One Year Later

Remembering the Events of April 2013

While the tragedies of April 15 and April 18, 2013, are forever etched into the minds of the greater Boston and MIT communities, 46 participants in the MIT Professional Education course, Crisis Management and Business Continuity, had the opportunity to hear first-hand accounts of the events on Boylston Street and MIT’s campus from several key responding organizations, news outlets, an MIT alumnus, and several others on July 18, 2013 at the Stata Center.

The panel, titled “The Boston Marathon bombings: Exemplary Response Amid Horror,” was moderated by WBUR’s Deborah Becker, and included Edward Davis, Boston Police commissioner; James Hooley, chief of Boston EMS; Dr. Paul Biddinger, chief, Division of Emergency Preparedness, medical director, Emergency Department Operations, Massachusetts General Hospital; Imad Mouline, SB ’91, CTO, Everbridge, a Mass and Emergency Notification software company; Joe Sciacca, editor-in-chief of the Boston Herald; and Peter Casey, programming and news director, WBZ radio. William VanSchalkwyk, managing director, Environment, Health, and Safety Headquarters Office, MIT; and Helen Privett, business continuity manager at GMO, were also on hand.