S. Spafford Ackerly (1895-1981) was distinguished

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of psychiatry, University of Louisville School of Medicine. He was a

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and founded the Kentucky Psychiatric Society, of which he was president. He was vice-president of the

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, and president of the American Orthopsychiatric Society. He was also a charter fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists and a life fellow of the

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. He was a founding member of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry.

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S. Spafford Ackerly
1895 births 1981 deaths 21st-century American physicians American psychiatrists University of Louisville faculty {{US-psychiatrist-stub