Dr. Abela is a Consultant Anaesthetist at Mater Dei Hospital who completed specialist training at the College of Anaesthetists in Dublin Ireland in 2002 after a 7 year specialist training program. During this period he also completed additional training in Intensive Care Medicine and in Pain Medicine. Dr Abela runs a Pain Clinic at Mater Dei Hospital that treats patients with chronic painful conditions and performs interventional pain procedures and neuromodulation therapies. Dr Abela is also an Intensive Care Consultant and for the last ten years held the position of ITU Lead Clinician. He also has a special interest in transplantation and in patient safety and chairs a committee for patient safety and quality of care. Dr. Abela graduated as Doctor of Medicine and Surgery from the Malta Medical School in 1991 and held positions of Secretary and then President of the Association of Anaesthesists Malta and also similar positions at the European Board of Anaesthesiology UEMS. Dr Abela was recently appointed Deputy Chairman of the Department of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine.