Professor David G Bruce

Professor David G Bruce

David Bruce is an academic geriatrician who has published widely on many aspects of clinical geriatric medicine with a particular focus on diabetes.

He trained at the University of Edinburgh before emigrating to Western Australia in 1979.

He then trained as a general physician in Perth with a special interest in diabetes and completed doctoral studies on the pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes at the Garvan Institute in Sydney.

He subsequently trained in geriatric medicine and has been a consultant geriatrician for over 25 years.

In 1995 he joined the University of Western Australia and is now a Professor of Medicine as well as Head of the Department of Community and Geriatric Medicine at Fremantle Hospital.

He is a principle investigator on the Fremantle Diabetes Study, a long-standing NHMRC-funded cohort study of diabetes, and leads the multidisciplinary cognition sub-study of that project.

He has written on most geriatric giants and his current research interests focus on how diabetes causes or contributes to dementia, cognitive decline and mood disorders in older people.

  • Company:Consultant Physician in Geriatric Medicine, School of Medicine and Pharmacology, Fremantle
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