honorific_prefix boards years_active birth_place citizenship awards nationality article_title birth_date known_for residence notable_works employer name occupation alma_mater
dr. memory of america -rrb- screening advisory board chair -lrb- alzheimer 's foundation 1978-present san francisco , united states the united states lindsley prize in behavioral neuroscience -lrb- finalist -rrb- american john wesson ashford
 29 may 1948 memtrax redwood city , california effects and basic memory mechanisms . of alzheimer 's disease on brain 's neuroplasticity va palo alto health care system john wesson ashford psychiatrist neuroscientist university of california , berkeley
john wesson ashford

dr. john wesson ashford is an american psychiatrist and neuroscientist whose expertise includes alzheimer 's disease and its effects on human memory .
ashford is chair of the memory screening advisory board of the alzheimer 's foundation of america , and a senior editor of the journal of alzheimer 's disease .
he also serves as a director of the war related illness and injury study center in the va palo alto health care system , as well as the clinical professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences -lrb- affiliated -rrb- at stanford university .
