First Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Leadership Award presented at SLEEP

Charlene Gamaldo, MD, medical director of the Johns Hopkins Sleep Disorders Center and professor of neurology at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, received the inaugural Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Leadership Award at SLEEP 2021.

Charlene Gamaldo

Gamaldo received the award from the Associated Professional Sleep Societies, LLC, a joint venture between the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and the Sleep Research Society, according to a press release. The award recognizes an individual who has made significant contributions to sleep medicine or sleep and circadian science through efforts to increase diversity, equity and inclusion among sleep medicine providers or the development of educational programs, research or clinical work meant to decrease disparities.

Gamaldo’s research focuses on the effect of sleep on the manifestation and progression of neurological diseases. Specifically, Gamaldo examines the relationship between sleep and disease progression in HIV, according to her academic biography.

“The APSS is committed to fostering a more diverse, equitable and inclusive sleep field, and we are grateful for the leadership of Dr. Gamaldo to support these efforts at Johns Hopkins and in her professional networks,” Andrew Krystal, MD, Associated Professional Sleep Societies president and professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, Weill Institute for Neurosciences, said in the press release. “Her efforts to diversify the sleep field and close the gap of health disparities will have a lasting and positive impact.”

Reference:

SLEEP 2021. Sleep societies announce inaugural Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Leadership Award recipient. Available at: https://www.sleepmeeting.org/sleep-societies-announce-inaugural-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-leadership-award-recipient/. Accessed June 14, 2021.