Minyahil Woldu

NAME: MINYAHIL ALEBACHEW WOLDU eRA COMMONS USER NAME (credential, e.g., agency login): minyahil.alebachew POSITION TITLE: ASSISTANT PROFESSOR EDUCATION/TRAINING (Begin with baccalaureate or other initial professional education, such as nursing, include postdoctoral training and residency training if applicable. Add/delete rows as necessary.) INSTITUTION AND LOCATION DEGREE (if applicable) Completion Date MM/YYYY FIELD OF STUDY MEKELLE UNIVERSITY (MU) BPHARM 07/2009 Pharmacy JIMMA UNIVERSITY (JU) MSc 10/2012 Clinical Pharmacy HDP MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES (MUHAS) Higher diploma PhD 07/2016 On going Pedagogical Science Hospital and Clinical Pharmacy A. Personal Statement My long term research interests involve on chronic diseases management and care pertaining to the scope of clinical pharmacy. My academic training and research experiences to date have provided me with an excellent background in such area of medication therapy and outcome research. As an undergraduate student at MU, I conducted research with Mr. Tesfa Marew with a title ‘Antiretroviral medication use and magnitude of opportunistic infections in HIV-infected persons visiting Mekelle hospital’. It was something promising especially for a young researcher starting his career and tuning his life long journey in area of clinical research and practices. I was then employed at MU with the rank of graduate assistant II and worked for 1 year and become an assistant lecturer before moving to JU for my master’s study in 2010. My graduate degree thesis at JU was titled ‘Retrospective Study of the Pattern of Antibiotic Use in Hawassa University Referral Hospital Pediatric Ward, Southern Ethiopia 1’ was in fact resulted in a co-authorship publication with so much admiration in the scientific community. I then returned back to MU and continued working with a rank of lecturer. In 2013, I have changed my working environment somewhere nearer to the capital Addis at Ambo University (AU) due to family reasons with similar academic rank and worked there before finally transferred to Addis Ababa University (AAU) in 2015. I then promoted to the rank of assistant professor in 2017. In the same year I have obtained admission at Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS), Dar es Salaam, Tanzanina, having a scholarship awarded from DAAD. Meanwhile a number of publications were produced in collaborative researches with my students and colleagues. Only few articles are shown below as references 2-7. Currently I am conducting my doctoral research in area of ‘incidence of cardiometabolic biomarkers in HIV infected persons-cohort study’; So far things are going well except the challenges aced from diferent direction. One from many is financial constraints because DAAD doesn’t sponsor the full research expenses. I have tried to apply to many grant resources but due to a number of reasons not successful so far. 1. Woldu MA, Suleman S, Workneh N, Berhane H. Retrospective study of the pattern of antibiotic use in Hawassa University referral hospital pediatric ward, Southern Ethiopia. Journal of Applied Pharmaceutical Science 2013; 3(2): 93. 2. Nasir BB, Berha AB, Gebrewold MA, Yifru YM, Engidawork E, Woldu MA. Drug therapy problems and treatment satisfaction among ambulatory patients with epilepsy in a specialized hospital in Ethiopia. PloS one 2020; 15(1). 3. Abeba Haile, Minyahil Alebachew, Shibeshi W. Antiretroviral Treatment Failure and Its Types Among Patients on Follow up at Zewditu Memorial Hospital, ART Clinic, Ethiopia: A Retrospective Study Ethiopian Pharmaceutical Journal 2016; 32(1): 79-84 4. Demoz GT, Gebremariam A, Yifter H, et al. Predictors of poor glycemic control among patients with type 2 diabetes on follow-up care at a tertiary healthcare setting in Ethiopia. BMC research notes 2019; 12(1): 207. 5. Ewnetu S, Kebede T, Mekonnen A, Alebachew M, Shibeshi W. Effects of Level of Glycaemic Control in Reduction of Maternal and Perinatal Complications Among Pregnant Diabetic Women at Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Ethiopian Pharmaceutical Journal 2016; 32(2): 159-70. 6. Kefale B, Alebachew M, Tadesse Y, Engidawork E. Quality of life and its predictors among patients with chronic kidney disease: A hospital-based cross sectional study. PloS one 2019; 14(2). 7. Lenjisa JL, Woldu MA, Satessa GD. New hope for eradication of HIV from the body: the role of polymeric nanomedicines in HIV/AIDS pharmacotherapy. Journal of nanobiotechnology 2014; 12(1): 9. B. Positions and Honors B1. Positions and Employment Year Employer Type of Employment Aug 2009- March 2010 Mekelle University Graduate Assistant II March 2010- Oct 2012 Mekelle University Assistant Lecturer Oct 2012-March 2013 Mekelle University Lecturer March 2013- Jan 2015 Ambo University Lecturer Jan 2015- Nov 2017 Addis Ababa University Lecturer Nov 2017- Present Addis Ababa University Assistant Professor B2. Honors 2014/15 AU thematic research grant 2017-19 AAU thematic research grant 2017 - 2021 DAAD in-country/in-region scholarship