Family Medicine
Kahsu A. Tsehay, MD, MPH
First Medical Associates
Dr. Kahsu A. Tsehay is a family medicine physician at First Medical Associates in Silver Spring, MD, caring for patients of all ages in both English and Amharic. With a master’s in public health alongside his medical degree and a clinical background that spans primary care and hospital medicine, he brings a prevention-first lens to whole-family care.
Background and training
Dr. Tsehay earned his medical degree from the Gondar College of Medical Sciences in Ethiopia in 1996 and later completed a Master of Public Health. Before moving to the United States, he spent eight years as a general practitioner — including ICU and hospital medicine — at a South Korean tertiary hospital in Addis Ababa. He completed his residency through the Lynchburg Family Medicine Residency Program in Virginia, where he received the program’s award of academic excellence three consecutive years (2021–2024).
Why patients choose Dr. Tsehay
Family physicians care for the whole family — children, adults, and grandparents alike — which makes Dr. Tsehay’s Amharic fluency a natural fit for multigenerational Ethiopian households. His unusually broad clinical background, from ICU management to public health, helps him make confident judgments and care for patients of all ages, with a focus on prevention, screening, and managing chronic conditions before they escalate.
Practice focus
Comprehensive primary care across all ages, with emphasis on preventive health and the management of chronic conditions like high blood pressure and diabetes.
Languages and access
Dr. Tsehay speaks English and Amharic and accepts new patients at his Silver Spring office. Confirm insurance participation and availability with the practice before booking.
Profile last fact-checked June 30, 2026. Information reflects publicly available sources and may change. Confirm details directly with the practice before booking.
How Dr. Tsehay compares
Context from the 139 providers we track across Bethesda and Montgomery County.
1 of 2 offering hospital medicine
2 of the 130 providers who list their focus areas name hospital medicine.
1 of 8 Amharic-speaking doctors
8 of the 139 providers in our registry (6%) practise in Amharic, across 5 specialties.
Trained in Ethiopia
7 of the 107 doctors whose medical school we record trained in Ethiopia. 24 trained outside the United States altogether.
2nd longest since qualifying of our 13 family medicine providers
Qualified in 1996. The median for the 13 family medicine providers whose year we record is 2009.
Medical school: University of Gondar College of Medicine and Health Sciences — Gondar, Amhara, Ethiopia.
Figures describe the 139 providers currently in the MyBethesdaDoctor registry as of August 2026 — a curated directory, not a census of every doctor in Montgomery County. How we build this list.
Where Dr. Tsehay sits by experience
Dr. Tsehay finished medical school in 1996, 30 years ago. Of the 135 providers in our registry whose graduation year we could verify, 49 finished earlier, 80 finished later, and 5 finished the same year.
1965–69
1 provider finished 1965–19691970–74
2 providers finished 1970–19741975–79
4 providers finished 1975–19791980–84
13 providers finished 1980–19841985–89
12 providers finished 1985–19891990–94
14 providers finished 1990–1994Dr. Tsehay1996
1995–99
27 providers finished 1995–19992000–04
20 providers finished 2000–20042005–09
19 providers finished 2005–20092010–14
17 providers finished 2010–20142015–19
4 providers finished 2015–20192020–24
2 providers finished 2020–2024Among the 110 physicians we list, 45 finished medical school earlier — the median for that group is 1998.
All 12 bands
| Graduated | Providers |
|---|---|
| 1965–1969 | 1 |
| 1970–1974 | 2 |
| 1975–1979 | 4 |
| 1980–1984 | 13 |
| 1985–1989 | 12 |
| 1990–1994 | 14 |
| 1995–1999 — Dr. Tsehay | 27 |
| 2000–2004 | 20 |
| 2005–2009 | 19 |
| 2010–2014 | 17 |
| 2015–2019 | 4 |
| 2020–2024 | 2 |
Figures describe the 139 providers currently in the MyBethesdaDoctor registry as of August 2026 — a curated directory, not a census of every doctor in Montgomery County. Based on the 135 of 139 profiles with a graduation year we could verify against a primary source; the remaining 4 are left out rather than estimated. How we build this list.
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