Tony Gillam

Tony Gillam (born Shrewsbury, Shropshire, 1961) is a mental health nurse, writer and musician. A long-standing regular contributor to nursing and mental health journals, he has written more than 80 articles and a book, Reflections on Community Psychiatric Nursing (1), (published in 2002.) He founded the Music Workshop Project (which won a MIND Millennium Award in 1997, earning him lifetime membership of the Millennium Awards Fellowship). In 1998, Tony achieved international recognition as the only UK winner of the Lilly Schizophrenia Reintegration Award and, in 2008, was awarded a Meriden Carers’ Award and was highly commended in the Ian Falloon Memorial Awards for his work in the area of family interventions. He is a trainer in Behavioural Family Therapy and also a visiting lecturer at the University of Worcester.