#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 [...]
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 - [...]
Sleep medicine is an ever-changing field, and the American Sleep Medicine Foundation is making changes to stay at the forefront of sleep research! We’ve taken on a new name: We are now the American Academy of Sleep Medicine Foundation (AASM Foundation). This new name reaffirms [...]
2017 Focused Projects Award Dr. Levenson is a Clinical Psychologist and faculty member within the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. She is also affiliated with the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Health within the Department of Pediatrics, and she conducts [...]
2016 ABSM Junior Faculty Research Award Daniel Combs, MD, entered medical school with interest in neurocognitive effects of chronic disease. During a sleep medicine rotation in his pediatric residency at University of Arizona College of Medicine, Dr. Combs realized that sleep disorders, particularly sleep [...]
2015 Strategic Research Award Renée A. Shellhaas, MD, MS, chose to study the impacts of sleep physiology on newborn infants’ health and development after learning just how relevant complications were for both disabled and otherwise healthy children. She was surprised to learn that while [...]
2013 Physician Scientist Research Award – Best Science In 2012, Brendan P. Lucey, MD, transitioned from being on active duty in the United States Air Force to starting a career as a physician-scientist. He landed as junior faculty in the sleep medicine division in [...]
2010 Strategic Research Award Lynn Marie Trotti, MD, decided to study clarithromycin mostly by chance. A patient with refractory sleepiness was prescribed clarithromycin by her primary care physician for an infection, and subsequently she developed profound insomnia (when clarithromycin was combined with her other [...]
