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Miss Farrugia completed her training in Paediatric Surgery, becoming a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, in 2008. Thereafter she underwent a two-year UK national training fellowship in Paediatric Urology. She trained in leading centres including Great Ormond Street Hospital, Kings College, St George's Hospital and the Oxford Radcliffe.

Miss Farrugia has a research interest in fetal and perinatal urinary tract abnormalities, having completed a research MD on fetal bladder outlet obstruction at the University of London Institute of Child Health. She was awarded the American Academy of Pediatrics travelling fellowship to the Boston Children's Hospital and the Johns Hopkins Hospital Baltimore for her research work on the obstructive megaureter, and has published the national consensus statement on this condition on behalf of the British Association of Paediatric Urologists.

She became a Consultant Paediatric Urologist at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, in 2011. She is amongst the first robotic paediatric surgeons in the UK and is skilled in minimally-invasive paediatric urology. Miss Farrugia is the Lead for Paediatric Surgery in Chelsea & Westminster Hospital and Imperial College Hospitals. She is an honorary senior lecturer at Imperial College, and has published numerous research articles, invited reviews, educational modules and book chapters. Her specialty areas include prenatally-diagnosed urinary tract conditions and their postnatal management; vesico-ureteric (kidney) reflux congenital megaureter.

Outside work, Miss Farrugia is a Crossfit and yoga enthusiast, and likely to be found practicing hand-stands.

Diseases, Medical Tests and Treatments

• Hypospadias repair
• Chordee repair
• Foreskin reconstruction
• Orchidopexy
• Hydrocoele/ hydrocele repair
• Hernia repair
• Testicular fixation
• Preputioplasty
• Division of preputial adhesions
• Revision circumcision
• Kidney reflux treatment
• Cystoscopy
• Endoscopic reflux treatment
• Deflux injection
• Ureteric reimplantation
• Pyeloplasty
• Nephrectomy
• Hemi-nephrectomy
• Division of labial adhesions
• Ureterocoele puncture
• Paediatric Urology
• Pediatric Urology
• Fetal urology
• Prenatal hydronephrosis
• Kidney issues in pregnancy
• Enlarged kidney in pregnancy
• Fetal urology
• Fetal kidney problems
• Posterior urethral valves
• Urine infections
• Urinary tract infection
• Pyelonephritis
• Bed-wetting
• Vaginitis
• Vesico-ureteric reflux
• Kidney reflux
• PUJ obstruction
• VUJ obstruction
• Duplex kidneys
• Ureterocoele
• Dilated kidney
• Hydronephrosis
• Dilated ureter
• Hypospadias
• Chordee
• Penile abnormalities
• Genital abnormalities
• Hooded foreskin
• Phimosis
• Balanitis
• Preputial adhesions
• Penile pain
• Bladder pain
• Urinary frequency
• Needing the toilet frequently
• Daytime accidents
• Scrotal swelling
• Painful testicle
• Enlarged testicle
• Paediatric Urologist
• Pediatric urologist
• Fetal urologist