Maria E. Farrugia MD
Consultant Neurologist, Neurology Department, Institute of Neurological Sciences, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow, Scotland, United KingdomDr. Maria Farrugia graduated in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Malta in 1995. She moved to the UK in 1997, where she first undertook training in postgraduate medicine, then specialist training in Neurology in Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, and at the Institute of Neurological Sciences in Glasgow. Dr. Farrugia trained in neuromuscular disorders at the Muscle & Nerve Centre in Oxford (2002-2004) under the supervision of the late Professor John Newsom-Davis and Professor Angela Vincent and Dr David Hilton Jones. Dr. Farrugia graduated in DPhil (University of Oxford) in 2005. Her research work undertaken during the DPhil was based on the clinical (including neurophysiological and radiological) features of MuSK antibody positive myasthenia gravis and laboratory-based characteristics of MuSK antibody positive serum.
Dr. Farrugia took up a Consultant Neurologist post at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital Glasgow in 2007. She set up the myasthenia gravis service for the West of Scotland in 2007 and has been a lead clinician for myasthenia gravis since 20017 and for adult muscle disorders since 2014.
Dr. Farrugia's research interests include:
- Various aspects of myasthenia including tools to measure disease burden and fatigue;
- Myotonic dystrophy;
- Muscle imaging in neuromuscular disorders;
- Mitochondrial disorders.