He performs evaluations and surgery for patients with disorders of the brain, spinal cord, spine, and peripheral nerves including brain tumors, brain hemorrhage, head injury, hydrocephalus, congenital disorders involving the skull, spine, or brain, spinal trauma, spinal tumors, infections of the brain and spine, degenerative diseases of the spine (cervical, thoracic, and lumbar) including stenosis, subluxation, and disc herniation. Advanced post graduate programs in neurosurgery are planned. Additionally he works with university and regional authorities in carrying out health care development for Ethiopia. 

The Ayder Referral Hospital commenced rendering its referral and non-referral services in 2008 to the 8 million population in its catchment areas of the Tigray, Afar and Southeastern parts of the Amhara Regional States in Ethiopia. It provides a broad range of medical services to both in and out patients of all age groups. As such, the Hospital can be designated as the most advanced medical facility, by all accounts, in not only the Northern part of the country but in Africa and that it stands as the second largest hospital in the nation. 

With a total inpatient bed capacity of about 500 beds in four major departments and other specialty units, the Ayder Referral Hospital is used as the main teaching hospital for the College of Health Sciences, Mekelle University. Having above 55 specialist physicans in the various areas of medical specializations and fairly adequate numbers of all the other health professionals constituting the health care team, the Hospital is now emerging as a shining hot spot for advanced medical care and treatment in the Northern parts of Ethiopia. With the day-by-day rising patient flow that has already exceedd 100,000 per year, the Ayder Referral Hospital has made remarkable achievements in equipping itself with advanced medical equipments, supplies and facilities over the last four years. The recently commissed imaging equipments such as CT-Scan, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and cardiac catheterization lab unit heralded the launching of Specialty level service in the hospital, the later being the only of its kind in public facilities in the country. Frequently patients travel hundreds of miles and across national borders for consultation so that his referral area spans to all of Ethiopia, South Sudan, Djibouti, Somalia, Somaliland, Kenya , East Africa, and the Middle East. 

Online consultation via text questions, phone consultation, email consultation, and arrangement for transfer to patients to Ethiopia for advanced neurosurgical treatment is provided by Professor Tony Magana. Doctor Tony attended Texas A&M University and received honors in undergraduate work before attending Harvard Medical School. His neurosurgical training was at the University of Miami School of Medicine. 

He has lectured and performed surgery in many countries apart from the United States including South Korea, Columbia, Sweden, Germany, Mexico, Turkey and most recently at the King Zayed Military Hospital in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates before coming to Ethiopia. He is a member of the Surgical Society of Ethiopia, a Fellow of the College of Surgeons for South, East, and Central Africa, the Ethiopian Neurosurgical Society under the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons.