Insomnia is an issue that the AASM Foundation takes very seriously. For Insomnia Awareness Night 2022, the AASM Foundation highlights the impact of insomnia in people's lives, as well as what it has done and will continue to do to support insomnia research. [...]
The AASM Foundation is committed to developing the careers of sleep and circadian investigators by increasing support for sleep researchers. To meet this goal, the AASM Foundation has established research career development grants to assist sleep researchers at various stages of their career. Applications [...]
David Kuhlmann, MD, joined the AASM Foundation Board of Directors in 2021. Kuhlmann received his medical degree from the University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas. He completed a residency in Neurology at the University of Indiana in Indianapolis. Kuhlmann is board certified [...]
Ariel A. Williamson, PhD, DBSM, (pronouns: she/her/hers) is a psychologist in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. How [...]
The AASM Foundation is now accepting applications for the 2022-2023 Sleep Research Program for Advancing Careers (SOAR), aimed at increasing the number of early-career investigators who successfully apply for external sleep research funding. By the end of the program, fellows of SOAR will [...]
The AASM Foundation congratulates the twenty-three early career researchers selected to participate in the 14th annual Young Investigators Research Forum, taking place virtually March through May 2022, with in-person meetings in April and June. This competitive research training program provides intense career-building education to early [...]
Raj C. Dedhia, MD, MSCR, and David Kent, MD, are otolaryngologists board-certified in sleep medicine and recipients of the AASM Foundation American Board of Sleep Medicine Junior Faculty Grant. Learn about what made them pursue a career as physician scientists, their research interests and [...]
Tiffany Braley, MD, MS, is a physician scientist and recipient of the AASM Foundation Strategic Research Grant. Her work is focused on positive airway pressure therapy and dementia risk in OSA-affected older adults. Tiffany Braley, MD, MS, is an associate professor of neurology [...]
Omonigho (Michael) Bubu, MD, PhD, MPH, is a physician-scientist that is focused on Alzheimer’s Disease and sleep research among the Black community. He participated in the AASM Foundation’s Young Investigators Research Forum and Sleep Research Program for Advancing Careers. He is also the [...]
The AASM Foundation awarded more than $119,000 in grants that support various community sleep health initiatives across the country and internationally. These projects will create awareness of obstructive sleep apnea and disaster preparedness, identify sleep health education gaps in elementary, high school and [...]
