Alfredo Ardila

Alfredo Ardila (September 4, 1946 - January 9, 2021) is a Colombian neuropsychologist living in Miami, USA. He graduated as a psychologist from the National University of Colombia and received a doctoral degree in neuropsychology from the Moscow State University where he was working with Alexander R. Luria. He has published in cognitive and behavioral neurosciences, especially in neuropsychology.
Ardila has been President of the Latin American Association of Neuropsychology (ALAN), Latin American Society of Neuropsychology, Hispanic Neuropsychological Society, and member of the Board of Governors of the International Neuropsychological Society.
He has received several academic awards, including the National Prize of Psychology (Colombia, 1980), Alejandro Angel Escobar Award Category Science (Colombia, 1997), Prize CNC in Latin American Neuroscience] (Spain, 2012)ref, and Honor Vygotsky Prize (Portugal, 2016).
He is full Professor at the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders , Florida International University (Miami). He is also Honorary Professor at the School of Medicine, University of Chile, Honorary Member of the School of Medicine, University of Antioquia, and Visiting professor at the Department of Psychology of the Moscow State University.