DARIEN, IL – The American Academy of Sleep Drugs board of administrators has appointed Dr. Safwan Badr because the third editor-in-chief of the Journal of Scientific Sleep Drugs. His five-year time period will start Jan. 1, 2025.
The Journal of Scientific Sleep Drugs is the unique supply of AASM scientific follow tips, place statements, and different steerage, in addition to peer-reviewed sleep and circadian analysis, systematic critiques, commentaries, and editorials. Earlier this yr, the AASM board of administrators permitted a brand new strategic plan for the journal. Badr will probably be answerable for elevating the journal’s place because the premier scientific publication for human sleep and circadian science, rising the journal’s affect inside educational and scientific medication, and guaranteeing its relevance to the neighborhood of sleep and circadian clinicians and scientists.
“We’re excited to start the subsequent part within the development and improvement of the Journal of Scientific Sleep Drugs, and we’re assured that Dr. Badr will implement methods to advance a daring imaginative and prescient for the journal’s future,” stated AASM President Dr. Eric J. Olson. “I’m thrilled that Dr. Badr will lead our journal, and I do know that he’ll efficiently construct upon the inspiration established by his predecessors, Dr. Stuart Quan and Dr. Nancy Collop.”
Badr, who served as president of the AASM from 2013 – 2014, is the chair of the Wayne State College Faculty of Drugs Division of Inside Drugs in Detroit, Michigan. He’s additionally a professor of inner medication and physiology, a employees doctor on the John D. Dingell VA Medical Middle, and the chief scientific officer of the Wayne State College Doctor Group.
As a famend physician-scientist and analysis mentor, Badr has experience in sleep-disordered respiratory, central sleep apnea, and spinal twine damage. He has present funding from the U.S. Division of Veterans Affairs and the Nationwide Institutes of Well being, and his analysis publications have been cited greater than 31,000 instances. He has developed editorial experience as an affiliate editor of the American Journal of Respiratory and Important Care Drugs, Respirology, and the Journal of Spinal Twine Drugs.
“I’m honored to be chosen as the subsequent editor-in-chief of the Journal of Scientific Sleep Drugs, and I’ll try to make sure that it’s the premier scientific publication in our discipline,” stated Badr. “Because the main skilled society in sleep medication, the AASM and its members deserve a world-class journal, and it is going to be my responsibility to fulfill that expectation.”
The AASM started publishing the Journal of Scientific Sleep Drugs in 2005 below the management of Dr. Stuart Quan, who served as founding editor-in-chief for 10 years. He was succeeded in 2015 by Dr. Nancy Collop, who will full her tenure as editor-in-chief in December.
The Journal of Scientific Sleep Drugs is revealed month-to-month at jcsm.aasm.org.
In regards to the American Academy of Sleep Drugs
Established in 1975, the AASM advances sleep care and enhances sleep well being to enhance lives. The AASM has a mixed membership of 12,000 accredited sleep facilities and people, together with physicians, scientists and different well being care professionals who look after sufferers with sleep issues. Because the chief within the sleep discipline, the AASM units requirements and promotes excellence in sleep medication well being care, training and analysis.
