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Date
3 August 2020
Brian Draper speaks with Sid Williams who developed an old age psychiatry service at Lidcombe Hospital in the 1980s working alongside the geriatric medical services and including the first carer oriented multidisciplinary memory clinic in Australia. He received the RANZCP Ian Simpson Award in 2014.
Dr Sid Williams
Sid Williams MBBS FRANZCP, formerly Associate Professor at the University of Sydney, had a prominent role in the renaissance of the Psychiatry of Old Age discipline in Australia, raising public and health professional awareness of dementia, other disorders of brain function, and facilitating education for health professionals, students and carers. With others he developed: the first Australian carer-oriented, multidisciplinary outpatient dementia clinic; Psychiatry of Old Age services at Lidcombe, Bankstown-Lidcombe and Braeside Hospitals; and a multidisciplinary course at the NSW Institute of Psychiatry. In later years he provided services to rural and regional NSW and outer south-west Sydney.
Sid Williams MBBS FRANZCP, formerly Associate Professor at the University of Sydney, had a prominent role in the renaissance of the Psychiatry of Old Age discipline in Australia, raising public and health professional awareness of dementia, other disorders of brain function, and facilitating education for health professionals, students and carers. With others he developed: the first Australian carer-oriented, multidisciplinary outpatient dementia clinic; Psychiatry of Old Age services at Lidcombe, Bankstown-Lidcombe and Braeside Hospitals; and a multidisciplinary course at the NSW Institute of Psychiatry. In later years he provided services to rural and regional NSW and outer south-west Sydney.
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