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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created human Helen Cohn updated 2025-06-12 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P005702b.htm person Burrows Graham Dene AACR2 17 June 1938 10 January 2016 Place of Birth Raetihi, New Zealand Place of Death Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Psychiatrist Graham Burrows had an international reputation in diverse research areas including the mood and anxiety disorders, chronic pain and psychosomatics, and hypnosis. He was influential in the establishment of modern psychopharmacology in Australia. In 1967 he moved to Victoria where he joined he Mental Health Authority, working in a number of psychiatric hospitals. Burrows was appointed to the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Melbourne in 1973, becoming foundation Professor and Director of Psychiatry at the Austin and Repatriation Hospitals ten years later. He was noted as an innovator in areas of clinical practice such as eating disorders, spinal injuries, HIV/AIDS and PTSD. Burrows prolific contributor to psychiatric literature in Australia and overseas. Organisations in which he played active roles included the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (of which he was President), the Australasian Society for Psychiatric Research, the World Federation for Mental Health, the Australian Medical Association (Victoria), and the Collegium Internationale Neuro-Psychopharmacologicum. He was an enthusiastic participant and office bearer in many community health and mental health organisations. 1967 1967 Life event - Migrated to Victoria 1969 1979 Career position - Consultant Psychiatrist, Royal Park Psychiatric Hospital, Melbourne 1973 1979 Career position - First Assistant, Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne 1973 1983 Career position - Research Associate, Howard Florey Institute for Experimental Physiology and Medicine 1983 2008 Career position - Director of Psychiatry, Austin and Repatriation Hospitals, Melbourne 1989 1989 Award - Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in recognition of service to medicine, particularly in the field of psychiatry 2001 2001 Award - Knight Commander of the Order of St John of Jerusalem (KCStJ) 2002 2006 Career position - President, Alzheimer's Association of Victoria 2009 2009 Life event - Retired 2010 2010 Award - Medal of Honour, Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists Royal Society of Victoria (1859 - )

President 2006 - 2008

 Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) (1977 - )

Awarded Medal of Honour 2010

 Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne (1963 - )

Professor of Psychiatry 1983 - 2009

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 'Burrows, Graham Dene', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Burrows, Graham Dene Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: Cade's observation of the antimanic effect of lithium and early Australian research Burrows, Graham D.; and Tiller, John W. Cade's observation of the antimanic effect of lithium and early Australian research 1999 Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 33 supp. 1 S27-S31 Newspaper Article: 'Workaphile' professor's door was always open to patients, staff and bold new ventures: Graham Burrows, mental health expert, 17-6-1938 - 10-1-2016 Anon 'Workaphile' professor's door was always open to patients, staff and bold new ventures: Graham Burrows, mental health expert, 17-6-1938 - 10-1-2016 2016 The Age 2016 36 Book Section: Science was so Much More Exciting: Six Women in the Physical Sciences Rasmussen, Carolyn Science was so Much More Exciting: Six Women in the Physical Sciences Melbourne Text Publishing Company 1993 On the Edge of Discovery: Australian Women in Science Farley Kelly 105-131