Prof Nigel Camilleri, Managing Partner
Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist and Sports Psychiatrist

Nigel Camilleri is an associate visiting professor within the University of Malta. He graduated with a MSc in Sports and Exercise Psychology from the University of Staffordshire, UK (2022), and is a certified Sports Psychiatrist by the International Society for Sports Psychiatry (2024). He forms part of the Sports and Exercise Psychiatry special interest group with the Royal College of Psychiatrists (UK).

He studied Medicine and Surgery at the University of Malta where he was awarded an MD in 2003. He trained and qualified as a child and adolescent psychiatrist in Newcastle, UK (2013). He carried out research within the paediatric bipolar team at Newcastle University between 2010 and 2020. He was awarded a post graduate doctorate (MD) from Newcastle University in 2015. Dr Camilleri is also a Uk-Certified ADOS-2 Trainer.

In 2013 he worked as a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist in community CAMHS, Durham, UK. In 2014 he worked as an Adolescent In-patient Young people’s unit and Adolescent Forensic In-patient Unit in Middlesborough, UK, in the Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust. He worked as service lead for CYPS, CAMHS within the Malta Mental Health Services between 2015 and 2024.

Nigel has experience working with both local and international athletes in an array of sports disciplines were he works on the important link between physical activity and mental health, how athletes perform under pressure and wider strategies for handling stress. He works with athletes on the use of the most powerful tool in our body, the human brain, how psychology affects human performance, health and wellbeing.

He has also worked with teams on group dynamics and shared identity leadership.

Nigel is the clinical lead within TAASC and the managing partner for MOVE.