Dr. Paul Biddinger is Chief Preparedness and Continuity Officer at Mass General Brigham (MGB) and Chief of the Division of Emergency Preparedness in the Department of Emergency Medicine at MGB.
Dr. Biddinger has been an ACEP member since medical school in 1997 and has been a Fellow of the College since 2005. He has served for many years on the Disaster Preparedness and Response Committee and has been a member of the Massachusetts ACEP (MACEP) Chapter for more than 20 years. He received the Emergency Medicine Physician of the Year award from MACEP in 2021.
Dr. Biddinger holds the Ann L. Prestipino MPH Endowed Chair in Emergency Preparedness and is also Director of the Center for Disaster Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). Dr. Biddinger additionally serves as the Director of the Emergency Preparedness Research, Evaluation and Practice (EPREP) Program at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and holds appointments at Harvard Medical School and at the Chan School. Dr. Biddinger serves as a medical officer for the MA-1 Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT) in the National Disaster Medical System (NDMS) in the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Dr. Biddinger is an active researcher in the field of emergency preparedness and has lectured nationally and internationally on preparedness and disaster medicine. He has authored numerous articles and book chapters on disaster medicine and emergency medical operations and has responded to numerous prior disaster events, including Hurricane Katrina, Superstorm Sandy, the Boston Marathon bombings, the Nepal earthquakes, and many others.
