Bantayehu Sileshi, MD

Dr. Bantayehu Sileshi, born and raised in Africa, has first-hand experience with the disparities of health care provision and is passionate about making a positive impact in safe surgical and anesthesia care in low-resource settings. He came to the United States to pursue his career goal of becoming a physician. He received his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University and is a fellowship trained in cardiothoracic anesthesiology. 

Dr. Sileshi is an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and the Program Director of the Adult Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology fellowship at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.  Dr. Sileshi's primary area of focus includes building education capacity and improving perioperative data collection in low- and middle-income countries. Simulation Training - the program to date has created four high-fidelity simulation centers in four major training centers in Kenya and Ethiopia and incorporated simulation training into existing anesthesia curricula.

• Training of Trainers Course - this program has trained many physician and nonphysician anesthesia educators on contemporary pedagogical techniques, effective mentorship, and trainee and program evaluation. 
• Learning Management System - this project created and implemented a comprehensive, context-sensitive anesthesia training curriculum presented in a Moodle-based platform optimized for low-resource settings.
• Perioperative Outcomes Measures - oversee data collection from over 30 hospitals in Kenya and Ethiopia, which have collected data from over 80,000 individual surgical cases.    

Education

MD, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine