welcome Mark X. Cicero MD, FAAP, FAEMS, as their Medical Officer/Physician. Dr. Cicero will provide pediatric emergency care guidance and support to the Emergency Medical Services for Children (EMSC) Branch.    

Dr. Mark Cicero is triple boarded in pediatrics, pediatric emergency medicine, and emergency medical services (EMS). He is an EMS physician, a Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine (PEM) at Yale University School of Medicine and Attending Physician at Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital.  Dr. Cicero has served as the chair of the pediatrics committee of the National Association of EMS Physicians, as the medical officer for the Health Resources and Services Administration Pediatric Pandemic Network Collaborative, served as a member of the National Biodefense Science Board, and the National Advisory Committee on Children and Disasters.

Mark has developed a curriculum for prehospital care providers and students across three Southern New England states; worked to bolster Connecticut’s level of preparedness for disasters involving children; and evaluated tabletop exercises that brought together prehospital emergency medical services practitioners with community hospitals to simulate everyday emergency response, to include disaster response.  Dr. Cicero has designed experiential and didactic curricula in pediatric disaster medicine and has numerous publications about pediatric triage and prehospital response. He also led the project, Pediatric Emergency Care Coordination in EMS Agencies: Measuring the Influence, Magnifying the Improvement, as well as a project that aims to improve access to care for children with mild traumatic brain injury via community paramedicine interventions.

At home, he’s always learning from his wife, Valerie, an art professor and practicing artist, he tries to keep up with his five children, and he runs in the woods with his Australian Shepherd, Rhubarb.