Medical, Scientific & Memory Screening Advisory Board
AFA’s Medical, Scientific, and Memory Screening Advisory Board is comprised of a diverse group of professionals who are leading experts in the care, treatment, and research of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. The Advisory Board includes medical doctors, researchers, scientists, geriatric psychiatrists, nurse practitioners and other specialists who provide expert insight and opinions on scientific issues in the field of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. Each member volunteers their time and brings their own expertise and perspective to various scientific and medical research initiatives that the AFA engages in. They also assist with the development of AFA policies, programs and advocacy efforts related to research and care.
Advisory Board Members
Chair: J. Wesson Ashford, Jr., M.D., Ph.D.
Director, War-Related Illness and Injury Study Center at the Palo Alto campus of the VA Palo Alto Health Care System (CA WRIISC), and Clinical Professor (affiliated), Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Staff, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University
Peter Bayley, Ph.D.
Director of Research, War-Related Illness and Injury Study Center at the Palo Alto campus of the VA Palo Alto Health Care System (CA WRIISC), and Clinical Associate Professor (affiliated), Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University
Nathaniel A. Chin, M.D.
Medical Director, Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer’s Prevention Study
Margaret Dean, APRN, NP-C, MSN, FAANP
Retired Faculty and Geriatric NP
Texas Tech Health Sciences Center
Lori Frank, Ph.D.
President, Women’s Health Access Matters (WHAM)
Lee Hyer, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychiatry at the Mercer School of Medicine, Georgia Neurosurgical Institute
Jeremy Koppel, M.D.
Co-Director, Litwin-Zucker Center for the Study of Alzheimer’s Disease, Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research
Assistant Professor, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
Monica Parker, M.D.
Associate Professor of Neurology, Director of the Outreach, Recruitment, and Education (ORE), and the Minority Engagement Core (MEC), Emory University’s Goizueta Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center
George Perry, Ph.D.
Professor, Semmes Foundation Distinguished University Chair in Neurobiology at the University of Texas at San Antonio
Richard E. Powers, M.D.
Adjunct Professor, Departments of Pathology and Psychiatry, UAB School of Medicine
Allison B. Reiss, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine, NYU Grossman Long Island School of Medicine and Head, Inflammation Laboratory, Biomedical Research Institute, NYU Langone Hospital-Long Island
Frederick Schmitt, Ph.D.
Professor, Departments of Neurology, Psychiatry, Neurosurgery, Behavioral Sciences, and Psychology, Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center, University of Kentucky
Emeritus Members
Soo Borson, M.D.
Professor Emerita, University of Washington School of Medicine, Affiliate Professor, Nursing, at the University of Washington, and Research Professor at the University of Minnesota
Jeffrey L. Cummings, M.D., Sc.D.
Director, Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience, UNLV, Joy Chambers Professor of Brain Science, Department of Brain Health, UNLV, Founding Director, Cleveland Clinic, Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health
Sanford I. Finkel, M.D.,
Clinical Professor, Psychiatry, University of Chicago Medical School
Posthumous Emeritus Members
Herman Buschke, M.D.
Peter Davies, Ph.D.
