Dr. Frew Hailu Gebreab, MD

I was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. After graduation from medical school, I worked in the rural part of Ethiopia as a general practitioner, which is equivalent to a family physician here in the U.S. Those two years of my life were rewarding and taught me a lot about humility and compassion for the sick. In 1999, I came to the U.S. and began my graduate training. I then went to Cleveland to do a fellowship in geriatrics medicine. This part of my training gave me an added perspective in dealing with the social, medical and end-of-life issues of critically sick elderly patients. In 2003, I retuned to New York to pursue subspecialty training in pulmonary medicine at New York Methodist Hospital, followed by a critical care fellowship at the world-renowned Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.