My gratitude for your dedication to the sleep field

Pricey AASM colleagues — As we have fun Thanksgiving, I want to categorical my heartfelt gratitude to every of you for the dedication and experience you convey to our discipline. Very similar to the coordinated efforts it takes to organize a vacation celebration, our work as sleep professionals depends on the mixed abilities of numerous people working collectively towards our widespread mission. Your contributions — whether or not in analysis, affected person care, training, or administration — function important components to advance sleep care and improve sleep well being to enhance lives. I thanks for the affect you make day-after-day.

My Thanksgiving contribution is dishwasher. It’s not a glamorous position, and I admit to some annual grumbling when surveying the preliminary post-meal kitchen scene and realizing the household as soon as once more discovered a approach to make use of each plate, utensil, glass, pot, pan, gadget, and serving dish in the home! Nevertheless, the gathering wouldn’t be full with out the behind-the-scenes clean-up. AASM members equally sort out duties that will typically appear unremarkable however are essential to the larger image. I’m particularly grateful this Thanksgiving for all of you who embrace these unsung roles, comparable to mentoring, advocating, or tending to affected person care particulars. Collectively, we create one thing extraordinary.

Thanks for being a part of this unbelievable group, and will the vacation convey you and your households pleasure and peace.

Heat regards,

Eric J. Olson, MDAASM President