Troy Gilson
Troy D. Gilson, M.D. lives in Cleveland, TN where he grew up. He Graduated from the University of Tennessee College of Medicine and later became Chief Resident of Psychiatry for the University of Tennessee in Memphis. During his years in Memphis he helped staff and worked one of the largest psychiatric emergency units, given a special recognition award by the Midtown Mental Health Center, and assisted in several clinical studies. He later became a full partner in a successful private practice upon returning to east Tennessee but soon missed the challenge of community psychiatry and worked several years as consultant and later full time staff psychiatrist for Hiawassee Mental Health Center located in Cleveland.
He continues to see some private practice patients at Volunteer Health’s Blue Ridge Psychiatry outpatient service. He has continued to work with the developmentally disabled and is involved with educating other health care providers who evaluated and treat the mental illness. He has been medical director for Volunteer the past few years and had been assistant medical director several years and serves on the consulting medical advisory board of TAMHO.
He is currently and active member of the American Psychiatric Association, The Tennessee Psychiatric Association, a Diplomat of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and a member of the Association of Community Mental Health Psychiatry. He was recognized as one of the top 100 psychiatrists in 2005 by an independent consumer’s magazine and in 2004 lectured on Bipolar Disorder on behalf of Johns Hopkins school of Medicine.
