Background
Yamamoto, Joe was born on April 18, 1924 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Son of Zenzaburo and Tomie (Yamada) Yamamoto.
Yamamoto, Joe was born on April 18, 1924 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Son of Zenzaburo and Tomie (Yamada) Yamamoto.
Student, Los Angeles City College, 1941-1942; student, Hamline U., 1943-1945; Bachelor of Science, University Minnesota, 1946; Bachelor of Medicine, University of Minnesota, 1948; Doctor of Medicine, University Minnesota, 1949.
Assistant professor department psychiatry, neurology, behavioral science, U. Oklahoma Medical Center, 1955-1958; assistant professor, U. Oklahoma Medical Center, 1958-1960; associate professor department psychiatry, University of Southern California School Medicine, Los Angeles, 1961-1969; professor, University of Southern California School Medicine, 1969-1977; co-director graduate education psychiatry, University of Southern California School Medicine, 1963-1970; professor, University of California at Los Angeles, 1977-1994; emeritus professor, University of California at Los Angeles, since 1994; director, Psychiatric Outpatient Clinic, Los Angeles County-University Southern California Medical Center, 1958-1977; director adult ambulatory care services, University of California at Los Angeles Neuropsychiat. Institute, 1977-1988; chief Laboratory for Cross Cultural Studies, University of California at Los Angeles Neuropsychiat. Institute.
Served to captain, Medical Corps United States Army, 1953-1955. Fellow American Psychiatric Association (life), Pacific Rim College Psychiatrists, American Academy Psychoanalysis (trustee, member executive committee, president 1978-1979), American College Psychiatrists, American Orthopsychiat. Association (president-elect 1993-1994, president 1994-1995, past president), American Association for Social Psychiatry (trustee 1981-1984, vice president 1984-1986).
Member Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute and Society (president 1972-1973), Society for Study of Culture and Psychiatry, Group for Advancement Psychiatry (board directors 1992-1994), Kappa Phi, Alpha Omega Alpha.
Married Maria Fujitomi, September 5, 1947. Children: Eric Robert, Andrew Jolyon.