Clinical and research fellow
University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Canada
Bethlehem Mengesha, MD, earned her medical degree from Jimma University in Ethiopia, and completed residency training in internal medicine, followed by cardiology specialization at Shamir medical center, in Israel. She then pursued advanced fellowship training in advanced cardiac imaging—including cardiac CT, cardiac MRI, and nuclear cardiology—at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, where she attained board certification in all three imaging modalitiesby APCA. She is currently undertaking additional subspecialty training in structural heart imaging at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver.
Throughout her medical education and residency, she was recognized for her leadership skills and dedication to mentoring medical students. During her cardiology training, she secured a competitive research grant, a work that was later presented at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress. Her research interests focus on the role of multimodality imaging in the diagnosis and risk stratification of cardiomyopathies and structural heart disease. She has presented her work at major international scientific meetings, including the American College of Cardiology (ACC), American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC), Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR), and Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT). In 2025, she received Honorable Mention at the Ottawa Cardiovascular Research Day for her abstract presentation. She was also selected for the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology’s Leadership Development Program, a distinguished competitive initiative designed to foster future leaders in the field.