Occupational field Public Health Expert / General Practitioner with Special Interest in Ophthalmology / Occupational Health Specialist/ Registered Optometrist Consultant in Public Health, Department of Health Information and Research Previous employment Member of Parliament, House of Representatives, The Palace Valletta Leader of the Maltese Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Member of the Foreign and European Affairs Committee of the Maltese Parliament Parliamentary Secretary (2003-2008)
Other appointments Senior Lecturer and Examiner in Public Health, The Medical School, Mater Dei Hospital, University of Malta Director, Malta Tourism Authority Part-time lecturer at MCAST (Public Health)
Work experience Since 1984 employed with the Department of Health in very many different positions.
Appointed Consultant in Public Health, July 1993 Medical Administrator, St Vincent de Paule Residence Malta from Nov 1993 – Feb 1997 Consultant in the Policy and Planning Division from March 1997 – March 2003 Appointed Parliamentary Secretary (Junior Minister) for Social Policy with special emphasis on Care for the Elderly and Disabled Persons – March 2003 - April 2004 Appointed Parliamentary Secretary (Junior Minister) for Agriculture and Fisheries – April 2004 – March 2008 Member of Parliament – October 1996 – to March 2013 Consultant in the Department of Health Information and Research - March 2008 – to date. National Representative and Expert on Rare Diseases on the European Union Expert Group on Rare Diseases EUGRD (2014-17)
Visiting Senior Lecturer – Department of Public Health, University of Malta ; INIA – International Institute on Ageing
Education and training
MD (University of Malta) 1984; MSc in Public Health (University of Wales) 1986 Cert in Hospital Management (University of Birmingham) 1994 MFPHM (UK) 1999 – Member of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine (UK) MCFD (2004) – Member of the Malta College of Family Doctors FFPH (UK) 2007 – Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine (UK) MSc Clin Ophth (University College London) 2013 Registered as Optometrist in March 2015 (following a sabbatical training programme in Coleraine College of Optometry, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland).
