Tesfu Kassa
Tesfu Kassa
Name: Tesfu
Father’s name: Kassa
Grad father’s name: Mekonnen
Education attended :
Master of Science Degree in Veterinary Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, 1983- 84, Uppsala, Sweden
Diploma, Fellowship of Royal Veterinary College of Sweden, 1983, Sweden
Diploma, Fifteenth FAO/SIDA International Postgraduate Course on Animal Reproduction, April 15- Dec 1983, The Swedish University of Agricultural Science, Uppsala, Sweden
Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Shiraz (Pahlavi) University, 1975-79, Shiraz, Iran
Certificate, Pre-Medical studies, Addis Ababa University, 1971–74, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Academic rank: Professor since August 2002
Working for AAU: Since 1980
Administrative positions held:
- Director, Aklilu Lemma Institute of Pathobiology as of 27 April 2012
- Deputy Director, ALIPB, 25 Aug 2011- 26 Aug 2012
- Acting Director of ALIPB on several occasions, before Aug 2012
- Head, Animal Health and Zoonotic Diseases Research Unit, ALIPB, March 1996- Aug 2011
- Head, Department of Physiology, Biochemistry & Pharmacology, former Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, AAU, Debre Zeit, 18 Dec 1985-Sept 1988
- Head, Department of Clinical Studies, former Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, AAU, Debre Zeit, 11 Nov 1986-1 July 1992
Awards, recognitions, memberships of international bodies/ journals, editorial roles/ initiatives etc
- Fellow of Royal Veterinary College of Sweden since 1983
- Member of the Editorial Board and Associate Editor of the Ethiopian Veterinary Association, 2002 – 2009
- Letter of Appreciation from Aklilu Lemma Foundation (ALF) in recognition of long years of unpaid services mainly as Chairman of the Scholarships and Research Grants Committee (SRGS), June 2011
- Certificate of Participation as a member of the External Examining Board in the DVM theses defense in the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Gondar University, June 29- July 2, 2009
- Certificate in recognition of the valuable contributions to the success of the 19th Annual Conference of the Ethiopian Veterinary Association, June 2005
- Fulbright Senior Scholar Research Grant for studies at the University of Florida, USA, 1996/97
- Fellowship grant by FAO/ SIDA to study at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, the Swedish University of Agricultural Science, Uppsala, Sweden, 1983
Research interest:
Animal health, reproductive disorders, mastitis, zoonotic diseases and productivity constraints; applications of Endod (Phytolacca dodecandra), student research supervision and capacity building, with the view to seek solutions and work for development of intervention options/ strategies/ tools.
Publications on reputable journals
1. Hadush, A., Mahendra Pal, Tesfu Kassa and Fikre Zeru. 2013. Sero-epidemiology of camel brucellosis in the Afar region of Northeast Ethiopia. Journal of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Health, 5(9): 269-275.
2. K. Simenew, T. Dejen, S. Tesfaye, R. Fekadu, K. Tesfu and D. Fufa. 2013. Characterization of Camel Production System in Afar Pastoralists, North East Ethiopia. Asian Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 5(2): 16-24.
3. Simenew Keskes, Mohamed Ibrahim, Tesfaye Sisay Tessema, Berhan Tamir, Fekadu Regassa, Tesfu Kassa, Fufa Dawo. 2013. Production systems and reproductive performances of Camelus dromedarius in Somali regional state, eastern Ethiopia. Journal of Agriculture and Environment for International Development – JAEID 2013, 107 (2): 243 – 266.
4. Biniam Mathewos, Tesfu Kassa, et al. 2013. Characterization of mycobacterium isolates from pulmomary tuberculosis suspected cases visiting Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory at Ethiopian Health and Nutrition Research Institute, Addis Ababa Ethiopia a cross sectional study. Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine, 2013 (Accepted)
5. Walle F, Kebede N, Tsegaye A, Kassa T., 2013: Seroprevalence and risk factors for Toxoplasmosis in HIV infected and non- infected individuals in Bahir Dar, Northwest Ethiopia. Parasites & Vectors, 6:15.