About the World Association of Sleep Medicine (WASM)

The World Association of Sleep Medicine (WASM) is an international organisation comprised of healthcare professionals primarily active in the field of sleep medicine. Its goal is to advance knowledge about sleep and sleep disorders among health care personnel and among the public worldwide and the Association was founded to improve sleep health worldwide and to encourage prevention and treatment of sleep disorders.

The WASM are working toward increasing worldwide awareness of the importance of sleep and the adverse consequences resulting from lack of sleep, due either to enforced lifestyle or to sleep disorders themselves. The Association aims to act as a link between various sleep associations and cultures, i.e. as an international nexus among sleep clinicians and researchers in the advancement of worldwide sleep health. A special goal of the Association is to foster dissemination of expertise in sleep medicine everywhere in the world.

For more information please visit www.wasmonline.org.