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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Jazz Pharmaceuticals is one of the AASM Foundation’s leading corporate supporters. We asked Shay Bujanover, MD, MBA, Global Medical Affairs Therapy Area Head for Neurosciences, some questions about how Jazz Pharmaceuticals’ priorities align with the AASM Foundation’s strategic plan. Jazz Pharmaceuticals and the AASM [...]
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 [...]
In the spirit of the fast approaching holiday season, the AASM Foundation invited members of the sleep community to join our President, Anita V. Shelgikar, MD, MHPE, and her co-host, Jeffrey S. Durmer, MD, PhD, for a special virtual Friendsgiving event on Tuesday, November [...]
To further its mission of promoting discoveries that advance the understanding of sleep for healthier lives, the AASM Foundation offers the Strategic Research Award. This award focuses on addressing gaps in knowledge that impact the ability to provide optimal, patient-centered, cost-effective diagnosis and care [...]
