Ames, David, 1954-

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Name (Latin)
Ames, David, 1954-
Date of birth
1954-11-24
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 17376534
Wikidata: Q5230752
Library of congress: n 93804295
HAI10: 000022239
Sources of Information
  • Guide to the psychiatry of old age, 2022:ECIP t.p. (David Ames) galley (Emeritus Professor David Ames AO, BA, MD, FRCPsych, FRANZCP, University of Melbourne Academic Unit for Psychiatry of Old Age)
  • Functional psychiatric disorders of the elderly, c1994:CIP t.p. (David Ames) contr. p. (BA, MD, MRCPsych., FRANZCP, sen. lect. in Psychiatry of Old Age, Univ. of Melbourne, Australia)
  • Phone call to pub., 10/22/93(Full name is David John Ames ; b. 11/24/54; he is not the author of Planning for the aging)
  • NLM files, 10-28-93(hdg.: Ames, David, 1954-)

Wikipedia description:

David John Ames AO (born 1954) is an Australian psychiatrist and academic. In addition to being Emeritus Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Melbourne, he is a part-time consultant psychiatrist at a number of hospitals in Melbourne, a professorial fellow with The National Ageing Research Institute and a research fellow at the Howard Florey Institute. Over his career, Ames has written over 56 book chapters, edited 22 books, and has published over 300 articles in peer-reviewed journals. Ames' main research and clinical interests have been the detection and management of Alzheimer's disease (AD), new therapies for AD, and the care of the depressed elderly. In 2018, Ames was made an Officer of the General Division of the Order of Australia (AO) in the 2018 Australia Day Honours, for distinguished service to psychiatry, particularly in the area of dementia and the mental health of older persons, as an academic, author and practitioner, and as an adviser to professional bodies.

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