Andrew W. Varga, MD, PhD, is a recipient of three AASM Foundation awards that allowed him to secure two large federal grants. Read more about Dr. Varga’s research on how obstructive sleep apnea impacts memory. Andrew W. Varga, MD, PhD, is an assistant professor [...]
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 [...]
Three award recipients collaborate to make a larger impact on sleep medicine Three recipients of the 2017 Strategic Research Award have projects that focus on the role of telemedicine, using the AASM SleepTM platform, in the evaluation and management of patients with insomnia. All [...]
2017 Focused Projects Award Dr. Levenson is a Clinical Psychologist and faculty member within the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. She is also affiliated with the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Health within the Department of Pediatrics, and she conducts [...]
2016 ABSM Junior Faculty Research Award Daniel Combs, MD, entered medical school with interest in neurocognitive effects of chronic disease. During a sleep medicine rotation in his pediatric residency at University of Arizona College of Medicine, Dr. Combs realized that sleep disorders, particularly sleep [...]
2015 Strategic Research Award Renée A. Shellhaas, MD, MS, chose to study the impacts of sleep physiology on newborn infants’ health and development after learning just how relevant complications were for both disabled and otherwise healthy children. She was surprised to learn that while [...]
2013 Physician Scientist Research Award – Best Science In 2012, Brendan P. Lucey, MD, transitioned from being on active duty in the United States Air Force to starting a career as a physician-scientist. He landed as junior faculty in the sleep medicine division in [...]
2010 Strategic Research Award Lynn Marie Trotti, MD, decided to study clarithromycin mostly by chance. A patient with refractory sleepiness was prescribed clarithromycin by her primary care physician for an infection, and subsequently she developed profound insomnia (when clarithromycin was combined with her other [...]
2011 Focused Projects Award – Humanitarian Projects SCAW’s Debbie Dryden provides this personal update. “I know who you are - you are the lady who gave me my blankets!” This simple statement, chirped by a beaming little girl in the dusty schoolyard of the [...]
2011 Physician Scientist Training Award – Best Science Throughout medical school and residency, the goal of Amy Amara, MD, PhD, was to become a physician scientist. Receiving a 2011 Physician Scientist Training Award from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine Foundation (AASM Foundation) helped make [...]
