Dr. Temesgen Beyene (MD) is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Consultant in Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the College of Health Sciences, Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital, and Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. He is an international fellow at Institute for Healthcare Improvement focused on Quality, Process Improvement, and Safety of Patients through POCUS utilization. He is the current POCUS lead at his department establishing first ever East African POCUS fellowship training through his existing POCUS collaboration from Toronto Addis Ababa Academic
Collaboration in Emergency Medicine.
He was the recipient of Developing Countries POCUS Educator Scholar from Emergency Medicine Ultrasound Groups of Australia and trained on Advanced Emergency Medicine Ultrasound course. He worked as a postgraduate director at the Department of Emergency Medicine from 2018 to 2022 transitioning to chair his department. He finished the Ultrasound Leadership Academy Fellowship with Honors in EM Ultrasound under Ultrasound Leadership Academy.
He has been teaching POCUS to both undergraduate and postgraduate medical students since 2018. He has organized POCUS workshops in contextualized echo-guided life support, upper airway POCUS ultrasound, and critical care cardiac ultrasound in Ethiopia through his department and the Ethiopian Society of Emergency Professionals. His work focuses on teaching, clinical care, and clinical research.
He is professionally certified by Harvard Medical School in the Global Clinical Scholars Research Training Program Clinical Trial Concentration in 2017. He is an academician, leader, and advocate of emergency and critical care in treating patients at Tikur Anbessa Specialized Teaching Hospital (the largest tertiary care hospital in Ethiopia). He has extensive experience in international conference presentations, chairing conferences, moderating sessions and peer-reviewed publications.
Currently he is very passionate in spreading POCUS teaching anywhere to anyone at any time.