Stephen H. Sheldon, DO, is a longtime supporter of the AASM Foundation. Dr. Sheldon is a professor of pediatrics and neurology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, and the director of the Sleep Medicine Center at Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital [...]
Three award recipients collaborate to make a larger impact on sleep medicine Three recipients of the 2017 Strategic Research Award have projects that focus on the role of telemedicine, using the AASM SleepTM platform, in the evaluation and management of patients with insomnia. All [...]
Neomi Shah, MD, received Bridge funding from the AASM Foundation in 2012. She went on to successfully apply for a federal career-development award, which has resulted in 10 different publications and a subsequent, larger, investigator-initiated grant. Learn more about how her AASM Foundation award [...]
#GivingTuesday is November 27, but these employees of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine have a head start celebrating the season of giving by making personal contributions to the AASM Foundation. We hope you will join our thoughtful staff by supporting our campaign for sleep [...]
#GivingTuesday is a global giving movement that has been built by individuals, families, organizations, businesses and communities in countries around the world. Millions of people have gathered together to support and champion important causes they believe in and the communities they serve. This year, [...]
The AASM Foundation recently awarded more than $1.4 million in career development and investigator-initiated awards to support sleep investigators across the country. The awardees’ projects aim to fill research gaps in hypersomnia, sleep apnea, insomnia and other high-impact research areas needed to advance the [...]
In 2018, the AASM Young Investigators Research Forum (YIRF) celebrated its 10th anniversary in providing over 200 promising early-career sleep researchers with the guidance, tactics, and strategies necessary to better position themselves for a successful career in clinical sleep research. The three-day research [...]
Recent results from an AASM Foundation-funded study, “Positional sleep therapy during pregnancy may promote maternal and fetal health,” were published in the Aug. 15 issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine. Study co-author Louise O'Brien, PhD, MS, received the Strategic Research Award in [...]
The American Academy of Sleep Medicine Foundation (AASM Foundation) has chosen three sleep scientists to receive career development awards. Their research projects will explore slow wave sleep after stroke, mechanisms of cataplexy, and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in World Trade Center responders. “The AASM [...]
The recent findings from an AASM Foundation Strategic Research Award-funded study, “Recognition and Diagnosis of Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Older Americans,” were published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. The study has also been selected to feature in Wiley’s Research Headlines - [...]
