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Portrait details: bequeathed by Prof. Mifsud to University in 1944. Painted by Edward Caruana Dingli, 1922

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

 
   
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