Miliard Derbew MD, FRCS, FCS, ECSA, FACS

Prof. Miliard Derbew is a professor of pediatrics surgery at the College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University. He is also a principal investigator for Medical Education Partnership Initiative Junior Faculty project for Ethiopia, MEPI-JF. Since 2015, he is the president of the College of Surgeons of East Central and Southern Africa (COSECSA). He was the principal investigator of the Medical Education Partnership (MEPI) project, a five years project which was a consortium of four medical schools in Ethiopia and five universities in the United States, focused on building institutional capacity.

Derbew has served as Chief Executive Director (with a rank of Vice President) in the College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University (2010- 2011) and was the Dean of the School of Medicine from 2007- 2010. He has also served as President of the Surgical Society of Ethiopia and a Vice president of COSECSA.

Derbew has published more than 50 peer-reviewed scientific articles in reputable journals and has made more than 25 presentations at different international conferences. He graduated from medical school and specialized in surgery from the School of Medicine, Addis Ababa University, and served his fellowship in pediatrics surgery at Tel Aviv University and University of Toronto Sickkids Hospital. Derbew is a founding fellow of the COSECSA and a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.