Basic HTML Version
AASM Membership Sections Newsletter Issue #1
8
American Academy
of Sleep Medicine
through investigator-initiated Projects,
as well as from the National Institutes of
Health (NIH). She is an associate editor for
Frontiers in Chronobioneurology
and
Sleep
Medicine
, and a member of the editorial
board for the journals of
The American Jour-
nal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
(AJRCCM)
,
Sleep Medicine
,
Journal of Clini-
cal Sleep Medicine
and
The Scientific World
Journal
. She is also a program committee
member of the Assembly on Sleep and
Respiratory Neurobiology of the American
Thoracic Society as well as Vice-Chair for
steering committee of the American Acad-
emy of Sleep Medicine. Dr Kheirandish-
Gozal was named the Professional Woman
of the Year by National Association of Pro-
fessional Women in 2011 and is the recipient
of Order of Extraordinary Merit from the
Peruvian Medical Association.
Narong Simakajornboon, MD
is the Medi-
cal Director of the Sleep Disorders Center
and Fellowship Director, Pediatric Sleep
Medicine Fellowship Training Program
at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medi-
cal Center. He earned his medical degree
from Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital,
Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand. He
completed training in Pediatrics at Chil-
dren Hospital of Michigan and Pediatric
Pulmonology and Sleep Medicine at Tulane
University School of Medicine. His research
interest is developmental neurobiology of
sleep and respiratory control, childhood
restless leg syndrome and periodic limb
movement disorders of sleep in children.
He is the co-investigator of NIH grants and
Shriner’s Hospital for Children grant. He is
on the editorial board of journals such as
Pediatric Asthma, Allergy & Immunology
and
The Open Pediatric Medicine Journal
. He
has published several peer-reviewed articles,
abstracts and book chapters. He is the lead
investigator of the pediatric working group
of the Sleep Research Network.
Oliviero Bruni, MD
received his MD in
1982 from the “Sapienza” University of
Rome (Italy) where he also received the
specialization in Child Neuropsychiatry
in 1986. He is chief of the Pediatric Sleep
Centre of the Department of Developmen-
tal Medicine and Psychiatry of the Sapienza
University of Rome (Italy). Dr. Bruni has
been secretary of the European Pediatric
Sleep Club of the European Sleep Research
Society and in 2009 was elected as Chair of
the Childhood Sleep Disorders and Devel-
opment Section of the American Academy
of Sleep Medicine. He is the current Presi-
dent of the International Pediatric Sleep As-
sociation, member of the Board of Directors
of the Italian Association of Sleep Medicine
and of the Italian Sleep Research Society,
and Field Editor (Pediatrics) of the journal
Sleep Medicine
. His specific areas of interest
are the different aspects of sleep disorders
in children, the application of computer
analysis in human sleep electroencephalo-
gram and of the Cyclic Alternating Pattern,
the analysis of sleep patterns in cognitive
deficits ranging from mental retardation to
specific sleep disorders.
Reut Gruber, PhD
completed her training
in Clinical Child Psychology from Tel-Aviv
University, Israel. She was then a visiting
fellow at the National Institute of Health
in the US. Currently, she is a an Assistant
Professor in the Department of Psychiatry,
McGill University, and the Director of the
Attention, Behavior and Sleep Laboratory at
the Douglas Mental Health University In-
stitute / McGill University. She is a clinical
child psychologist and an expert in pediat-
ric sleep medicine. She is a clinical scientist,
educator, and practitioner who has won the
FRSQ Young Investigator Award (Bourse de
Chercheur-Boursier du FRSQ), the CIHR
New Investigator Award and is the recipient
of grants from the Canadian Institute of
Health Research (CIHR) and the Canadian
Foundation for Innovation (CFI), The
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research
Council of Canada (NSERC), and Fonds
de la recherches en santé (FRSQ), in which
she has examined the interplay between
sleep and neurobehavioral functioning and
health in normally developing children as
well as in children with ADHD. She has also
developed a model of collaboration with
schools “Sleep for Success” that provides
expanded educational opportunities in sci-
ence, and educates children and teenagers
about the importance of sleep. She is the
Treasurer and an Executive Member of the
Canadian Sleep Society Canadian Sleep
Society, as well as a member of the Inter-
national Scientific Committee of the World
Association of Sleep Medicine. She created
an interactive video on the value of sleep in
school which she presented at the last APSS
meeting in 2011.
Steering Committee Profiles
continued
and Daniel Picchietti (pediatric RLS),
are some of the members involved in
these activities.
Membership Survey
Important information has been con-
veyed from respondents to the first-
ever online survey to the activities of
all eight AASM membership sections.
Common suggestions included: devel-
oping other ways to provide educa-
tional activities outside of the APSS
meeting (e.g., webinars), improving
and increasing the frequency of com-
munication with the section members,
and making the benefits of section
membership more explicit. Our future
efforts will indeed reflect the influence
of these thoughtful suggestions.
Communication
with the Section
Steering Committee
We wish to thank the active members
of the Childhood Sleep Disorders and
Development section for the partici-
pation at the APSS section meetings,
and for their evaluation of our work
and suggestions for our efforts. We
strongly encourage all AASM mem-
bers to consider selecting section
affiliation. Even if you do not opt to
have Childhood Sleep Disorders and
Development section as your primary
section affiliation, you can select as
many secondary section member-
ships as you wish. As your elected
leadership, our effectiveness is directly
related to receiving the benefit of the
wisdom and insights of our section
members. Please contact us with your
feedback and suggestions by email-
ing
. We
would like to increase the member-
ship of our section, and are planning
many measures to improve awareness
and enrollment.
Accomplishments of the Section
continued