University of Malta  UNIVERSITY OF MALTA  
FACULTY OF MEDICINE & SURGERY  
Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics  
TEL: (+356) 2340 2845      FAX: (+356) 2132 0281

 

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Head Of Department

Prof. Roger Ellul-Micallef
M.D., Ph.D.(Edin.),
F.R.C.P. (Edin.), F.R.C.P. (Lond.)

 

 

 

E-mail

roger.ellul-micallef@um.edu.mt

Telephone

+(356) 2340-2289

Office

Chemistry Building, 1st Floor, Room 207

Biography

 

Education [ Top Of Page ]

1967: Doctor of Medicine, Royal University of Malta, 1972: Doctor of Philosophy in Respiratory Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Scotland. 1990: Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. 1998: Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London.

Professional Posts [ Top Of Page ]

1967 Part-time lecturer in the Department of Physiology and Biochemistry at the Royal University of Malta.
1969 - 1972 Research Fellow and Honorary Registrar, Department of Respiratory Diseases, Edinburgh
1972 Lecturer in Clinical Physiology at the Royal University of Malta.
1976 Tenured Lecturer, Royal University of Malta.
1978 - 1981 Associate Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Kuwait and Consultant Physician to the Ministry of Health and Head of Department in Kuwait.
1981 - 1982 Associate Professor in Clinical Pharmacology in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Kuwait,
1983 - present date Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Malta
1988 - present date Part-time Consultant Respiratory Physician, St. Luke's Teaching Hospital, Malta
1991 - 1995 Chairman of the Council of Europe's Committee for Higher Education and Research.
1991 - present date Professor and Head, Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Malta.
1991 - 1996 Pro-Rector, University of Malta
1996 - June 2006 Rector, University of Malta

Publications [ Top Of Page ]

Ellul-Micallef R., Borthwick R.C. and McHardey G.J.R. (1974). "The time course of response to prednisolone in chronic bronchial asthma." Clin Sci and Mol Med, 47, 105- 117.

Ellul-Micallef R. and Fenech F.F. (1975) "Effects of Intravenous Prednisolone in Asthmatics with diminished Adrenergic Responsiveness". Lancet, ii, 1269-1271.

Ellul-Micallef R., Borthwick R.C. and McHardy G.J.R. (1980) "The effect of oral prednisolone on gas exchange in chronic bronchial asthma. Br J. Clin Pharmacol, 9,479-482.

Ellul-Micallef R.(1982) The acute effects of corticosteroids in bronchial asthma. Eur J Resp Dis (supp 122) 63, 118-125

Ellul-Micallef R. and Johansson S.A. (1983) Acute dose response studies with a new corticosteroid-Budesonide. Br. J Clin Pharmacol, 15, 419-422

Ellul-Micallef R. (1983). "The effect of terbutaline sulphate in chronic "allergic" cough. Br Med J, 287, 940-943.

Ellul-Micallef R. [1993]. The effects of inhaled steroids on the hypothalamic-pituitary adrenal axis, in Efficacy and Safety of Inhaled Steroids in Asthma Am. Rev. Respir. Dis. 148, S10-S13.

Ellul-Micallef R. Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of Glucocorticoids in Drug Therapy for Asthma. Eds Jenne JW and Murphy S. Marcel Dekker, Inc, New York, 1987, pp 463-516

Ellul-Micallef R "Glucocorticoids in Asthma, Basic mechanisms and chemical management", eds. Barnes P.J., Thomas N.C. and Roger I.W., 2nd edition Academic Press Inc., London, 1992, pp 613-657.

Ellul-Micallef R. Hypothalamic-Pituitary Adrenal Function in Asthma in Bronchial Asthma. Mechanisms and Therapeutics. 3rd edition, eds. Weiss E B and Stein M. Little, Brown and Company, Boston 1993, pp 842-853

Ellul-Micallef R. History of Bronchial Asthma in Asthma Vol. 1, eds Barnes P.J., Grunstein M.M., Leff A.R., Woolcock A.J. Lippincott Raven, Philadelphia and New York, 1997, pp 9-25.



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