Beattie Smith Lecture

Emeritus Professor David Ames AO who has specialised in old age psychiatry since 1985 presented "Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease – a psychiatrist’s view" at the Annual Department of Psychiatry Beattie Smith Lecture on Tuesday, 8 May 2018 .

His talk reviewed some of the progress that has been made in our understanding of dementia due to Alzheimer’s disease over the past three decades, with specific reference to work undertaken by staff of the University of Melbourne.