#GivingTuesday is November 27, but these employees of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine have a head start celebrating the season of giving by making personal contributions to the AASM Foundation. We hope you will join our thoughtful staff by supporting our campaign for sleep [...]
#GivingTuesday is a global giving movement that has been built by individuals, families, organizations, businesses and communities in countries around the world. Millions of people have gathered together to support and champion important causes they believe in and the communities they serve. This year, [...]
The AASM Foundation recently awarded more than $1.4 million in career development and investigator-initiated awards to support sleep investigators across the country. The awardees’ projects aim to fill research gaps in hypersomnia, sleep apnea, insomnia and other high-impact research areas needed to advance the [...]
In 2018, the AASM Young Investigators Research Forum (YIRF) celebrated its 10th anniversary in providing over 200 promising early-career sleep researchers with the guidance, tactics, and strategies necessary to better position themselves for a successful career in clinical sleep research. The three-day research [...]
Recent results from an AASM Foundation-funded study, “Positional sleep therapy during pregnancy may promote maternal and fetal health,” were published in the Aug. 15 issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine. Study co-author Louise O'Brien, PhD, MS, received the Strategic Research Award in [...]
The American Academy of Sleep Medicine Foundation (AASM Foundation) has chosen three sleep scientists to receive career development awards. Their research projects will explore slow wave sleep after stroke, mechanisms of cataplexy, and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in World Trade Center responders. “The AASM [...]
The recent findings from an AASM Foundation Strategic Research Award-funded study, “Recognition and Diagnosis of Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Older Americans,” were published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. The study has also been selected to feature in Wiley’s Research Headlines - [...]
DARIEN, IL - Two students have been chosen as winners of the 2018 American Academy of Sleep Medicine Foundation (AASM Foundation) "Make Time 2 Sleep" High School Video Contest, which focused on motivating teens to prioritize the importance of sleep in their lives. The 2018 contest [...]
Sleep medicine is an ever-changing field, and the American Sleep Medicine Foundation is making changes to stay at the forefront of sleep research! We’ve taken on a new name: We are now the American Academy of Sleep Medicine Foundation (AASM Foundation). This new name reaffirms [...]
The AASM Foundation invited teens to participate in the 2018 “Make Time 2 Sleep” High School Video Contest, which focused on motivating teens to prioritize the importance of sleep in their lives. The contest is open to U.S. high school students in grades 9 [...]
