David Ames, BA, MD, FRCPsych, FRANZCP 
(Australia), Editor, International Psychogeriatrics 

David Ames was born in England and migrated to Australia aged 10. He qualified MB BS from the University of Melbourne in 1978 and commenced training in psychiatry at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in 1982, concluding at the Royal Free Hospital London, UK where he worked with Anthony Mann and Nori Graham. His MD thesis was titled, “depression in old people living in residential care”. In 1987 Dr. Ames returned to Melbourne, becoming University of Melbourne senior lecturer in the psychiatry of old age in 1989, associate professor in 1995 and was the Professor of Psychiatry of Old Age and Director of Aged Psychiatry Service, University of Melbourne Academic Unit for the Psychiatry of Old Age at St. George’s Hospital, Kew, from 2005-2007. Since 3 September 2007 he has been Director of Melbourne’s National Ageing Research Institute and the University of Melbourne Foundation Professor of Ageing & Health.

David has research interests in early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease, neuroimaging, cognitive enhancing medications and most aspects of late life depression. He is the proud possessor of the only Y chromosomes in the house also occupied by his medical administrator wife, two daughters, and a pair of extraordinarily stupid Cavalier King Charles Spaniels. In his spare time he is a passionate enthusiast for opera and the Geelong (Australian Rules) Football Club.

An IPA member since 1987, David Ames served on its Board of Directors from 1995 and was editor of IPA Bulletin 1996-2002. He assisted in the organization of the Sydney IPA Congress (1995) and was chairman of the organizing committee for the joint IPA/FPOA RANZCP meeting held in the coastal resort of Lorne, Australia, from 4-7 February 2001. He has been editor-in-chief of IPA's peer review journal International Psychogeriatrics since January 2003.

He can be contacted at dames@unimelb.edu.au.

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