Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias are a growing public health crisis and individuals with these diseases often have sleep and circadian disturbances. Find out more about the latest management strategies for these patients and areas of research by attending this session at SLEEP 2022. [...]
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 [...]
Arvind Chandrakantan, MD, MBA is a pediatric anesthesiologist and recipient of the AASM Foundation Bridge to Success Grant for Early Career Investigators. Learn more about his research interests and newly funded career development grant. Arvind Chandrakantan, MD, MBA is an associate professor of anesthesiology [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
