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 [...]
David T. Plante, MD, PhD, received three separate AASM Foundation awards that supported his sleep research career trajectory from his time as a trainee to now being a successful independent clinician-scientist. Read more about how his AASM Foundation awards propelled his career. David T. [...]
We’d like to welcome Dr. Cathy Goldstein as the AASM Foundation’s first Guest Social Media Curator! Over the next few weeks, she will be sharing engaging content on our Instagram account, so be sure to give us a follow at @aasmfoundation. Dr. Goldstein completed [...]
The AASM celebrated Employee Appreciation Day on Friday, March 1, with special activities during an extended lunch with carnival games, cotton candy and a pie throwing contest! AASM staff purchased tickets to throw pies at senior staff including Executive Director, Steve Van Hout. AASM [...]
AASM Foundation award recipient continues sleep endoscopy research A new multi-center cohort study of adults who underwent pharyngeal surgery for obstructive sleep apnea explores the importance of drug-induced sleep endoscopy (DISE). Eric Kezirian, MD, MPH, is the principal investigator and senior author of the [...]
On Dec. 20, AASM employees gathered together to celebrate two decades of research awards that directly impact the clinical practice of AASM members. The gathering honored the launch of the AASM Foundation’s year-end campaign challenge for sleep professionals to make a gift of $20 [...]
#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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
