Education
In the late 1970s, Gewirtz was a Radiological Defense Officer and attended the Defense Civil Preparedness Agency (DCPA) Staff College. The DCPA was originally part of the United States Department of Defense and became part of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in 1979. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1982, where he graduated with distinction. He was in the Ph.D. program at the University of California, Berkeley and was awarded a jure dignitatis Ph.D. by the University of Kent.
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