School of Tropical Medicine
In 1911, his proposal for an Institute of Tropical Medicine (Later renamed School of Tropical Medicine) in Puerto Rico was approved by the president of the Puerto Rican Senate, Antonio R. Barceló who presented the necessary legislation that gave Governor Horace Towner and his cabinet, the economic resources to create the school. After serving as a commander of the Army Medical Department’s First Division during World War I, Colonel Ashford was assigned to San Juan and campaigned for the development of "a real school of tropical medicine in the American tropics".
The School of Tropical Medicine of Puerto Rico was formally dedicated in 1925. After a 30-year Army career, Dr. Ashford assumed a full-time faculty position at the School and continued his interest in tropical medicine. Together with doctors Isaac González Martínez and Ramón M. Suárez Calderon, he continued to carry out his experiments in regard to anemia. The University of Puerto Rico campus at Rio Piedras, the building of the Institute of Tropical Medicine (see drawings) in Puerta de Tierra, San Juan, is one of the few examples of the Neo-Plateresque architectural style in the Island.
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