J. Wesson Ashford, MD, PhD

Dr. J. Wesson Ashford became Chief Medical Officer in March 2014 and has been a collaborator and advisor to Neurotez since 2006. Dr. J. Wesson Ashford is a Senior Research Scientist at the Stanford/VA Aging Clinical Research Center and Alzheimer’s Center, a Clinical Professor (affiliated) in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, the Director of the WRIISC at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System, and a staff psychiatrist at the VAPAHCS. Dr. Ashford is an authority on Alzheimer’s disease, mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and traumatic brain injury (TBI) and experienced in the recognition, diagnosis, and treatment of these and numerous other neuropsychiatric disorders. He has contributed major innovations to the fields of cognitive testing, brain imaging, and dementia treatment, with more than 100 scientific publications on Alzheimer’s disease, MCI, genetic factors in Alzheimer’s disease, and testing methodologies.

Dr. Ashford has been a Scientific Board Member of the Northern California Alzheimer’s Association and is Chair of the Memory Screening Advisory Board for the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America. Dr. Ashford’s training includes a B.A. from UC-Berkeley; an M.D. from the School of Medicine at UCLA; and a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from UCLA, where he set up the Alzheimer’s PET Scan Study. He is a prolific scientific writer and speaker as well as a frequent presenter at international conferences.

Dr. Ashford is an unpaid advisor for MemTrax, LLC, organized by Curtis Ashford. WWW.MemTrax.com provides a free on-line memory game which can help everyone monitor the function of their own memory and help to recognize memory difficulties when they first develop. MemTrax, LLC has partnered with Neurotez, LLC, with the intention of providing more precise cognitive and memory assessment tools to measure functions that are disrupted by Alzheimer’s disease and the potential benefits of treatments for Alzheimer’s disease.