Dr. Fadi Issa is the Director of Education for the Disaster Medicine Fellowship in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and an Instructor in Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School. His work centers on how hospitals and responders prepare for chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) events. He served as an evaluator for CBRN hospital assessments in Connecticut and Vermont, and his research covers decontamination, CBRNE response training for hospital staff, pediatric decontamination, stockpile planning for radiological and nuclear emergencies, and emerging threats such as illicit fentanyls used as mass casualty agents. He wrote the chapter on chemical and radiation decontamination for Ciottone's Disaster Medicine (3rd edition), served as a section editor for the book, and is an Associate Editor of Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness. For four years he directed WADEM's Special Interest Group in Counter-Terrorism Medicine, and he went on to serve on its Board of Directors from 2023 to 2025. He is a graduate of the Harvard/BIDMC Disaster Medicine Fellowship and holds the European Master in Disaster Medicine (EMDM). He has authored more than 50 peer-reviewed publications.