2011 Focused Projects Award – Humanitarian Projects As an anthropologist, James Spilsbury, PhD, studies the social and cultural context of sleep, with a special focus on the effects of violence on disadvantaged children’s health and well-being. An Assistant Professor in the Center for Clinical [...]

2009 Physician Scientist Training Award In 2009 David Plante, MD, received an American Academy of Sleep Medicine Foundation (AASM Foundation) Physician Scientist Training Award, a grant that supports a one-year sleep research fellowship either before or following a clinical sleep fellowship. The grant enabled [...]

2011 Focused Projects Award – Humanitarian Projects One of four American Academy of Sleep Medicine Foundation (AASM Foundation) Humanitarian Projects Awards for 2011 was given to Sleeping Children Around the World (SCAW), a registered Canadian charity that distributes bedkits worldwide to children in disadvantaged [...]

2011 Focused Projects Award – Humanitarian Projects One of four American Academy of Sleep Medicine Foundation (AASM Foundation) Humanitarian Projects Awards for 2011 was given to Sweet Dreamzzz, a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the health, well-being and academic performance of school-aged children by [...]

2003 Young Investigator Award In 2003, Dean Beebe was an assistant professor with a PhD in neuropsychology and an interest in sleep medicine, but his career path could have taken a couple of different directions. That changed after Dr. Beebe was granted a Young [...]

2010 Focused Projects Award – Educational Projects Alon Avidan, MD, MPH is working to bring sleep medicine principles to family physicians by offering continuing medical education (CME) programs online. A grant from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine Foundation (AASM Foundation) is helping to [...]

2011 Strategic Research Awards In 2009 the American Academy of Sleep Medicine Foundation (AASM Foundation) created the Strategic Research Awards grant program to support research that addresses significant knowledge gaps in the field of sleep medicine. The first cycle of the grant program requested [...]

2010 ABSM Junior Faculty Research Award Receiving a 2010 ABSM Junior Faculty Research Award from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine Foundation (AASM Foundation) helped clear the way for Ina Djonlagic, MD, to earn a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The [...]

2006 Career Advancement Study Award The educational and professional path of American Academy of Sleep Medicine member Kevin Hellman, PhD, demonstrates how the American Academy of Sleep Medicine Foundation (AASM Foundation) can play a vital role in the career development of a young sleep [...]