Haile Tesfaye Debas (born 1937) is an Eritrean physician and academic administrator at the

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(UCSF).

Life

Haile T. Debas was born in

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in 1937. Following undergraduate training at the University College of Addis Ababa, he received his M.D. from

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in 1963 and completed his surgical training at the

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. His postgraduate training included a year as a research fellow at the University of Glasgow/Western Infirmary in Scotland and two years at UCLA as a Medical Research Council Scholar in gastrointestinal physiology. After a year in private practice in the Yukon Territories and

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, he joined the surgery faculty of the

from 1970 to 1980 and then served on the faculty of

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(1980–1985) and the

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(1985–1987). In 1987, Debas came to UCSF as chair of the Department of Surgery. Debas served as Dean of the

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from 1993–2003. In 1997, Haile T. Debas was appointed the seventh Chancellor of UCSF. Debas was the founding Executive Director of UCSF Global Health Sciences (GHS) since its establishment in 2003 until the appointment of Jaime Sepulveda in 2011. He is a fellow of the

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and a member of the

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. He currently serves on the

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Commission on HIV/AIDS and Governance in Africa and on the Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy of the

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References

External links

Haile Tesfaye Debas on

Haile Tesfaye Debas: "Rebuilding African Universities"
{{DEFAULTSORT:Debas, Haile 1937 births Living people Eritrean surgeons McGill University Faculty of Medicine alumni University of British Columbia alumni University of California, San Francisco faculty American people of Eritrean descent Members of the National Academy of Medicine