Carmelo Mifsud
Professor of Medicine.
Born: 1860. Education: University of Malta; furthered education
in several medical centres in Naples, London, Paris, Edinburgh,
and Genoa; Qualifications: M.D. [Malta, 1883]. Career:
Government Health Service – appointed visiting physician at the
Central Civil Hospital [1902]. University of Malta - Professor of
Medicine [1902-1924]. Achievements: active in politics,
nominated to Senate to represent graduates in 1921 elections;
Minister of Health 1923-1927.
References: A. Macmillan [ed.]: Biographical Notes – Malta. Malta and
Gibraltar Illustrated. Historical and Descriptive, Commercial and
Industrial, Facts, Figures and Resources. Collingridge, London, 1915,
p.394; C. Savona-Ventura: Mifsud, Carmelo. Maltese biographies of the
twentieth century [eds. M.J. Schiavone; L.J. Scerri]. PIN, Malta, 1997,
p.405; Portraits at the Medical School. Maltese Medical Journal, 1998,
VIII[2]:p.44
Portrait details: bequeathed by Prof. Mifsud
to University in 1944. Painted by Edward
Caruana Dingli, 1922.
http://www.um.edu.mt/umms/museum/portrait
Wednesday, 03 December 2014