Sleep and Health Benefit

2023 Sleep and Health Benefit

On October 16, 2023, the Division of Sleep Medicine will hold its 22nd Annual Sleep and Health Benefit in Boston, MA. We are also pleased to announce that Daniel Buysse, M.D., UPMC Endowed Chair in Sleep Medicine and Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, Clinical and Translational Science at University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, will be awarded the 2023 Harvard Medical School Division of Sleep Medicine Prize for his contributions to the field of Sleep Medicine.

In conjunction with the awarding of the prize, the HMS Division of Sleep Medicine is hosting a collection of events on October 16^th to celebrate and highlight the accomplishments of the Annual Prize Recipient as well as to showcase the research of trainees within the HMS Division of Sleep Medicine.

We plan to have an Annual Prize Lecture presentation at Brigham and Women’s Hospital at noon. Our events will continue at the Harvard Club of Boston with an afternoon poster session, festive reception, and an evening fine-dining experience.

 

OFFICIAL AGENDA COMING SOON

 

Last year's Sleep and Health Benefit was generously supported by the following individuals and organizations:

Underwriter

• Vanda Pharmaceuticals

Benefactor 

• Eisai

• Harmony Biosciences

• Idorsia

• Jazz Pharmaceuticals

Patron

• Sleep Number

Leader

• Apnimed
• Avadel Pharmaceuticals
• AXSOME Therapeutics, Inc.
• Bryte Foundation

Sponsors

• f.lux 
• Radhika Basheer, Ph.D
• Charles A. Czeisler, Ph.D.
• Jeanne F. Duffy, M.B.A., M.S., Ph.D.
• Christopher Landrigan, M.D., M.P.H.
• Frank Scheer, Ph.D.
• Robert J. Thomas, M.D.

Supporters

• Lawrence J. Epstein, M.D.
• Kevin S. Gipson, M.D.
• Daniel Gottlieb, M.D., M.P.H.
• Elizabeth B. Klerman, M.D.
• Paul G. Mathew, M.D.
• Stuart F. and Diana L. Quan Charitable Fund
• Clifford B. Saper, M.D., Ph.D.
• Robert E. Strecker, Ph.D.

Other Donors

• Enmanuelle Pardilla Delgado, Ph.D.
• James T. McKenna, Ph.D.
• Yuka Sasaki, Ph.D.

Support in 2022 for the Harvard Medical School Division of Sleep Medicine Sleep Matters Initiative was generously provided by the following organizations:

• Bryte Foundation
• Casey Feldman Foundation
• Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston
• Summus
• Takeda

 

Support for the 2022 - 2023  Harvard Medical School Division of Sleep Medicine Sleep Grand Rounds Program was generously provided by the following organizations:

• Takeda
• Harmony Biosciences
• Philips Respironics

 

Support in 2022 for Sleep 101 was generously provided by the following organizations:

• Abbaszadeh Foundation 
• Sharon and John Loeb
• Sleep Number
• Stanley Snider and Mary Ann Snider via Snider Family Fund at Combined Jewish Philanthropies

 

Support in 2022 for Public Health Surveillance--Sleep and Mental Health was generously provided by the following organizations:

• Alexandra Drane
• DR Capital Management
• CDC Foundation
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

 

Since 1998, support for the Harvard Medical School Training Program in Sleep, Circadian and Respiratory Neurobiology administered by the Brigham and Women’s Hospital has been provided by a training grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.