The AASM Foundation is joining the World Sleep Society to celebrate Word Sleep Day with an interactive activity for children and their parents and/or caregivers. This toolkit includes links to free educational resources and two coloring pages for kids to fill in with crayons, [...]
The American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) Foundation has partnered with the CHEST Foundation to jointly support a research grant in sleep medicine. This new partnership aligns with the AASM Foundation’s strategic goal of improving patient-centered sleep care through high-impact research and the CHEST [...]
The AASM Foundation is committed to developing the careers of sleep and circadian investigators. To meet this goal, the AASM Foundation encourages and supports the development of a diverse and well-trained sleep and circadian research workforce. The AASM Foundation recently launched the Diversity Supplement [...]
The AASM Foundation awarded nearly $400,000 in career development awards to support sleep clinicians and researchers at various stages of their careers. The funded projects will examine racial disparities in the association of slow wave sleep and plasma Aβ42/Aβ40 ratio, study the interaction between [...]
In July 2019, the AASM Foundation launched the Community Sleep Health Award with the aim of supporting projects dedicated to addressing sleep health needs in underserved populations across the country. By gathering data on the sleep habits of adolescents in detention centers, developing and [...]
The AASM Foundation is committed to expanding the pipeline of future physicians interested in sleep medicine by providing a new outreach effort to medical students. The AASM Foundation has partnered with the American Medical Association (AMA) Foundation to fund a new scholarship being administered [...]
Dr. Swanson’s research team From left to right: Leslie Swanson, PhD, Principal Investigator; Trevor de Sibour, Research Assistant; Kelley DuBuc, Research Coordinator Dr. Leslie Swanson is a clinical researcher who, amid a pandemic, is working towards finding new strategies for treating patients with delayed [...]
Dear Colleagues, Challenging times require us to work together in new ways to bring sleep research and career training opportunities to a broader, more diverse population. Working together also enables the AASM Foundation to build new partnerships with our peers allowing us to make [...]
The AASM Foundation congratulates the 24 early career researchers selected to participate in the 13th annual Young Investigators Research Forum, taking place virtually February through August 2021. This unique research training program provides intense career-building and networking opportunities to top early career sleep investigators [...]
The AASM Foundation launched a Corporate Support Program in 2019 to create a new pathway for companies to invest in the sleep medicine community. Itamar Medical supports the AASM Foundation because they are committed to philanthropic support of clinical research and the AASM Foundation’s [...]
