Dr. Michael A. Borg
M.D., M.Sc. (Lond), DLSHTM, MMCPath.

Michael holds the position of Consultant in Hospital Infection Control and Chairman of the Infection Control Committee of St. Luke's Hospital, a 900 bed tertiary facility on the Mediterranean island of Malta. He is also the Chairperson of the Maltese National Advisory Committee of Antibiotic Use and Resistance as well as a lecturer within the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of the University of Malta teaching infection control to both medical and nursing courses and also the Registrar of the Malta College of Pathologists.

He has been the Malta representative to the International Federation of Infection Control since 1996. His paper "A review of needlestick injuries at St. Luke's Hospital - Malta" was awarded the best poster award at the Second IFIC Congress at George, South Africa in 1999.

He has been invited to participate as an expert in several European meetings including the Intergovernmental workshop on the Prevention of Hospital-acquired Infection in Member States of the Council of Europe, acted as rapporteur of the infectious diseases group at the Expert Meeting on Health and Social Welfare in the Euro-Mediterranean region and lately is a permanent member of the EU working group on the prudent use of antimicrobial agents in human medicine.

Current research interests focus primarily on antibiotic use and antimicrobial resistance particularly the Mediterranean region. A proposal submitted on behalf of 10 Euro-Mediterranean countries for project ARMed - a multinational study focusing on antibiotic resistance, consumption and infection control within the Mediterranean region has been accepted under the INCOMED programme of the Fifth Financial Protocol and is due to start in early 2003.