Mental health charity Mind has recently announced Dr Liz Miller as Mind Champion of the Year 2008. The award honours those who have made a significant contribution to challenging discrimination against people with mental health problems. Liz is a practising GP in London and suffers from bipolar disorder. She has written and spoken about her own experience, and co-founded the Doctors’ Support Network, a self-help group for doctors experiencing mental health problems.

Liz is also a founding trustee of Stand to Reason, a UK organisation committed to fighting discrimination and changing attitudes to mental illness, led by people who have experienced mental illness and based on research.

Liz said: “I’m very touched to receive the award. It’s really important that we change attitudes about mental health, and a good starting point is changing attitudes within the medical profession”.

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