Fasika Amdeslasie, a surgeon and healthcare leader from Tigray, Ethiopia. Fasika discusses his extensive career, including leadership roles during a wartime siege, and his participation in The HLA Scholars programme. He highlights the challenges of balancing clinical work with leadership responsibilities in a resource-scarce and politically unstable environment. The conversation reveals universal challenges faced by clinicians globally, regardless of their context, particularly the lack of formal leadership training and the struggle to balance career ambitions with financial security and family needs. Finally, Fasika describes his work with a local NGO focused on mental health rehabilitation in post-conflict Tigray.

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