Meet The Team
Hailemichael Desalegn
Internist and Consultant Gastroenterologist
He is an Internist and Consultant Gastroenterologist with a rank of Professor in Internal Medicine at St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College in Addis Ababa. Currently, he is a post-doc student at Vestfold Hospital Norway. Over the past decade, his research interest has been mainly hepatitis B. He is a co-founder and board member of EtNoHep, and co-principal investigator of Hepatitis B research undertakings in Ethiopia funded by Imperial College, London and Norwegian Research Council. He is a member of HEPSANET, a scientific network of hepatitis B cohorts in Africa.
Hiwot Beyene (MD, MPH)
consultant internist
A consultant internist and currently an infectious disease fellow at Addis Ababa University College of health science. She is board member of EtNoHep, and collaborating researcher in Hepatitis B research undertakings in Ethiopia
Fikadu Girma Gudissa (MD, Assistant professor Medicine)
consultant internist and gastroenterologist
A consultant internist and gastroenterologist at Adama Hospital and Medical college. He is board member of EtNoHep and collaborating researcher in Hepatitis B research undertakings in Ethiopia.
Natanel Endeshaw (MD)
medical graduate
Natanel Endeshaw (MD) is a medical graduate from St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College, and currently working on his clinical oncology training at Addis Ababa University College of Health Science. His interest is in clinical research and genomic studies of Gastrointestinal cancers focusing on Hepatocellular cancer and Cholangiocarcinoma. He is the national coordinator of an outcome study on Hepatobiliary cancer and also a co-founder and board member of EtNoHep.