As we get able to bid farewell to 2024 and welcome the arrival of a brand new yr, the American Academy of Sleep Medication can also be getting ready to have fun a big milestone in 2025: This yr we acknowledge the AASM fiftieth anniversary! Contemplating how our area has modified dramatically in simply the previous couple of years, it’s astounding to think about how a lot progress has been achieved for the reason that AASM was organized in 1975.
We’re indebted to all these sleep drugs professionals who got here earlier than us. They’d the imaginative and prescient, ardour, and persistence to create a brand new medical specialty, one that will profit thousands and thousands of sufferers all over the world. Sleep drugs pioneers like Dr. William Dement additionally acknowledged the necessity for a brand new skilled residence, and in 1975 they established the American Affiliation of Sleep Dysfunction Facilities, which ultimately turned the AASM.
The AASM fiftieth Anniversary Process Power has been exhausting at work creating content material, planning occasions, and curating sources for this particular commemorative yr. The theme they’ve chosen is, “Sleep and Desires: 50 Years of Shaping the Way forward for Sleep Medication.” I invite you to view the brand new AASM Historical past webpage, which will likely be up to date all year long with extra historic data and video interviews. I stay up for studying extra concerning the historical past of the AASM over the following 12 months, and I feel this data will solely improve my gratitude for all those that paved the best way for us to follow sleep drugs.
Along with celebrating our previous in 2025, the AASM will proceed to implement our strategic plan and advance initiatives to assist our members at present, particularly within the areas of sleep drugs consciousness, follow success, and know-how integration. I’m grateful for our vibrant group of AASM members, volunteers, and leaders, and I stay up for all that we are going to accomplish collectively within the yr forward.
I thanks for supporting the AASM along with your membership, and I want you and your loved ones a Completely happy New 12 months in 2025.
Heat regards,
Eric J. Olson, MDAASM President
