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Date
28 September 2020
In this interview Brian Draper speaks with David Ames who for over 30 years has combined clinical and research interests in old age psychiatry. He served as secretary of the Section of Psychiatry of Old Age in the early 1990s and was very active in the International Psychogeriatric Association. David was awarded a College Citation in 2017.
Professor David Ames
David Ames AO, BA, MD, BS, FRCPsych, FRANZCP studied Medicine at the University of Melbourne and trained in psychiatry at Royal Melbourne, Friern and Royal Free Hospitals. His MD thesis (1989) concerned late life depression in residential care. After cofounding Melbourne’s first memory Clinic (1988) he was successively Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor, Professor and now Emeritus Professor within the University of Melbourne Academic Unit for Psychiatry of Old Age, based at a series of hospitals and the National Ageing Research Institute. He edited International Psychogeriatrics 2003-2011. Now he is part time practice a an old age psychiatrist at Epworth Camberwell and St George’s Hospitals and continues to assist research in the Australian Imaging Biomarkers and Lifestyle study which he led 2006-2019.
David Ames AO, BA, MD, BS, FRCPsych, FRANZCP studied Medicine at the University of Melbourne and trained in psychiatry at Royal Melbourne, Friern and Royal Free Hospitals. His MD thesis (1989) concerned late life depression in residential care. After cofounding Melbourne’s first memory Clinic (1988) he was successively Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor, Professor and now Emeritus Professor within the University of Melbourne Academic Unit for Psychiatry of Old Age, based at a series of hospitals and the National Ageing Research Institute. He edited International Psychogeriatrics 2003-2011. Now he is part time practice a an old age psychiatrist at Epworth Camberwell and St George’s Hospitals and continues to assist research in the Australian Imaging Biomarkers and Lifestyle study which he led 2006-2019.
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