One of the strategic goals of the AASM Foundation is to develop the careers of sleep and circadian investigators by offering award opportunities for sleep researchers at various stages of their research careers. The AASM Foundation recently launched the application cycle for the 2019 [...]
The American Academy of Sleep Medicine Foundation is now accepting letters of intent from organizations and individuals interested in applying for the new Community Sleep Health Award. The program will support a wide range of community-based projects to address sleep health needs at the [...]
Andrew W. Varga, MD, PhD, is a recipient of three AASM Foundation awards that allowed him to secure two large federal grants. Read more about Dr. Varga’s research on how obstructive sleep apnea impacts memory. Andrew W. Varga, MD, PhD, is an assistant professor [...]
Alberto Ramos, MD, MSPH and Azizi Seixas, PhD, made history by being the first underrepresented minority sleep scientists to co-chair the Young Investigators Research Forum in 2019. Read more about their involvement in AASM Foundation programs aimed at growing the pipeline of early career [...]
Marietta B. Bibbs, RPSGT, has been a Gold Level donor for the past two years and was a member of the 2018-2019 AASM Scoring Manual Editorial Board. Ms. Bibbs is a system manager for Sleep Disorders Services and clinical research coordinator at BayCare Health [...]
The AASM Foundation thanks everyone who participated in our SLEEP 2019 fundraising raffle. All proceeds from ticket sales directly support our career development, high-impact research, clinical training and community award programs. We also want to congratulate all of our lucky winners including Ms. Morgan [...]
The AASM Foundation recently awarded $300,000 in career development awards to support early career sleep physician scientists. The funded projects will explore the relationship between obstructive sleep apnea and death, sleep and recovery in stroke survivors, and insomnia among the elderly population. The AASM [...]
The AASM Foundation recently provided additional relief funds of $5,000 each to sleep centers that are recovering from natural disasters. EENA Comprehensive Neurology & Sleep Center in Boynton Beach, Florida, continues to rebuild from Hurricane Irma. Initial funds given to EENA in 2017 helped [...]
An award recipient’s work leads to larger federal funding Omar Mesarwi, MD, is an assistant clinical professor of medicine at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine. He received the 2017 Physician Scientist Training Award for his project, “Mechanisms of Liver Fibrosis [...]
Terri E. Weaver, PhD, RN, FAAN, ATSF supports the AASM Foundation as a current member of the AASM Foundation Development Council. Dr. Weaver is dean at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Nursing and a past AASM board member. She is known [...]
