Dr Hugo Agius Muscat

Dr Hugo Agius Muscat

Dr Hugo Agius Muscat

  M.D.(Melit.),M.Sc.(Warw.),L.R.S.M.,C.R.C.O.

Visiting Senior Lecturer

Faculty of Medicine & Surgery
Public Health
Medical School, Mater Dei Hospital
Msida
  +356 2595 2813
Dr Agius Muscat is a consultant public health physician with more than 30 years of experience in health informatics.

He read for his undergraduate degree in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Malta, qualifying in 1985. In 1989 he won a Foreign and Commonwealth Office scholarship to read for an M.Sc. degree in Health Information Science at Warwick University, UK, which he was awarded with Distinction. On his return to Malta he was appointed Head of the Health Information Systems Unit in the Ministry of Health and also started lecturing at the University of Malta.

In 1993, Dr Agius Muscat was appointed Consultant (Public Health Medicine) and also took up the newly-created position of Director (Health Information) for the Government of Malta. A year later, he was formally appointed as a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Malta.

For more than 30 years, Dr Agius Muscat has been at the forefront of developments in health informatics in the public health services. His hands-on experience and up-to-date knowledge in his specialty has always been passed on to the medical students and post-graduate students that he teaches.
  • Health informatics
  • Public health

GRECH, V. and AGIUS-MUSCAT, H., 2018. WASP (Write a Scientific Paper): Data protection, a guide for health researchers. Early human development, 124, pp. 44.

AGIUS MUSCAT, H., 2016. Update on eHealth developments in Europe. Medical Portals Ltd.

GERADA, E., AGIUS MUSCAT, H., CAMILLERI, L. and MONTEFORT, S., 2015. Decreasing prevalence of wheezing and rhinitis but not eczema in 12- to 15- year old Maltese children over two decades (ISAAC-Malta). European Respiratory Journal, 46, pp. PA1338.

GERADA, E., AGIUS MUSCAT, H., CAMILLERI, L. and MONTEFORT, S., 2015. Gender differences in the prevalence and severity of wheezing, rhinitis and eczema in 5- to 8- year old and 12- to 15- year old Maltese children (ISAAC-Malta). European Respiratory Journal, 46, pp. PA1337.

GERADA, E., AGIUS MUSCAT, H., CAMILLERI, L. and MONTEFORT, S., 2015. An increase in the severity of rhinitis and a reduction in severity of wheezing and eczema in 12- to 15- year old Maltese children over two decades (ISAAC-Malta). European Respiratory Journal, 46, pp. OA1977.

GRECH, V., MUSCAT, H.A. and CASSAR, B., 2009. Videoconferencing : Live Procedures During Conferences – Practical Problems and Solutions. Journal of Visual Communication in Medicine, 32(2), pp. 53-54.

MONTEFORT, S., ELLUL, P., MONTEFORT, M., CARUANA, S. and AGIUS MUSCAT, H., 2009. Increasing prevalence of asthma, allergic rhinitis but not eczema in 5‐ to 8‐yr‐old Maltese children (ISAAC. Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, 20(1), pp. 67-71.

MONTEFORT, S., MUSCAT, H.A., CARUANA, S. and LENICKER, H., 2002. Allergic conditions in 5–8‐year‐old Maltese schoolchildren: Prevalence, severity, and associated risk factors ISAAC]. Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, 13(2), pp. 98-104.

GRECH, V., AGIUS‐MUSCAT, H., MONTFORT, S. and LENICKER, H., 2001. Recognition of asthmatic symptoms in the pediatric age group. Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, 12(1), pp. 49-53.

AGIUS-MUSCAT, H., 2000. The impact of information technology on medicine. Images in paediatric cardiology, 2(1), pp. 1.

AGIUS MUSCAT, H., 1993. Computers in general practise. Malta College of Family Doctors.

AGIUS MUSCAT, H., 1993. The epidemiology of blood transmissible disease in Malta. Malta College of Family Doctors.

AGIUS MUSCAT, H. and WESTWOOD, M., 1993. A national health information strategy for Malta. Maltese Medical Journal.

AGIUS MUSCAT, H. and CARABOTT, P., 1989. The content of general practice in Malta : a pilot study comparing health centre and private practice in Malta with each other and with general practice (as reported for other countries). Maltese Medical Journal.

MAMO, J., AGIUS MUSCAT, H., ELLUL, M. and LENICKER, R., 1989. Development of a health information system for the Maltese Islands : status quo and future plans for the Health Services Information Unit. University of Malta Medical School.

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