AWARDS | 2016 PRESENTED by the AMERICAN ACADEMY of SLEEP MEDICINE 2016 Nathaniel Kleitman Distinguished Service Award
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AWARDS | 2016 PRESENTED BY THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF SLEEP MEDICINE 2016 Nathaniel Kleitman Distinguished Service Award AWARD DESCRIPTION Established in 1981, the Nathaniel Kleitman Distinguished Service Award honors individuals dedicated to the sleep field who have made significant contributions in the areas of administration, public relations and government affairs. One of the world’s eminent sleep scientists, Nathaniel Kleitman formed the foundation for many areas of current sleep medicine by conducting groundbreaking research that included studies of REM sleep, circadian rhythms and the effect of drugs on sleep. Through his inventiveness and achievement, Dr. Kleitman left Jerome A. Barrett a vast impression on the sleep medicine field. RECIPIENT Mr. Barrett is a graduate of the make a positive difference in the Jerome A. Barrett is an association Institute for Organizational Management careers of those we serve. I like to executive with more than 35 years at the University of Notre Dame and think that sleep medicine and sleep of experience and 25 years as Chief holds a degree in economics from Lewis research have been elevated several Executive Officer. Mr. Barrett has University. He has served as a director levels over the past two decades, and served as the executive director of the on the board of directors for a number I am pleased to have contributed to American Academy of Sleep Medicine of corporate and civic groups, and as a this growth and success. since 1996. He also serves as the corporate business consultant for several None of what I have achieved would executive director of the Sleep Research other organizations. He is a member of have been possible without the support Society and American Academy of numerous professional organizations, of those who have served on the board Dental Sleep Medicine. including the American Association of Medical Society Executives, American of directors, including the current board. Prior to entering the association Society of Association Executives, I also have had the pleasure of working management field, Mr. Barrett spent Association Forum of Chicagoland and with the most dedicated, hardworking 10 years in the U.S. Army as an Military Officers Association of America. professional staff any chief executive Infantry Officer. He was the recipient could ever hope for. I sincerely thank all REMARKS of numerous honors and awards. of you. The most important and influential I am deeply honored to receive this person in my career has been the love His primary areas of expertise award. I was hired by the board of of my life, my partner in everything I do, include market development, directors in April 1996, and it truly has my wife Jennifer. Her love, devotion, strategic and tactical planning, been my distinct pleasure and privilege support and encouragement drive me leadership development, government to serve the members of the AASM to be the best I can be. I cannot thank relations, health care finance, real these past 20 years. Along the way her enough. estate management, budgeting and I hoped that my contributions would administration. advance the cause of the AASM and AASM AWARDS | 2016 2016 William C. Dement Academic Achievement Award AWARD DESCRIPTION Established in 1994, the William C. Dement Academic Achievement Award recognizes members of the sleep field who have displayed exceptional initiative and progress in the areas of sleep education and academic research. The award’s namesake, William C. Dement, MD, PhD, is one of the nation’s leading sleep researchers. His extensive publication of research, studies of REM sleep and development of the Multiple Sleep Latency Test greatly advanced the sleep Carol A. Landis, medicine field. The William C. Dement Academic Achievement Award embodies the pursuit of knowledge, a commitment PhD, RN, FAAN to teaching and an unceasing quest to disseminate truth. RECIPIENT a nurse in intensive care, wondering who have provided support for our Carol A. Landis, PhD, RN, FAAN is about the impact of sleep loss on sleep research laboratory. This support a professor in biobehavioral nursing recovery from critical illness. While has been enormously important in and health systems in the School of in graduate school I accepted an attracting postdoctoral fellows to the Nursing at the University of Washington opportunity provided by a pain University of Washington, where they in Seattle, where she also has served scientist, Jon Levine, with whom I are continuing the legacy of sleep as director of the Sleep Research studied sleep in an animal model of research in nursing begun by the late Laboratory. After receiving a doctoral chronic pain. Betty Giblin in the 1970s. I also thank degree in nursing science at the my colleagues in nursing, medicine, I am deeply indebted to Allan University of California, San Francisco, pediatrics, pharmacy, rehabilitation Rechtschaffen and Bernie Bergmann she completed post-doctoral training at medicine, and engineering at the UW for teaching me how to record sleep the University of Chicago funded by the for ensuring the success of our funded in animals, and to the interdisciplinary multi-site research training program at research. multi-site training program, which the University of California, Los Angeles. enabled me to receive in-depth Finally, I acknowledge my late Her research interests include the health training from leading scientists in the parents, who provided an environment consequences of sleep deprivation, basic science of sleep and circadian for a child to flourish and believe pain-related sleep disturbance in rhythms. I thank my UW colleagues, she could do most anything she put arthritis and fibromyalgia, and sleep in particular, Marty Lentz and Jim her mind to, and my partner, JoAnn problems unique to women. Rothermel for teaching me to record Vassallo, who continues to put up with REMARKS sleep in humans; Joan Shaver and all the time I spend working! Michael Vitiello for teaching me grant I am deeply honored to receive this writing; and Margaret Heitkemper and award. My interest in sleep grew out the deans of the School of Nursing, of my clinical experience working as AASM AWARDS | 2016 2016 Mark O. Hatfield Public Policy or Advocacy Award AWARD DESCRIPTION Established in 1996, the Mark O. Hatfield Public Policy or Advocacy Award acknowledges an individual who has developed public policy that positively affects the healthy sleep of all Americans. This contribution is unique yet vital to the advancement of the field. U.S. Senator Mark O. Hatfield (R-Ore.) continually supported sleep medicine initiatives and policy until his death at the age of 89 years in 2011. His work on behalf of the field was instrumental at increasing NIH funding for sleep, raising public awareness of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), establishing the National Center on Sleep Disorders Research, and supporting the nationally Janet B. recognized sleep disorders research at the Oregon Health & Science University. Sen. Hatfield also chaired the Transportation Appropriations Croft, PhD Subcommittee, introducing the driver fatigue initiative, which passed in 1995. RECIPIENT Dr. Croft’s career over the past epidemiologist assignee program, and Janet B. Croft, PhD, joined the Centers 25 years at CDC has focused on ongoing efforts related to improving for Disease Control and Prevention identifying gaps in the epidemiologic the surveillance of sleep health, (CDC) in August 1991. She is currently assessment of heart failure, stroke, interstitial cystitis, inflammatory bowel chief of the Epidemiology and mental health, sleep, and chronic disease, and chronic obstructive Surveillance Branch within the Division obstructive pulmonary disease, and pulmonary disease. Her work is of Population Health in the National then developing new surveillance reflected in more than 300 publications Center for Chronic Disease Prevention systems or improving existing systems and CDC reports. She is a recipient of and Health Promotion at CDC. to fill those gaps. She is also committed CDC’s Charles C. Shepard Award in to improving the epidemiologic Assessment and Epidemiology. Dr. Croft holds a bachelor’s degree and surveillance capacity of state REMARKS in anthropology from the University health departments. In her first of Southern Mississippi, a master’s management role as a cardiovascular I am so appreciative of this honor, which of public health in maternal and disease epidemiologist at CDC, she I share with many CDC colleagues child health from Tulane University, was responsible for initiating and who have helped to ensure that and a doctor of philosophy degree developing the State Cardiovascular sleep duration data will be collected in epidemiology from the University Health Program, the Paul Coverdell routinely among adult and adolescent of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her National Acute Stroke Registry, and populations in every state, that new first epidemiologic work experience the State Cardiovascular Health information about school start times included coordinating and conducting Examination Survey. and the decision-makers who determine the Bogalusa Heart Study, a major start time policies is being collected and cross-sectional and longitudinal In her current role since 2007, reported, and that public and media community study of pediatric cohorts Dr. Croft provides leadership and awareness of sleep-related issues has from birth through young adulthood, oversight to CDC’s excessive alcohol grown so much over the past decade. at Louisiana State University