Director, Division of Disaster Medicine, BIDMC
Director, Disaster Medicine Fellowship Program, BIDMC
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Editor-in-Chief, Ciottone’s Disaster Medicine, 2nd Edition
Instructor, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
President, World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine

Dr. Ciottone has dedicated his career to the academic advancement of Disaster Medicine through a combination of field work, research, and scholarly activity. He has taught educational programs in Disaster Medicine and Emergency Management in over 30 countries around the world, and has consulted domestically for the US State Department, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice, and the White House Medical Unit. He has written over 100 scholarly works, including the first and second edition of the leading textbook in the field Ciottone’s Disaster Medicine, named in his honor, and in 2016 was recognized by the Physician to the President for “Outstanding achievement in support of the White House Medical Unit and the President of the United States.” Dr. Ciottone was the 2018 recipient of the Disaster Medical Sciences Award from the American College of Emergency Physicians, and in 2019 he was elected President of the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WADEM). He is also the 2020 recipient of the American Academy of Disaster Medicine Distinguished Service Award.

Dr. Ciottone’s clinical and field experience includes 25 years as a practicing emergency physician and over 500 missions as a flight physician on an aeromedical helicopter service. Early in his career he worked with the United States Agency for International Development to create and implement sustainable disaster medical education programs throughout the former Soviet Union that trained over 50,000 healthcare providers in Emergency Medical Services (EMS), Emergency Medicine, and Disaster Medicine. He later helped lead an International Atomic Energy Agency nuclear accident preparedness program for Eastern Europe. He also served as commander of one of the first federal disaster medical assistance teams (DMAT Massachuestts-2) into Ground Zero during the World Trade Center disaster on 9/11/2001, and has deployed to a number of other crises around the world, including the Haiti earthquake. Dr. Ciottone has held visiting professorship posts in Disaster Medicine at Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium and Universita del Piemonte Orientale in Italy.

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

Recent speaking engagements include:

2019

• Keynote Address, Disaster and Healthcare, International Conference on Disaster Medicine and Hurricane Resiliency, Caribbean Center for Disaster Medicine, American University of the Caribbean, St. Maarten 

• Opening Address as incoming President, World Association of Disaster and Emergency Medicine Biennial Conference, Brisbane Australia 

• Keynote Address, The Future of Terrorism, World Association of Disaster and Emergency Medicine Biennial Conference, Brisbane Australia 

• Invited Speaker, Telehealth Technology in Disasters for Enhanced Real Time Monitoring and Post-Acute Phase Response, World Association of Disaster and Emergency Medicine Biennial Conference, Brisbane Australia 

• Invited Lead Instructor, Chinese Disaster Medicine Training Program, sponsored by Tianjin University, held in Tianjin China 

• Keynote Address, Disasters and Healthcare, National Conference on Disaster and Emergency Medicine, Tianjin China 

• Invited Speaker, Counter-Terrorism Medicine, Tactical Trauma Conference -19, Sundsvall Sweden 

• Keynote Address, Medical Leadership in in the Management of Terrorist Events, 3rd Annual French American Conference on Emergency Medicine, Paris Descartes University - Université de Paris, France 

• Invited Speaker, Hurricane Response, 3rd Annual French American Conference on Emergency Medicine, Paris Descartes University - Université de Paris, France 

• Invited Lead Instructor, Chinese Disaster Medicine Training Program, sponsored by Tianjin University, held in Tianjin China 

• Keynote Address, Disaster Education and Research: A System of Centers of Excellence in Disaster Medicine International Congress on Disaster Medicine, University of Toulouse, Toulouse, France 

• Keynote Address, Mass Casualty Incidents: Preparedness and Response. The First International Conference for Disaster Medicine-2019 (ICDM-2019), The General Directorate of Emergencies, Disasters & Ambulance Services, Ministry of Health, Saudi Arabia 

• Invited Speaker, Crisis Leadership, The International Conference for Disaster Medicine-2019 (ICDM-2019), The General Directorate of Emergencies, Disasters & Ambulance Services, Ministry of Health, Saudi Arabia 

• Keynote Address, Health Security in Mass Gatherings: Better The Planning Than The Plan, 4th International Conference on Mass Gatherings Medicine sponsored by the Ministry of Health and under the patronage of the King, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

2020

• Keynote Address, Disaster and Healthcare, Jordanian Society of Emergency Medicine conference, Amman Jordan. Note: This presentation was scheduled, but then cancelled, because of a Covid-19 travel/meeting ban. 

• Keynote Address: Disaster Resiliency: Better the Planning Than the Plan, 2nd Annual International Conference on Disaster Medicine and Hurricane Resiliency, sponsored by the Caribbean Center for Disaster Medicine, Sint Maarten. Note: This presentation was scheduled, but then cancelled, because of a Covid-19 travel/meeting ban. 

• Invited Speaker, Crisis Leadership in Pandemics, COVID-19 workshop, Dubai Executive Counsel, United Arab Emirates. Note: This presentation was scheduled in-person, but then held virtually, because of a Covid-19 travel/meeting ban. 

• Invited Speaker, Crisis Leadership During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Crisis Leadership Workshop for the United Arab Emirates Ministry of Health, UAE. Note: This presentation was scheduled in-person, but then held virtually, because of a Covid-19 travel/meeting ban. 

• Invited Speaker, Covid: The Path to Recovery. 3rd International Red Sea Emergency Medicine Conference, Jeddah Saudi Arabia. Note: This presentation was scheduled in-person, but then held virtually, because of a Covid-19 travel/meeting ban. 

• Keynote Address and Conference Co-Chairman, World Intelligent Medicine Congress (artificial intelligence), Tianjin China. Note: This presentation was scheduled in-person, but then held virtually, because of a Covid-19 travel/meeting ban. 

• Invited Speaker, Crisis Standards of Care and Ethical Dilemmas: A Global Perspective. All Levels Trauma Care Conference, Riyadh Saudi Arabia. Note: This presentation was scheduled in-person, but then held virtually, because of a Covid-19 travel/meeting ban. 

• Invited Speaker, Disaster Medicine During the Covid Pandemic, Chinese Medical Doctors Association Annual conference (the largest physician association in China with 4.4 million members). Shanghai China. Note: This presentation was scheduled in-person, but then held virtually, because of a Covid-19 travel/meeting ban. 

• Keynote Address, Chinese Medical Doctors Association Annual conference (the largest physician association in China with 4.4 million members). Shanghai China. Note: This presentation was scheduled in-person, but then held virtually, because of a Covid-19 travel/meeting ban. 

• Lead Presenter, Healthcare Crisis Response in Asymmetric Warfare, Presented to the Ministry of Health, Yerevan Armenia. Note: This presentation was scheduled in-person, but then held virtually, because of a Covid-19 travel/meeting ban. 

• Invited Speaker, Covid-19: The Path to Recovery, Jordanian Ministry of Health Conference on the Covid-a9 Pandemic. Amman Jordan. Note: This presentation was scheduled in-person, but then held virtually, because of a Covid-19 travel/meeting ban. 

• Keynote Address, 10th Annual Conference of The Indonesia Section of The International College of Surgeons. Surabaya, Indonesia. Note: This presentation was scheduled in-person, but then held virtually, because of a Covid-19 travel/meeting ban. 

2021

• Keynote Address, Crisis Leadership and Pandemic Resiliency: Better the Planning Than the Plan, Critical Care Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic conference, Riyadh Saud Arabia. Note: This presentation was scheduled in-person, but then held virtually, because of a Covid-19 travel/meeting ban. 

• Moderator and Invited Speaker, Covid-19: The Generational Crisis?. Canadian Association of Emergency Medicine Webinar: COVID: Personal Impacts and Thinking About The Global Team. Note: This presentation was scheduled in-person, but then held virtually, because of a Covid-19 travel/meeting ban. 

• Invited Speaker, Monthly meeting of the Oxford University Disaster and Conflict Medicine Society, Oxford United Kingdom. Note: This presentation was scheduled in-person, but then held virtually, because of a Covid-19 travel/meeting ban. 

• Opening Address, World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine Conference. Note: This presentation was scheduled in-person, but then held virtually, because of a Covid-19 travel/meeting ban. 

• Featured Speaker, Chemical Weapons and Terror in the 21st Century: What Are we Learning. World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine Conference. Note: This presentation was scheduled in-person, but then held virtually, because of a Covid-19 travel/meeting ban.

• Featured Speaker, A Call to Leadership: Complexity in Global Health. World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine Conference. Note: This presentation was scheduled in-person, but then held virtually, because of a Covid-19 travel/meeting ban. 

• Invited Speaker, Training and Education in Disaster Medicine. World Humanitarian Forum, London, UK. Note: This presentation was scheduled in-person, but then held virtually, because of a Covid-19 travel/meeting ban. 

• Featured Speaker, Plenary Debate between “Scoop and Run” and “Stay and Play” in EMS. International Conference on Emergency Medicine-2021. Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Note: This presentation was scheduled in-person, but then held virtually, because of a Covid-19 travel/meeting ban. 

• Invited Speaker, Recognition and Treatment of Chemical Weapons Attacks. Summary of Medical Practice in Artsakh War 2020. Yerevan, Armenia. Note: This presentation was scheduled in-person, but then held virtually, because of a Covid-19 travel/meeting ban. 

• Featured Speaker, Building Back Better, 2021 International Conference on Disaster Medicine, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Note: This presentation was scheduled in-person, but then held virtually, because of a Covid-19 travel/meeting ban.