Fellow of the Faculty of Radiologists of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland;

Consultant in the Radiology Department of St Luke’s Hospital;

Secretary of the Maltese Radiological Society;

Member of the Bioethics Consultative Committee;

Member of the Medical Special Accreditation Committee;

Co-founder of the Gift of Life group.

Born in Mosta in 1963, Michael was educated at the Archbishop’s Seminary (in Floriana and Tal-Virtu, Rabat) and later obtained his MD from the University of Malta in 1988. He continued his postgraduate studies in medical diagnostic imaging in Ireland at the Adelaide and Meath Hospital, Dublin under Dr Gerald Hurley, dean of the Faculty of Radiologists of the Royal College of Surgeons and president of the European Association of Radiology, and obtained his fellowship in 1998. Michael returned to Malta the following year to resume duties in the Radiology Department of St Luke’s Hospital under the director Dr Malcolm P. Crockford, where he was appointed a consultant radiologist in 2001.

Michael was a truly talented person who achieved great things. His quiet character most effectively hid his tireless zest to do good and his deep belief in the beauty of life and majesty of God dominated all his deeds and actions.

Despite being a deeply religious man, he found no conflict between his Christian faith and science; on the contrary, he saw them as complementing each other in a very subtle manner.

Michael touched the hearts of many and it is so hard to believe that he is no longer among us. Especially close to his heart were his family, his work among the sick at St Luke’s Hospital, the Oratory of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Mosta and the Comunione e Liberazione (CL) group headed by Fr Gino Gauci and Fr Benjamin Galea, as well as his quest in trying to protect the unborn children. Together with the Gift of Life group, he worked hard to make a formal proposal to amend the Maltese Constitution thereby making it more difficult to legalise abortion in this country.

His surviving father Joseph and his brothers Noel and Pierre will be proud of his legacy.

May God grant him eternal peace, love and rest.

Dr A. Gatt

Rabat