Welcome

Message from the Honorary President
Prof. Carmel Mallia

As Honorary President of the Association of Arthritis and Rheumatism – Malta, ARAM, I am very pleased to welcome you to the Association’s website.

ARAM is a non-profit organization in Malta composed of patients with arthritis whose aim is to help and support patients with arthritis.  It was founded in 2007 and has been working hard both locally and within the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR), having been elected full member of EULAR patient group in (2008).

The launch of the ARAM website marks an important milestone in the Association’s short but active history.  Through the website the Association hopes to be able to achieve its aims more effectively by increasing contact with more patients with arthritis and so to be in a better position to offer support.  It will be able to provide details of its various activities, both social and educational, the latter mainly consisting of lectures, symposia and discussion groups led by rheumatologists and other health care specialists involved in the care of arthritis patients.  The aim of these activities is to disseminate accurate and independent information to patients with arthritis as well as to the general public.   One of the features of this website will be the setting up of a Question and Answer Page, the answers being provided by specialists, both medical and allied health professionals, in rheumatology.

While I am sure that the Organizing Committee will persist in its hard work to realize the aims of ARAM, the success of the website and indeed of the Association is dependent on feedback from its members, from patients with arthritis and from the general public.  I encourage you to contact the Association to ask questions and make suggestions both regarding the website as well as the working of the Association in general.

I wish ARAM every success in its endeavor to improve the lives of patients with arthritis in Malta.

Prof. Carmel Mallia
MD, FRCP (Lond.), FRCP (Edin.), FCP (Philadelphia), KM
Consultant Physician/Rheumatologist
Professor of Medicine, University of Malta