I am a clinical haematologist after having undergone specialist training in the UK. I hold the rank of Associate Professor and Head of Department of Pathology at the University of Malta. I followed a research MD on the utility of Global Assays of Coagulation in Anticoagulation, Thrombotic Disorders and Liver Disease at the University of Sheffield under the mentorship of Professor Michael Makris. After my research I was appointed as Consultant Haematologist at the Royal Free Katherine Dormandy Haemophilia and Thrombosis Centre under the directorship of Prof Edward Tuddenham. Here I fostered my interest in global assays of coagulation by studying liver disease patients together with my haematology, hepatology and anaesthetic colleagues. On my return to Malta, I have been leading the clinical and research aspects of Coagulation Medicine and am the Director of the Malta Centre for Bleeding and Thrombotic Disorders. The latter is an EU accredited Haemophilia Treatment Centre. As a Fulbright Scholar in 2013, I researched the use of thromboelastography in patients undergoing liver transplantation at the Mayo Clinic Rochester Minnesota US. I have mentored several undergraduate and postgraduate students on haemostasis projects and am especially interested in Thrombin Generation and thromboelastography/thromboelastometry. I sit on the editorial boards of Thrombosis Research and the Malta Medical Journal.
