PROFILE SUMMARY

I have over seven years of clinical experience as a neurologist, specializing in the assessment, diagnosis, and management of patients with neurological conditions, particularly those affected by dementia, stroke, and Parkinson's disease. Additionally, I am a clinician-scientist who has authored nearly 50 scientific research articles in including original articles, review papers, and case reports and series on both national and international reputable journals. I completed a two-year research scholar training program and actively involved in academia, teaching both undergraduate and graduate students at a medical school at Addis Ababa University. Furthermore, I have received additional training in clinical neurophysiology, which includes expertise in conducting and interpreting electrodiagnostic tests such as EEG, NCS, and EMG. I have conducted numerous electrodiagnostic tests and have published research papers on the patterns of these electrodiagnostic tests in various neurological disorders, including neurodegenerative conditions.

EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE

Equity in Brain Health Fellowship

Neuroinfectious Disease Fellowship

Research Scholar training

Higher Education Teaching Competency

Clinical Neurophysiology Fellowship

Medical Neuroscience

Speciality Certificate in Neurology

Doctor of Medicine

University of California San Francisco (UCSF), CA, USA

August 2022 – August 2023

Columbia University Irving Medical Centre, NY, USA

November 2021 – July 2022 (Remote)

Medical Education Partnership Initiative- AAU-Fogarty

July 2019 – June 2021

Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

January 2019 – December 2019

Cairo University, Kasr Aniy Hospital, Cairo, Egypt

February 2017 – September 2017

Duke University (Remote)

March 2017 – June 2017

Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

December 2013 – March 2017

Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia

December 2004 – October 2010

WORK EXPERIENCE

Assistant Professor of Neurology

Consultant Neurologist

Neurology Residency training/Lecturer

General Practitioner

Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

March 2017 – till now

Yehuleshet Specialty Clinic (Private practice)

December 2017 – August 2022

Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

December 2013 – March 2017

Bule Hora Hospital, Bule hora, Ethiopia

October 2010 – December 2013

LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE

Leadership Development Training

Future Stroke Leaders Trainee program

Chair, Research and Promotion Committee

Chair, Digital Medical Education Committee

MDS Young Leadership Training

Medical Director

Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI), Dublin, Ireland

October 2022 – November 2022

World Stroke Organization (WSO)

January 2021 – October 2022 (Remote)

Department of Neurology, Addis Ababa University

June 2019 – August 2022

School of medicine, Addis Ababa University

November 2020 – June 2022

International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society

January 2020 – December 2021 (Remote)

Bule Hora Hospital, Ethiopia

January 2010 – December 2013

COURSES AND CONFERENCES (Certificates received)

2023

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2022

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2022

2021

2020

2020

2020

Alzheimer’s Association International Conference, Amsterdam, Netherland

Global Brain Health Institute & Alzheimer’s Association Symposium, Mexico City, Mexico

South Texas Alzheimer’s Conference, Global Solutions to Dementia, San Antonio, Texas

GBHI Annual Leadership Development Conference, Dublin, Ireland

Magnetic Resonance Image (MRI) Imaging Processing Training, UCSF, CA, USA

AMYVID Reader Training, UCSF, San Francisco, CA, USA

Neuroscience Observational training, Padova University, Padova, Italy

Training on conducting Epidemiological research, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Good Clinical Practice, NIDA Clinical Trials Network.

Mayo clinic update in Neurology, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Research Methods, Research Ethics and Grant Writing Training, Ethiopia

Implementation sciences, Intensive short course, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

2019

Didactic training on MDS leadership training program, NICE, France.

2019

Neurological Association of South Africa and AFAN conference, East London, South Africa

2019

African School for Young Neurologists: Fundamentals of Movement Disorders, Cairo, Egypt

2018

Environmental Neuroscience Conference, Kinshasa, DRC

2017

Movement disorders and Parkinson’s disease, Cairo, Egypt.

2017

The 4th Scientific Meeting of Cairo University Epilepsy Unit, Cairo, Egypt

2017

Egyptian Clinical Neurophysiology Society Neonatal EEG course, Cairo, Egypt

2017

2nd MENA-SINO, Interventional and vascular Neurology Congress, Cairo, Egypt

2017

Effective teaching methods, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia

2016

The 9th MDS-ES Summer School for Young Neurologist, Lisbon, Portugal.

2015

East African course on movement disorders, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

2013

Management of severe acute malnutrition organized by WHO Woliso, Ethiopia.

2013

WHO-Programmatic and clinical management of MDR-TB and MDR-TB/HIV, Ethiopia

2013

Training on Care for survivors of sexual assault, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

2012

Training on Clinical management of MDR-TB-ICAP Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

2011

Training on Supply chain management of pharmaceuticals, Awassa, Ethiopia.

2010

Training on Palliative care for people living with HIV,Shashamane, by ICAP Ethiopia

2010

Training on Prevention of transmission of HIV from mother to child, Jimma, Ethiopia

INSTITUTIONAL & PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

Global Atlantic Fellow

Member

Member

Member

Member

Member

Member

Member

Lifelong membership, Atlantic Institute, Rhodes House, Oxford, UK

Educational Committee, International Parkinson & Movement Disorder Society-Africa (MDS-AS) July 2020 – August 2023

Executive Committee, International Parkinson & Movement Disorder Society-Africa (MDS-AS) July 2021 – August 2023

Association of Ethiopian Neurologist (AEN)

World Stroke Organisation (WSO)

International Parkinson & Movement Disorder Society (MDS)

Ethiopian Medical Association (EMA)

American Academy of Neurology (AAN)

AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS

Emerging Scholar Award

Young Researcher Award

Letter of Recognition

Certificate of Appreciation

Association of Ethiopian Neurologist (AEN) October 2023

CHS, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, May 2023

School of Medicine, Addis Ababa University, Digital Medical Educational Program. May 2022

Parkinson Patient Support Organization (PPSO) for organizing drug donation from World Parkinson Program (WPP)

LICENCES & LANGUAGE CERTIFICATES

General Medical Practitioner (JGMP)

Neurology Specialist III

International English Language Testing System (IELTS) General Training

Registration No. JGMP=634/2006, RPL=360

Registration No. NS3=1/2013, RPL=01

Listening 7.5, Reading 6.5, Writing 6.5, Speaking 7, Overall Band Score 7

GRANTS (travel, training, and fellowship)

2016

2016

2017

2018

2018

2019

2019

2019

2019

2020

2020

2020

2022

2023

International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology (IFCN) Arica scholarship

International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society conference, Lisbon, Portugal

International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society conference, Cairo, Egypt

International Brain Research Organization (IBRO)Travel Grant, Kinshasa, DRC

World Federation of Neurology (WFN) four weeks Departmental Visit Grant, Germany

International Parkinson and Movement Disorder African Travel Grant, Cairo, Egypt

Neurological Association of South Africa & African Academy of Neurology travel grant, SA

International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society conference, Nice, France

World Federation of Neurology Junior Travelling Fellowship Grant

International Headache Society Young Travel Grant, Antalya, Turkey

International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society conference, South Africa

International Parkinson’s Disease Genomics Consortium conference, Cairo, Egypt

International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society (MDS) Visiting Trainee Grant

Alzheimer’s Association ISTAART-Glenn Biggs Travel Awards for Global Solutions to Dementia, San Antonio, Texas

REVIEWING OTHERS SCIENTIFIC WORK

Frontier in Neurology, Journal reviewer

PLOS One, Journal reviewer

Case Report in Neurology, Journal reviewer

Ethiopian Journal of Health Development (EJHD), Journal reviewer

Ethiopian Medical Journal (EMJ), Journal reviewer

Ethiopian Journal of Health Science (EJHS), Journal reviewer

Neurocase, Journal reviewer

African Journal of Neurological Science (AJNS), Journal reviewer

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS (original & review articles)

[1].Ayele BA, Ali S, Anbessie M, Zewde YZ, Yoseph S, Lee S, Valcour V, Miller B. The need for a tailored national dementia plan in Ethiopia: A call for action. Frontiers in Neurology. 2023;14:1126531.

[2].Ayele BA, Zewde YZ, Tafesse A, Sultan A, Friedman JH, Bower JH. Non-Motor Symptoms and Associated Factors in Parkinson’s Disease Patients in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: A Multicenter Cross-Sectional Study. Ethiopian journal of health sciences. 2021 Jul 1;31(4).

[3].Ayele BA, Tesfaye H, Mehila ZW. Guta Zenebe. Factors Associated with EEG Slowing in Individuals with Parkinson's Disease. Ethiop J Health Sci. 2021;31(1):15.

[4].Ayele BA, Godebo TR, Tekle-Haimanot R, Yifru YM. Neuro-medical manifestations of fluorosis in populations living in the Main Ethiopian Rift Valley. Environmental Geochemistry and Health. 2022 Mar;44(3):1129–36.

[5].Ayele, Biniyam A. Mengesha, A.T. & Zewde, Y.Z. (2020). Clinical characteristics and associated factors of trigeminal neuralgia: experience from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. BMC Oral Health 20, 244 (2020).

[6].Biniyam A. Ayele, Yared M. Yifru (2018). Migraine-related disability and co-morbid depression among migraineurs in Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study. BMC Neurology 18:95 (2018)

[7].Ayele, Biniyam, Zewde, Y.Z., Degefa, M.T. et al. Data set for demography, clinical characteristics, and risk factors of trigeminal neuralgia patients in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. BMC Res Notes 14, 9 (2021)

[8].Biniyam Ayele, Mehila Z., Betesaida G, Guta Z. (2021) Serum vitamin D level among Multiple Sclerosis Patients in the Tropics: Experience from private clinic in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. EJHS; 2021: 30(1).

[9].Biniyam A. Ayele & Wondwossen Amogne (2021). Central Nervous System Tuberculosis (CNS-TB) in treated HIV-infected adults in Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital, Ethiopia: A cross sectional study, Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases, 202*-******.

[10].Biniyam Ayele et al. Neuroimaging features and associated factors in Multiple sclerosis patients: A perspective from a private care center in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; EJHS 2021

[11].Biniyam A. Ayele, et al. Electroencephalographic findings, antiepileptic drugs, and risk factors of 433 individuals referred to a Tertiary Care Hospital in Ethiopia, EJHS, 2022.

[12].Anbessie M, Yonas L., Biniyam A. Ayele et al. Media for Advocacy of mental health in the Ethiopian Context. Current practice, gaps, and future directions; Front. Psychiatry. Vol. 14 - 2023 doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1248827

[13].Rufus A., Biniyam Ayele et al. Dementia in Africa: Current evidence, knowledge gaps and future directions; Alzheimer's & Dementia (2021), DOI:10.1002/alz.12432

[14].Degefa, M., Dubale, B., Bayouh, F. Ayele Biniyam., Zewde Y. (2020). Validation of the PHQ-9 depression scale in Ethiopian cancer patients attending the oncology clinic at Tikur Anbessa specialized hospital. BMC Psychiatry 20, 446 (2020).

[15].Rufus A, Fred S, Foad A, Yomi O, Mofou B, Patty F, Biniyam A. Ayele, et al (2020). Conceptual framework for establishing the African Stroke Organization, International Journal of Stroke.897871 (2020)

[16].Ali Shalash, Iman, Biniyam et al. The gaps and prospects of movement disorders education and research in Africa: A continental survey. Movement Disorders 2023

[17].Celia P., Maria J, Holm G., Biniyam et al. Management of rare movement diseases in different world regions. Parkinson Disease and Related Disorders 2023

[18].Carla Kim, Biniyam…Kiran T. et al. Neurological Diagnoses in Hospitalized Patients During the B.1.1.529 Surge, Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, 2023

[19].Hamid, E., Ayele, Biniyam, Massi, D.G., Ben Sassi, S., Tibar, H., et al. (2021), Availability of Therapies and Services for Parkinson's Disease in Africa: A Continent-Wide Survey. Mov Disord.

[20].Rango, T., Jeuland, M., Whitford, G.M., Tekle-Haimanot, D., Ayele, Biniyam, Assefa, G., Wolfe A., (2020). Bone quality in fluoride-exposed populations: A novel application of the ultrasonic method. Bone Reports 12:100235 (2020)

[21].Sisay M., Hanna D, Biniyam AA, et al. Factors associated with antiepileptic drug adherence in epileptic patients at a tertiary care center in Ethiopia: a cross sectional study, AJNS, 2022

[22].Abdi BW, Emnet, Biniyam A. Ayele, Factors associated with ICU mortality at Hawassa University Comprehensive Specialized Hospital (HUCSH), EJHS, 2022

[23].Yared Z., Biniyam A. Ayele, et al. Electrodiagnostic referrals and neuromuscular disease pattern in East Africa: Experience from a tertiary hospital in Ethiopia, Clinical Neurophysiology Practice, 2022

[24].Kim, Carla Y., Zomer Sardar, Biniyam A. Ayele, Shannon Fleck Derderian, Catherine E. Barrett, Yifei Sun, Madison Clague et al. Neurological diagnoses in hospitalized COVID 19 patients during the B. 1.1. 529 surge. Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology (2023).

[25].Melka D, Demissie H, Assefa H, Zenebe Y, Ayele BA, et al. Epidemiological and Clinical profile of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in Ethiopia: a 5-year multicenter retrospective study. Amyotroph Lateral Scler Frontotemporal Degener. 2023:1–9. doi: 10.1080/21678421.2023.2238016.

[26].Stirland, Lucy E., Biniyam A. Ayele, Catherine Correa-Lopera, and Virginia E. Sturm. Authenticity and brain health: a values-based perspective and cultural education approach. Frontiers in Neurology 14: 1206142.

[27].Anbessie, Mohammed N., Yonas L. Belete, Biniyam A. Ayele, Victor Valcour, et al. Media for Advocacy of mental health in the Ethiopian Context. Current practice, gaps, and future directions; Frontiers in Psychiatry 14: 1248827.

[28].Godebo TR, Jeuland M, Tekle-Haimanot R, Alemayehu B, Shankar A, Wolfe A, Phan N. Associations between fluoride exposure in drinking water and cognitive deficits in children: A pilot study. Neurotoxicol Teratol. 2023:107293.

[29].Mohammed, S., Haidar, J., Ayele, B.A. et al. Post-stroke limitations in daily activities: experience from a tertiary care hospital in Ethiopia. BMC Neurol 23, 364 (2023).

[30].Biniyam A., Kiran T. Wondwossen A. Factors associated with neurocognitive impairment in treatment experienced HIV+ adults from a tertiary care center in Ethiopia: A perspective study. EMJ, 2023.

[31].Nkouonlack CD, Njamnshi WY, Angwafor SA, Fodjo JN, Mengnjo MK, Ayele BA, LN, Abomate C, Nganchfu K, Ahidjo N. Dementia and cognitive impairment in French-speaking Sub-Saharan Africa: a comprehensive review on moving out of the shadows of neglect (Preprint).

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS (case reports & technical reports)

[1].Biniyam Ayele, M. Rizing, et al (2020). The COVID 19 and the state of African neurology. European Journal of Neurology 27: 9 (2020) p. e48-e49.

[2].Biniyam Ayele, Y. Zenebe, H. Demissie, et al., Impact of COVID-19 on the clinical care of Ethiopian PD patients: A glimpse into the burden, eNeurologicalSci 21 (2020)100273

[3].Biniyam Ayele, Guta Zenebe, Abenet Mengesha, Yegeta Teshale (2020) Symptomatic Giant Virchow-Robin Spaces: A Rare Cause of Spastic Quadriparesis in 43-Year-Old Ethiopian Patient: A Case Report. Ethiop J Health Sci. 30:1:559. (2020)

[4].Biniyam Ayele, Abenet Mengesha, Abdi Wotiye, Yodit Alemayehu (2020). Giant Pituitary Adenoma Presenting with Foster-Kennedy Syndrome in a 21-Year Old Ethiopian Patient: A Rarely Reported Phenomenon: A Case Repo. Ethiop J Health Sci 30:2: 559 (2020)

[5].Ayele, Biniyam, Amogne, W. Gemechu, L. (2020). HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder and HIV-associated myelopathy in a patient with preserved CD4, but high viral load-a rarely reported phenomenon: A case report and literature review BMC Infectious Disease 20, 574 (2020)

[6].AYELE Biniyam Alemayehu, MENGESHA Abenet Tafesse, DULLI Douglas. (2017) Severe Hypokalemia Mimicking Guillain-Barré Syndrome in 42-Years-Old Ethiopian Patient: AJNS 36:1 (2017)

[7].Ayele Biniyam, Mengesha AT. (2017) Hemi Dystonic Tremor Secondary to Large Intraventricular Tumor in 14-YearOld Ethiopian Patient: J Clin Case Rep 7: 1037 (2017)

[8].Biniyam Ayele, Yared Zenebe Zewde. (2018) DYKE–DAVIDOFF–MASSON SYNDROME-A Rare Cause of Cerebral Hemiatrophy in 17-Years-Old Ethiopian Patient: A Case Report. Ethiop J Health Sci. 29:1 (2018)

[9].Biniyam A. Ayele, Abenet Tafesse, Yared Zenebe (2018) Early onset peak-dose L-dopa induced dyskinesia in 55-year-old Ethiopian Parkinson’s disease patient, Ethiop. Pharm. J 34: i-ii. (2018)

[10].Ayele Biniyam, Abdinasir W, Abate B, and Abdi T. (2019) Sellar Tuberculoma: a rare presentation in 30-year-old Ethiopian Patient, AJNS 38:1:50-53 (2019)

[11].Biniyam A. Ayele, Getahun Mengistu, Abdinasir Wako (2016) Adult Variant of Ophthalmologic Migraine with Recurrent 6th Cranial Nerve Palsy in 25yrs Old Ethiopian Patient: case report. JNS 4:1 (2016)

[12].Ayele Biniyam Alemayehu, KUMA Abera, KIFELEW Selam, TAFESSE Abenet, TIRSIT Abenezer. Bilateral subdural hematoma a rare complication of common procedure in 30-year-old female patient: a case report and literature review; AJNS 2020 Vol. 39, No 2.

[13].Biniyam Ayele et al. Millard-Gubler Syndrome Associated with Cerebellar Ataxia in a Patient with Isolated Paramedian Pontine Infarction – A Rarely Observed Combination with a Benign Prognosis: A Case Report; Case Reports in Neurology; 2021: 13(1)

[14].Biniyam Ayele et al. Clinico-pathological diagnosis Facioscapulohumeral Dystrophy in a 22-year-old Male patient: a case report; Sudan Journal of Medical Sciences;2021: 16(1):135-142

[15].Biniyam Ayele et al. Pott’s paraplegia and role of neuroimaging in resource limited setting: A Case report and brief review of the literatures; 2021

[16].Biniyam Ayele et al. Phenobarbitone induced Toxic epidermal necrosis in a young patient a rare clinical presentation: A case report and brief review of the literatures, Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology, 2021.

[17].Biniyam A. Ayele (2018). My experience at Universitatsklinikum-Erlangen, Department of Neurology Germany, World Neurology Newsletter 33:6 (2018)

[18].Biniyam A. Ayele, Oluwadamilola Ojo (2020). Interviews with MDS Africa LEAP. Moving Along Newsletters 24:1:17-18 (2020)

[19].Riyad I., Biniyam A. Ayele, et al. Reversible anomia and cerebral venous thrombosis: A case report and a brief review of the literatures, Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2022

[20].Blen M, Biniyam A. Ayele et al. Huntington's disease in a 31-year-old Ethiopian patient: A case report and a brief literature review; Ethiopian Medical Journal 2023, 61(2)

[21].Abdi Bati Wotiye, Poornachandra KS, and Biniyam A. Ayele (2020) Invasive intestinal mucormycosis in a 40year old immunocompetent patient - a rarely reported clinical phenomenon: a case report BMC Gastroenterology 20:61 (2020)

RESEARCH GRANTS RECEIVED

2023 - 2027

2023 - 2024

2023 - 2024

2023 - 2024

2019-2020

2018 - 2022

2019-2020

U19 READD-ADSP multicenter, multiethinic Alzheimers disease genetics Project

(NIH funded)

Improving lumbar puncture (LP) practice in Ethiopia (WFN funded)

A Clinical Quality Registry for Dementia in Ethiopia (CQRD Ethiopia)

(Funded by GBHI & Alzheimer’s Association)

International Parkinson and Movement Disorder (MDS) Centre to centre training program (MDS funded)

HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND) and drug adherence among HIV+ adults in Ethiopia, funded by Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) Addis Ababa University (AAU) (NIH-Fogarty funded)

To understand fluoride related mineralized tissue disorders and other potential health consequences such as neurological complications of fluorosis in the Main Ethiopian Rift (MER) Valley (NIH K99/R00 NIH funded)

Prevalence of Non motor symptoms in Ethiopian PD patients” attending two neurology referral clinics in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Funded by Parkinson Patient Support Organization Ethiopia (PPSO funded)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Medline/PubMed

Research gate

Publons

Google scholar

Academia

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/biniyam%20a..ayele.1/bibliography/public/

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Biniyam_Ayele

https://publons.com/researcher/1877072/biniyam-a-ayele-md/

https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=WfU-IA0AAAAJ&hl=en

https://addisababa.academia.edu/biniyamalemayehu

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