Dr Farrugia is a consultant gynaecologist and minimal access surgeon at Spencer Private Hospitals and the Chaucer Hospital in Kent, UK. He obtained his MD from the University of Malta in 1990. He became a Fellow of the RCOG in 2015. His PhD, awarded in 2009 by the University of London, focused on the effects of hysteroscopic electrosurgery on uterine tissue. He is accredited in laparoscopy and hysteroscopy by the RCOG since 2000. He has served on the Boards of the ESGE and AAGL.