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Our Leadership
Robert Macy, Ph.D. - Executive Director
Robert Macy is Co-Director of the Division of Disaster Resilience at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He is a Harvard Medical School Instructor, a Research Fellow in Psychology in the Developmental Psychology and Psychopathology Program at McLean’s Hospital and a Adjunct Faculty in Counseling Psychology Graduate School Programs at Lesley University.
Robert Macy is the Co-Founder and Director of the Intentional Center for Disaster Resilience, the Founder and Executive of the Boston Childrens Foundation (501C3) in Boston, MA, and the former Co-Director of a National Center for Child Traumatic Stress Network-Category III site in Boston and a former Co-Chair of the National Center for Child Traumatic Stress Network-Terrorism and Disaster Branch. Macy continues to consult to the National Center for Child Traumatic Stress Network-Terrorism and Disaster Branch and serves as Core Faculty for the National Center for Child Traumatic Stress Network-Psychological First Aid Learning Community.
Robert Macy is a pioneer in the field of Traumatic Incident Stress Interventions, public health-mental health psychosocial intervention and research and violence prevention initiatives for children, youth, their families and their communities exposed to traumatic events including large-scale disasters, terrorist events, and political, community, armed conflict violence and transgenerational impoverishment. During the last 19 years Macy has designed, and implements and evaluates traumatic stress reduction programs, and psychosocial assessment and intervention projects in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Africa.
Dicki Johnson Macy, Ed. M., LMHC, ADTR - Director
Dicki J. Macy is the Director of the Boston Childrens Foundation, and the Founder and Director of Rainbowdance, an evidence-based early intervention program of the Boston Childrens Foundation. Dicki remains a tireless and dedicated pioneer in the field of trauma focused stabilization and resiliency programs for young children and their communities exposed to traumatic events including large-scale disasters, terrorist events, and political, community, armed conflict violence and transgenerational impoverishment. During the last 25 years Dicki has designed, and implements and evaluates early intervention traumatic stress reduction and resiliency building programs in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Africa.
Gregory R. Ciottone, MD, FACEP - Medical Director
Dr. Ciottone is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, where he serves as the Chair of the Disaster Medicine Section. Dr. Ciottone works clinically in the Emergency Department at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and serves as the the Director of the Division of Disaster Medicine for the hospital.
Dr. Ciottone 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. 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 was the World Trade Center response on September 11, 2001, where his was one of the first federal disaster teams into Ground Zero. Dr. Ciottone won an Official Citation from the Massachusetts Senate for his work at Ground Zero. Today, he remains an integral part of the American counter-terrorism disaster preparedness program and has served as a Disaster Management Fellowship Director for the International Atomic Energy Agency and as the Medical Director for the Tactical EMS Training Program for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA Academy) in Quantico Virginia. He is a consultant to the federal project “ER-One” in Washington D.C. creating the disaster-ready hospital of the future.
Since 1993 Dr. Ciottone has taught throughout Europe and the former Soviet Union where he played a key role in the development of 22 Disaster and Emergency Medicine training centers, sponsored by the American International Health Alliance (AIHA) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
In 2001, Dr. Ciottone became an Implementing Partner of the United Nations Disaster Management Training Program. Through this role Dr. Ciottone became an Editor for the UN training module “Disaster Management for Terrorist Events.” Currently in production, this manual will be used by the United Nations to train personnel worldwide on the preparedness for and response to terrorist attacks. In 2004, Dr. Ciottone was one of only two Americans appointed to the faculty of the prestigious European Master in Disaster Medicine.
Dr. Ciottone is the Editor-in-Chief of the textbook “Disaster Medicine”, published by Elsevier/Mosby in 2006.
Tyler Seever - Chief Operating Officer
In his role as COO of Boston Children's Foundation, Tyler provides operational support to various agencies and organizes a number of initiatives designed to utilize the expertise of BCF in efforts to develop and evaluate our acute trauma and resiliency interventions.