Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

AntenehTirusew, MD

AKA, The AI Fluent Doctor

Building the digital infrastructure for African healthcare.

A General Practitioner, digital health innovator, and AI-in-healthcare advocate — bridging frontline clinical practice with the software that scales it. Founder of two live platforms.

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Dr. Anteneh Tirusew, physician and digital health innovator
AI × Medicine
EducationMD
24+
Certifications · AI & digital health
2
Live platforms · SaaS + open platform
The Work

Software that runs, not slideware.

Two platforms built for the realities of African health systems — both live and clickable right now.

Real-time operations intelligence · SaaSLIVE

Tiru Ops

Two pillars, one platform: contactless presence verification — and an auditable communication channel that reaches everyone, from leadership down to security and janitorial staff.

GPS-geofenced, offline-first attendance confirms who was actually on-site — not just when they clocked in. Paired with broadcast notifications, incident reporting, and digital leave processing, it gives leadership one audit trail instead of a dozen phone calls.

If you're a facility owner, GM, or CEO — how many phone calls do you make just to find out who's on shift right now, or who was, three weeks ago? Is there any way today to be reassured a staff member was actually on-site for their shift? And when something needs to reach everyone — leadership down to security and janitorial — is it one push notification, or a chain of calls and missed texts? If that's you, let's talk.
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Tiru Health Medical Directory

Trace the right care — in three clicks or less.

A directory of 105+ private health facilities across Addis Ababa — searchable by name, area, or specialty, with real distance-based results. Every listing starts community-sourced; once a provider claims and verifies their facility, they own it and control exactly what the public sees.

How many phone calls does it take to find out which hospital offers the service you need? Where the nearest pediatric center is? Which specialist treats your condition — and when they're actually available? Most people don't have a good answer to any of those. Tiru Health Medical Directory does.
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Credentials

24+ certifications, focused on digital health and AI.

Continuous certification across AI, healthcare AI, digital health, and telemedicine.

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Acceptance rate
45 selected out of 3,500+ continental applicants
25/45 Fellows graduated
Fellowship & Recognition Completed · Sep 2026

Africa Healthcare Innovation Fellowship — 2026

Selected as one of 45 fellows from 3,500+ applicants across the continent — the top 1.4% — for demonstrated innovation, leadership, and commitment to transforming African healthcare.

Structured field research into systemic delivery gaps — documented in the AHIF 2026 Field Work Report (June 2026) — surfaced institutional communication breakdowns, facility-discovery barriers, and shift-visibility deficits: the exact problems Tiru now addresses.

Graduated as one of 25 fellows to complete the programme out of the 45 selected, after presenting a working demonstration of the solution built in response to that field work — validated at the close of the fellowship.

Patient Voice

What patients say.

Across in-person consultations at American Medical Center and teleconsultations via HabariDOC — in their own words.

★★★★★5.0 In-person · AMC

Super professional, takes his time to explain and listen. He explained my lab report very well. I will definitely continue to have Dr. Anteneh as my doctor.

— Henok K. · November 2024

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★★★★★5.0 In-person · AMC

Dr. Anteneh was very kind, pleasant, and professionally perfect. He listened to our concerns and explained his thoughts patiently. We are very satisfied with the process and treatment.

— Adane Z. · 2 years ago

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★★★★★5.0 In-person · AMC

The dedication and expertise of Dr. Anteneh and staff are truly commendable. Their tireless efforts and compassionate care made a significant impact on my well-being. Your attention to detail and focus on patient comfort did not go unnoticed.

— Kulen I. · 2 years ago

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★★★★☆4.0 Teleconsultation · HabariDOC

His communication is excellent, and what really stands out is how much he genuinely cares. He goes above and beyond to make sure I'm comfortable, informed, and welcomes me being actively involved in my own care. That kind of thoughtful approach makes a big difference, and is not that common in my experience.

— Semra W. · 1 year ago

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★★★★★5.0 Teleconsultation · HabariDOC

I am very pleased with my consultation with Dr. Anteneh.

— Sunper N. · 1 year ago

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Experience

Frontline medicine meets product.

2026 — Present

Founder & Product Lead

Tiru Ops · Tiru Health Medical Directory

Designed and built two full-stack health platforms from the ground up — real-time workforce operations and city-wide care navigation.

Dec 2025 — Jul 2026

CPD Director

American Medical Center · Habari Medical Plaza

Facilitated continuing professional development course design and coordinated presentations across both facilities — from December 2025 at AMC and March 2026 at Habari Medical Plaza. Built and managed sponsor networks with pharmaceutical partners supporting CPD programming.

2022 — Jul 2026

Assistant Medical Director & General Practitioner

AMC · Habari Medical Plaza

Coordinate clinical governance, physician scheduling, and inter-departmental quality assurance; manage complex internal medicine, paediatrics, and travel medicine as senior panel physician.

2024 — Jul 2026

Medical Helpline Supervisor

24/7 Hotline (9873)

Supervise triage, consultation, and referral facilitation for callers across Ethiopia; oversee agent training, quality monitoring, and escalation protocols under high call volumes.

2022 — Jul 2026

GP Teleconsultant

HabariDOC Telemedicine Platform

Deliver teleconsultations expanding access in underserved and remote communities; contribute clinical and product insight to Ethiopia's EMR-integrated telemedicine platform.

2024 — 2025

Project Assistant — Women's & Reproductive Health

Telemedicine outreach

Delivered mental-health and SRH-related education, consultations, and tailored management — in person during field visits and via teleconsultation — to women with disabilities, female sex workers, college students, flower-farm and industrial-park workers, and IDP-affected communities.

Education Doctor of Medicine (MD) — University of Gondar, School of Medicine 2013 — 2021
About

I'm a physician who builds. My work sits at the intersection of frontline clinical practice and digital health engineering — because the best solutions come from people who have felt the problem inside the system, not just studied it from outside.

Every platform I've built started as a need I saw at the bedside or in operations: patients who couldn't find the right facility, mandated staffing hours that couldn't be verified, referrals lost to friction. I bring rare fluency across clinical medicine, product development, and applied AI, and a commitment to system-level solutions built for African realities — offline-first, resource-aware, and made to scale.

The Person Behind the Work

Discipline in practice.

The habits that shape how I build are the same ones I've kept for years away from any screen.

Athlete & Mover

Competitive table tennis player. Weight training on weekdays, walking and hiking on weekends.

Regular Meditator

Daily meditation practice and a long-standing interest in Eastern philosophy and Zen tradition.

What I'm Reading

Books that have shaped how I think — recommended without reservation:

  • Three Pillars of Zen — Philip Kapleau
  • Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind — Shunryu Suzuki
  • My Stroke of Insight — Jill Bolte Taylor
  • The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari — Robin Sharma
  • The Leader Who Had No Title — Robin Sharma

The same discipline that keeps me on the table tennis table and the meditation cushion is what gets a platform shipped while seeing patients.

Let's build

Let's talk.

Open to fellowships, funding, and collaborations in digital health and AI in healthcare. The fastest way to reach me is WhatsApp.

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