Bahrenegash Getachew, MD, CPXP

Bahrenegash Getachew, MD, CXPX, is the National Director of Clinician and Patient Experience for USACS. In this leadership role, he oversees programs and strategies that help shape the care patients receive and leads initiatives that support Clinicians as they care for patients.

Prior to his current role, Dr. Getachew served as Medical Director at two Inova Health System freestanding emergency departments, Inova Emergency Room Fairfax City in Fairfax, VA, and Inova Emergency Room Reston/Herndon in Reston, VA. In this role Dr. Getachew oversaw clinical operations and strategic growth of the EDs, including expansion of imaging capabilities at the Reston/Herndon ED. Currently, Dr. Getachew serves as the Director of Patient Experience, Emergency Department at Inova Fairfax Medical Campus, where he leads patient experience initiatives through Clinician-level data analysis, workflow redesign, and targeted improvement strategies. Since beginning this role, Inova Health System was recognized as Press Ganey Health System of the Year.

In 2026, Dr. Getachew was selected to participate as a member of The Beryl Institute's National Physician Council, collaborating with national Physician leaders to advance patient and Clinician experience. Through this membership, he has completed The Beryl Institute Body of Knowledge (BOK) Program, earning certificates in patient experience leadership and patient advocacy, and was a featured contributor to Beyond the Clock: Improving the Human Experience of Waiting in Healthcare, providing national thought leadership on emergency department boarding, admission avoidance, patient flow, and the human experience of waiting.

Dr. Getachew is a graduate of the USACS Scholars Program and recently presented an abstract at ACEP on the Good Talk Initiative, an interdisciplinary Clinician and patient experience workshop focused on relationship-based communication, fostering psychological safety, peer learning, and sharing best practices among Physicians, Advanced Practice Providers, Nurses, and Pharmacists.

Dr. Getachew earned his bachelor’s degree from George Mason University and his medical degree from Virginia Commonwealth University. He went on to complete his emergency medicine residency at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD.