Academic Profiles
Gregory R. Ciottone
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Gregory R. Ciottone

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Health Policy and Management

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Overview

Dr. Ciottone is President of the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine, and an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is an Instructor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH), and the Founding Director of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Fellowship in Disaster Medicine. He also serves as the Director of Medical Preparedness for the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at Harvard University, a joint program of the HSPH and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

As a former member of the United States National Disaster Medical System, Dr. Ciottone was Commander of the Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT) Massachusetts-2, one of the first federal teams deployed into Ground Zero responding to the 9/11 attacks. He was also a Founding Member of the US Department of Homeland Security and has been a consultant to the White House Medical Unit for the past three administrations.

Dr Ciottone has practiced clinical Emergency Medicine for over 25 years and completed more than 500 missions as a flight physician on an aeromedical helicopter service. He has conducted educational programs in more than 30 countries around the world and has written over 150 scholarly works, including the first and second editions of the leading textbook “Ciottone’s Disaster Medicine”. The third edition will be released June 2023. He is the 2018 recipient of the American College of Emergency Physicians Disaster Medical Sciences Award, and the 2020 recipient of the American Academy of Disaster Medicine Distinguished Service Award.

Massachusetts Senate Official Citation for commanding DMAT MA-2 at Ground Zero on 9/11-26/2001
Massachusetts Senate

Commendation from DHHS Secretary Tommy Thompson for commanding DMAT MA-2 at Ground Zero 9/11-26/2001
Department of Health and Human Services

Visiting Professor, Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium2005-2009
Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium

Visiting Professor, Universita del Piemonte Orientale in Italy2005-2009
Universita del Piemonte Orientale in Italy

EMS Physician-Of-The-Year
Central Massachusetts Emergency Medical Services (EMS)

Consultant, White House Medical Unit2014-cont
White House Medical Unit

Fellow (FFSEM) of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI and RCPI)
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

American College of Emergency Physicians Disaster Medical Sciences Award
American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP)

President, World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WADEM)
World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WADEM)

American Academy of Disaster Medicine Distinguished Service Award
American Academy of Disaster Medicine (AADM)

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