The AASM Foundation recently awarded $300,000 in career development awards to support early career sleep physician scientists. The funded projects will explore the relationship between obstructive sleep apnea and death, sleep and recovery in stroke survivors, and insomnia among the elderly population. The AASM [...]
The AASM Foundation recently provided additional relief funds of $5,000 each to sleep centers that are recovering from natural disasters. EENA Comprehensive Neurology & Sleep Center in Boynton Beach, Florida, continues to rebuild from Hurricane Irma. Initial funds given to EENA in 2017 helped [...]
An award recipient’s work leads to larger federal funding Omar Mesarwi, MD, is an assistant clinical professor of medicine at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine. He received the 2017 Physician Scientist Training Award for his project, “Mechanisms of Liver Fibrosis [...]
Terri E. Weaver, PhD, RN, FAAN, ATSF supports the AASM Foundation as a current member of the AASM Foundation Development Council. Dr. Weaver is dean at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Nursing and a past AASM board member. She is known [...]
We’d like to welcome Dr. Cathy Goldstein as the AASM Foundation’s first Guest Social Media Curator! Over the next few weeks, she will be sharing engaging content on our Instagram account, so be sure to give us a follow at @aasmfoundation. Dr. Goldstein completed [...]
The AASM celebrated Employee Appreciation Day on Friday, March 1, with special activities during an extended lunch with carnival games, cotton candy and a pie throwing contest! AASM staff purchased tickets to throw pies at senior staff including Executive Director, Steve Van Hout. AASM [...]
AASM Foundation award recipient continues sleep endoscopy research A new multi-center cohort study of adults who underwent pharyngeal surgery for obstructive sleep apnea explores the importance of drug-induced sleep endoscopy (DISE). Eric Kezirian, MD, MPH, is the principal investigator and senior author of the [...]
The AASM Foundation congratulates the 33 junior researchers selected to attend the 2019 Young Investigators Research Forum to be held April 10-12, 2019 in Bethesda, Maryland. This unique educational event will allow the selected young investigators to interact with senior sleep investigators, peers, [...]
On Dec. 20, AASM employees gathered together to celebrate two decades of research awards that directly impact the clinical practice of AASM members. The gathering honored the launch of the AASM Foundation’s year-end campaign challenge for sleep professionals to make a gift of $20 [...]
Stephen H. Sheldon, DO, is a longtime supporter of the AASM Foundation. Dr. Sheldon is a professor of pediatrics and neurology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, and the director of the Sleep Medicine Center at Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital [...]
