AFTER LEADING THE OPERATIONS FOR MASSACHUSETTS MASS-VACCINATION EFFORTS, DMSE SPORTS WILL RETURN TO GILLETTE STADIUM AND FENWAY PARK TO DIRECT ROAD RACES

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Boston — DMSE Sports, which has managed and produced more than 1,400 mass-participatory events over the past 40 years, will be back at Gillette Stadium and Patriot Place to manage the Harvard Pilgrim Finish at the 50 5K and at Fenway Park for the Run to Home Base. This is a change of mission at these sites for the event management team—they spent the first six months of 2021 at these facilities, leading the operations and logistics for administering 1.3 million vaccination shots.

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- Matt West, CEO of DSME Sports, on the closing of the mass vaccination site at Gillette (40:36)

FROM VENUE TO VACCINATION SITE: 'IT'S THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENT WE COULD EVER HOST'

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Like many event pros, in March 2020 Dave McGillivray was facing a career crisis. Because of the abrupt shutdown of events due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the owner of Boston-based, 40-year-old event management company DMSE Sports—which has managed more than 1,400 events including the Boston Marathon, the Goodwill Games, the U.S. Women’s Olympic Marathon Trials, and many more race-related events—was forced to pivot.

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Boomer says the "vaccine race" is in good hands with Dave McGillivray.

INSIDE BOSTON'S MAJOR LEAGUE VACCINE ROLLOUT

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In the past week, the U.S. reached an average of 2 million Covid-19 vaccine doses administered daily. That’s about 25 doses per 100 people since the beginning of the vaccination campaign mid-December, according to Bloomberg estimates.

DMSE SPORTS TAPPED BY CIC HEALTH TO OVERSEE LOGISTICS AT MASS VACCINATION SITES GILLETTE STADIUM AND FENWAY PARK

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DMSE Sports, the event management team that has managed and produced more than 1,400 mass participatory events over the past 40 years announced they have been recruited by CIC Health, a Cambridge-based health tech company, to oversee the on-site vaccine operations and logistics management at two of the state’s mass vaccination sites: Gillette Stadium and Fenway Park.

AT GILLETTE, VACCINATION EXPERIENCE HAS PLENTY OF FANS

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On a sunny but cold Thursday, Francis and Theresa Lipari sounded like they had just won the lottery.

In a way, they had.

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VIDEO: MASS VACCINATIONS — HOW STADIUMS HOST A COVID DEFENSIVE PLAY

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Gillette Stadium near Boston is not hosting a football game today. But instead of shots at the end-zone, the action here is getting shots into arms.

HE'S PLANNED HUNDREDS OF RUNS. NOW DAVE MCGILLIVRAY IS ORCHESTRATING THE RACE TO DELIVER THE COVID-19 VACCINE

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Dave McGillivray has done a lot of things most people haven’t. His website lists an absurd collection of running achievements: 158 total marathons, 120 miles in 24 hours, even an 80-day-long journey from Medford, Ore. to Medford, Mass., all while raising millions for charity.

BOSTON MARATHON RACE DIRECTOR RECRUITED TO HELP WITH COVID-19 VACCINE ROLLOUT

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Boston Marathon race director Dave McGillivray has been recruited by the state of Massachusetts to facilitate the COVID-19 vaccine rollout in Boston. McGillivray, who has been the Boston RD for 20 years and working with the storied event for more than 30, is one of many event organizers across the U.S. who have been enlisted to help with vaccine plans.

VIDEO: VACCINATIONS AT FENWAY AND GILLETTE PROMISE RAMPED-UP OPERATIONS IN COMING WEEKS

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Massachusetts opened its third mass vaccination site today at Fenway Park, in addition to ones already up and running at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough and the Eastfield Mall in Springfield. The operations at the two sports centers are being run by Cambridge tech company CIC Health, which aims to offer 1,250 shots per day at Fenway and 5,000 per day at Gillette in the coming weeks. Rodrigo Martinez, the chief marketing officer of CIC Health, discussed how it all came together and what people should expect if they visit either site.

AUDIO: DAVE MCGILLIVRAY—BOSTON MARATHON TO COVID VACCINATION

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Today we chat with our old friend, director of the Boston Marathon, Dave McGillivray. He is a case study in resilience and the power of a positive attitude. This pandemic knocked his business of race directing right out from under him. He had to pivot. And he did. He’s now running the vaccinations at Fenway and Gillette stadium.

BOSTON MARATHON DIRECTOR TAPPED FOR FENWAY PARK, GILLETTE STADIUM MASS VACCINATION SITES

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Dave McGillivray, the race director of the Boston Marathon, has been selected by the state of Massachusetts to run the mass vaccination operations at Gillette Stadium and Fenway Park.

VIDEO: BOSTON MARATHON RACE DIRECTOR HIRED TO HELP RUN MASS COVID-19 VACCINATION SITES

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The race director of the Boston Marathon has pivoted his business to help bring an end to the COVID-19 pandemic, and thus save his industry.

PANDEMIC HELP WANTED: FAST FOOD MANAGERS AND ROAD RACE EXPERTS

A year into the coronavirus pandemic, Americans are painfully aware that overcoming the scourge is a marathon, not a sprint.

AUDIO: MASS VACCINATION SITE PARTIALLY OPENS AT FENWAY PARK; ANOTHER GAINS MOMENTUM AT GILLETTE STADIUM

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This week, Fenway Park became more than just a place to cheer on the Red Sox with a soft pretzel.

The park had a soft opening as the state's second mass vaccination site. Starting next week, the site plans to be vaccinating upwards of 1,500 people each day, to start.

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HOW BOSTON MARATHON RACE DIRECTOR DAVE MCGILLIVRAY AND HIS TEAM ARE AIDING VACCINE EFFORTS

RUNNERS WORLD

When it comes to planning a road race, whether a major marathon or a smaller scale event, each one requires essentially the same thing: moving a large group of people across a small course and to a finish line as efficiently and safely as possible.

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SEVEN MONTHS AGO CIC HEALTH DIDN'T EXIST. TODAY IT'S RUNNING THE STATE'S MASS-VACCINATION EFFORT

BOSTON GLOBE

Tim Rowe started getting nervous last February.

The founder and chief executive of the Cambridge Innovation Center, a co-working company, had heard from CIC’s Tokyo office about the emergence of a novel coronavirus.

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A DIFFERENT KIND OF RACE: BOSTON MARATHON DIRECTOR HELPS ORGANIZE MASS VACCINATION SITES

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Long-time Boston Marathon Race Director Dave McGillivray is running logistics for a different type of race these days. The 66-year-old marathoner is now running against the clock in the fight to end the coronavirus pandemic.

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MASSACHUSETTS TO OPEN FIRST MASS VACCINATION SITE AT GILLETTE ON THURSDAY

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Gillette Stadium will become the state’s first mass injection site when it opens on Thursday, laying out a game plan to massively scale-up a coronavirus vaccine rollout that has so far been “bumpy” and slow as cases continue to surge.

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