American Hospital Management Company Appoints Gregory Ciottone, MD as Chief Medic...(ociety of Academic Emergency Medicine E...),Health

Date:7/14/2008

ociety of Academic Emergency Medicine "Excellence in Emergency Medicine" award. He completed his Emergency Medicine Residency at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center and was selected by the faculty and his peers as Chief Resident. Upon completion of residency, Dr. Ciottone was named to the University of Massachusetts faculty where he rose to the level of Assistant Professor before being asked to join the faculty at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Ciottone has served as Commander of the federal Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT) Massachusetts-2, a Level-1 response team of the National Disaster Medical System, U.S. Department of Homeland Security. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the textbook "Disaster Medicine", published by Elsevier/Mosby in 2006. He is a nationally and internationally known expert in Emergency Management, and has extensive field experience, including 10 years as a Flight Physician for a LifeFlight rescue helicopter system. In 2007 he was named "EMS Physician of the Year" by Central Massachusetts EMS.

Since 1993 Dr. Ciottone has taught throughout Europe and the former Soviet Union where he played a key role in the development of 22 Emergency Medicine training centers, sponsored by the American International Health Alliance (AIHA) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). His division has developed curricula in various areas of Emergency Medicine that have been used to instruct over 40,000 medical and non-medical personnel around the world. In 2004, Dr. Ciottone was one of only two Americans appointed to the faculty of the prestigious European Master in Disaster Medicine.

Through his role as Commander of the DMAT Massachusetts-2, Dr. Ciottone led this level-1 federal disaster response team on numerous deployments, the most notable of which was the World Trade Center response on September 11, 2001, where his was one of the first federal disaster teams into Ground Zero. Remaining on site for 2 weeks
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