AASM Membership Sections Newsletter Issue #3
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Recent Publications of Interest
Macera, CA, et al. Do sleep problems mediate the relationship between
traumatic brain injury and development of mental health symptoms after
deployment?
SLEEP
2013;36(1):83-90.
Macera and colleagues report a longitudinal study of 29,000 active
Navy and Marine Corp service members who returned from wartime
military operations in Iraq between the years of 2008 to 2009. In this
sample, poor sleep partially mediated the relationship between TBI
Sleep Deprivation Section
2012–2013
CHAIR
Melissa Mallis, PhD
VICE-CHAIR
Francine James, PhD
MEMBERS
Mathias Basner, MD, PhD
Abid Malik, MD
Adrienne Tucker, PhD
The Sleep Deprivation Section Steering Committee addresses a variety of
issues related to sleep loss including those due to extended wake-times,
sleep restriction across days and disrupted sleep due to environmental
conditions and psychiatric disorders. The committee is comprised of
researchers with operational, experimental and clinical expertise who
can provide information on the consequences and effects of sleep loss
on various measures (e.g., performance, alertness and psychological)
and application of appropriate countermeasures to address the resultant
sleepiness and fatigue.
Steering Committee
Profiles
Melissa Mallis, PhD (Chair)
is President and Chief Scientist at
M3 Alertness Management and a
fellow at the George Mason Univer-
sity School of Law, Center for Infra-
structure Protection and Homeland
security. Dr. Mallis focuses her
research on sleep loss and fatigue
risk management in operational
environments in support of policy
and regulatory change.
Francine James, PhD (Vice-Chair)
is an Associate Scientist with the
Institutes for Behavior Resources,
where she investigates the physiol-
ogy of fatigue in the operational
environment. She is a subject
matter expert on the assessment
of performance within fatigue
risk management systems and
consults on the development of
data-driven policy for fatigue risk
management.
Mathias Basner, MD, PhD
is Assistant Professor of Sleep and
Chronobiology in Psychiatry at
the University of Pennsylvania
Perelman School of Medicine.
Dr. Basner’s primary research
interests concern the effects of
sleep loss on neurobehavioral and
cognitive functions, population
studies on sleep time and waking
activities, and the effects of traffic
noise on sleep and recuperation.
Dr. Basner is Deputy Editor of
Preliminary Agenda: Sleep Deprivation Section
Meeting
Baltimore Convention Center
Monday, June 3, 2013 from 5:15pm – 6:15pm
I.
Call to Order – Melissa Mallis, PhD,
Chair
5:15
pm
II.
General Business
5:15
pm-5:18pm
Introduction of 2012-2013 Sleep Deprivation Steering
Committee
Call for Volunteers: 2013-2014 Steering Committee
III.
Section Investigator Award Presentation
5:18
pm-5:30pm
IV.
Data Blitz
5:30
pm-5:45pm
V.
Update on
ICSD
5:45
pm-5:50pm
VI.
OCST Trends and Impact on Section
5:50
pm-5:55pm
VII.
General Discussion
5:55
pm-6:15pm
VIII.
Adjournment
6:15
pm