge base necessary for the practice of Disaster Medicine, something that is commonly accepted today.[15] 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 Initiative he named Counter-Terrorism Medicine (CTM), publishing over 30 peer-reviews articles on the subject.[16] Focusing on mitigation, preparedness, and response to asymmetric terrorist attacks. In 2017, the World Association of Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WADEM) named him the Director of their new Special Interest Group: Counter-Terrorism Medicine.

Ciottone has served as subject matter expert for CNN,[17] SKY news,[18] ABC,[19] and other major news outlets, and has given the Keynote Address or Featured Speaker presentation at numerous international conferences.[20][21][22] He was recognized for "Outstanding Achievement in Support of The White House Medical Unit and the President of the United States",[23] and has been inducted as an honorary fellow into the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. He was also the 2018 recipient of the Disaster Medical Sciences award from the American College of Emergency Physicians.[24] In 2020 he won the Distinguished Service Award from the American Academy of Disaster Medicine.[25]

References

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  1. ^ Leadership and Staff Archived 2018-03-27 at the Wayback Machine Harvard University Retrieved 2019-06-12.
  2. ^ "The World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WADEM)". Retrieved 3 July 2019.
  3. ^ "Vibe publication of University of Massachusetts Medical school" (PDF). Retrieved 3 July 2019.
  4. ^ "AIHA Directions" (PDF).
  5. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-07-26. Retrieved 2017-09-09.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. ^ Gregory R. Ciottone; Andrew Old; Sarah Nicholas; Philip D. Anderson (2005). "Implementation of an emergency and disaster medical response training network in the Commonwealth of Independent States". The Journal of Emergency Medicine. 29 (2): 221–229. doi:10.1016/j.jemermed.2005.01.023. ISSN 0736-4679. PMID 16029838.
  7. ^ "FIDM". FIDM.
  8. ^ "Gregory R. Ciottone | Harvard Humanitarian Initiative". Archived from the original on 2017-09-09. Retrieved 2017-09-09.
  9. ^ Ciottone, Gregory R.; Old, Andrew; Nicholas, Sarah; Anderson, Philip D. (August 2005). "Implementation of an emergency and disaster medical response training network in the Commonwealth of Independent States". The Journal of Emergency Medicine. 29 (2): 221–229. doi:10.1016/j.jemermed.2005.01.023. ISSN 0736-4679. PMID 16029838.
  10. ^ "Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT MA-2) - Department of Emergency Medicine - UMass Medical School | Worcester". University of Massachusetts Medical School. April 2014. Retrieved 2017-08-09.
  11. ^ "Boston.com / Sept. 11". archive.boston.com. Retrieved 2019-06-12.
  12. ^ Ciottone, Gregory R. (2006). Disaster medicine (1st ed.). Philadelphia: Elsevier Mosby. ISBN 9780323032537. OCLC 324993205.
  13. ^ Ciottone, Gregory R.; Biddinger, Paul D.; Darling, Robert G.; Fares, Saleh; Keim, Mark E.; Molloy, Michael S. (2015-11-05). Ciottone's disaster medicine (Second ed.). Philadelphia, PA. ISBN 9780323286657. OCLC 927102597.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  14. ^ Morris, Stephen C. (2016). "Ciottone's Disaster Medicine, 2nd Edition". Annals of Emergency Medicine. 67 (6): 797. doi:10.1016/j.annemergmed.2016.02.030.
  15. ^ Gregory R. Ciottone (2006). Disaster Medicine (3rd ed.). Mosby Elsevier. p. xxv. ISBN 0323032532.
  16. ^ "Gregory Ciottone ORCID ID". ORCID. July 6, 2022. Retrieved July 6, 2022.
  17. ^ Do quarantines work? - CNN Video, 30 October 2014, retrieved 2019-06-12
  18. ^ "Allerta Zika, defezioni eccellenti per rischi contagio | Video Sky - Sky TG24 HD". video.sky.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2019-06-12.
  19. ^ "Dr. Ciottone on ABC News for the innovative telemedicine technology being implemented in Haiti". BIDMC Fellowship in Disaster Medicine. January 5, 2013. Archived from the original on 2017-08-10. Retrieved 2017-08-09.
  20. ^ WADEM (May 1, 2021). "WADEM Forum Response, Resilience, & Reset". WADEM. Retrieved July 6, 2022.
  21. ^ ICDM (October 1, 2021). "International Conference for Disaster Medicine". ICDM. Retrieved July 6, 2022.
  22. ^ Breaking Latest News (May 14, 2022). "The European Master in Disaster Medicine is Back". Breaking Latest News. Retrieved July 6, 2022.
  23. ^ "Gregory R. Ciottone, MD, FACEP, FFSEM". Retrieved 2019-06-12.
  24. ^ "American College of Emergency Physicians". www.acep.org.
  25. ^ "American Academy of Disaster Medicine Awards AADM Distinguished Service Award to Gregory Ciottone, MD, FACEP, FFSEM". PRWeb. Retrieved 2020-08-10.
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