5 Ways to Celebrate STAW 2024
Commemorate your team’s hard work and accomplishments from the past year by joining AAST in celebrating Sleep Technologist Appreciation Week (STAW)! Taking place Oct. 20-26, check out a few ways […]
Announcing the 2023 AAST Award Winners
AAST recognizes individual members for their professional excellence, service and commitment to the association and to the sleep technology profession in the following areas of commitment; leadership to the growth […]
Announcing the 2023 AAST Class of Fellows
The AAST Fellow Program is a means of recognizing those who have made significant and sustained contributions to the field of sleep technology. Fellowship recipients must be credentialed in sleep […]
QA with Dr. Frank Scheer – AAST’s 2019 Annual Meeting Keynote Speaker
Dr. Frank Scheer is a professor at Harvard Medical School and the director of the Medical Chronobiology Program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is also the keynote speaker for […]
Children’s Sleep Schedules Matter – In and Outside of the Lab
For a child, a sleep schedule is everything.
Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Stroke
This blog is based off of the AAST 2019 Annual Meeting Session “Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Stroke: Evidence, Mechanisms, and Treatment Strategies.” For more information on this session and other […]
Sports Sleep: An Interview with Pat Byrne
Professional athletes put their bodies through a lot. High-intensity competition, grueling travel schedules, late games – all of this makes good sleep hygiene crucial. A well-rested and recovered athlete plays […]
Sleep Centers Using Lean Concepts
Lean manufacturing originated in Japan, where Toyota developed the Toyota Production System as a way to organize its manufacturing and logistics. Since then, many other organizations have adopted the Toyota […]
Changing the Way We Think About Insomnia – One YouTube Video at a Time
Daniel Erichsen, MD, saw it time and time again. Patients would come into his sleep clinic in Oregon complaining of insomnia, and he would tell them the same thing: If […]
Are You Ordering Your Credentials Correctly?
Credentials are a great thing to have. Not only do they signal to others what kind of specializations you have, they also display how hard you’ve worked in your career. […]