Beau Ances, MD, PhD, MSc, FANA
Washington University in St. Louis
Dr. Beau Ances is the inaugural Daniel J. Brennan Professor of Neurology at Washington University in St. Louis (WashU). He is also the inaugural Vice Chair of Faculty Affairs in the Department of Neurology at WashU. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania (1989), completed a master’s in Health Planning and Finance at the London School of Economics (1994), earned both his MD and PhD from the University of Pennsylvania (2001), and completed a neurology residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (2005). He then pursued a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, San Diego (2005–2008). He joined WashU in 2008 and has been there ever since.
Dr. Ances’s laboratory focuses on developing novel neuroimaging methods to assess brain changes caused by neurodegenerative diseases, particularly cognitive changes associated with HIV. He has served on and chaired numerous NIH and private foundation study sections and, more recently, led a National Institutes of Health (NIH) initiative to develop biotypes of central nervous system complications in people living with HIV.
He is the author of over 500 publications (h-index = 81), and his work has been cited by numerous media outlets, including the Associated Press, U.S. News & World Report, Time, Discover, The Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times, and featured in a PBS documentary. Dr. Ances has mentored many undergraduate students, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and clinical fellows. Clinically, he has been recognized as a “Top Doctor” by St. Louis Magazine for several years and treats patients with neurodegenerative diseases due to HIV, Alzheimer’s disease (AD), Down syndrome, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, and long COVID. Dr. Ances will also receive the 2025 Raymond D. Adams Lectureship Award.
ANA2025 Raymond D. Adams Lectureship Award Recipient