NASSAU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER’S GETACHEW FELEKE, MD, FACP INVITED TO MEET US PRESIDENT FOR WORLD AIDS DAY
East Meadow, New York….Getachew Feleke, MD, FACP, Chief of the Infectious Diseases division at Nassau University Medical Center (NUMC) was recently invited to Washington DC during World Aids Day to meet with President and Mrs. Bush.
Dr. Feleke has been Division Chief of Infectious Diseases since 1996. Born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, he obtained a British Counsel Scholarship to attend the General Wingate Boarding School, one of the best in the country, and graduated with distrinction. He then matriculated at Addis Ababa University Faculty of Medicine where he was a recipient of the Eno-Littman Scholarship from the German Cultural Institute. After graduating in 1975, he served as a practitioner and medical director at various hospitals in Ethiopia until 1983 when he began Internal Medicine training at McGill University’s Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal. In 1987 he began a fellowship in Infectious Diseases at NUMC where he has remained. Dr. Feleke is board certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, is certified as an HIV Specialist, has a Certificate of Knowledge in Tropical medicine and Travelers Health and is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at SUNY at Stony Brook. He has garnered many awards and honors and, most recently, was invited to Washington for World Aids Day with the President and First Lady in recognition of his volunteer work in Ethiopia. He is a project director of several grants at NUMC, leads the annual HIV Symposium, and is an active member of several major societies, including ACP, Society of America, International AIDS Society and others.
Getachew and his wife, Tsige Debassu, are the proud parents of three grown children. He is active in his church and community and enjoys travel, current affairs and reading. Getachew has been and is an esteemed member of the Department and the NUMC family for twenty years; we value his contributions to patient care and teaching.
