Grant Recipients
Each year the ResMed Foundation provides grants for Clinical Research, Physician and Public Awareness of the hazards of sleep-disordered breathing. In addition, the Foundation funds a limited number of Community organizations. Below is a representative sampling of a few of the grants that have been awarded:
CLINICAL RESEARCH
San Pedro Alcantara Hospital
Evaluation of Continuous Positive Airway Pressure on kidney function in patients with early stage renal disease and Sleep Apnea Syndrome.
University of Bern
Cerebral and muscular hemodynamics in chronic heart failure (CHF) and sleep disordered breathing (SDB): the role of intrathoracic pressure and cardiac output.
Case Western Reserve University
Assessment of Anatomic Airway Changes in OSA Patients Post Bariatric Surgery
Cleveland Clinic
Portable Monitoring in the Diagnosis and Management of Sleep-Disordered Breathing in Acute Stroke Patients
Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Randomised, double-blinded, sham-controlled cross-over trial of continuous Transcutaneous Electrical stimulation of the pharyngeal dilator muscles in Obstructive Sleep Apnea (TESLA Trial).
Monash University
Effect of Continuous Positive Airway Pressure on Quality of Life in Children with Obstructive Sleep Apnoea
PHYSICIAN AND PHYSICIAN AWARENESS
Connecticut Children's Hospital
OSA 18 in Children with Mild Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Can it be a Helpful Decision Making Tool?
National Stroke Association
Obstructive Sleep Apnea & Stroke: A Patient Education Initiative.
The National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease
Sleep Apnea and Women: What you need to know.
USA Science and Engineering Festival
An educational science festival held on The Mall in Washington, DC that attracted over 200,000 people.
COMMUNITY PHILANTHROPY
K-12 Educational Programs primarily supporting disadvantaged youth at the following organizations:
- Access Youth Academy
- Arts District Liberty Station
- Athenaeum
- Big Brothers Big Sisters
- Boy Scouts
- Boys and Girls Club of Vista
- Classics 4 Kids
- Computers 2 Kids
- Elementary Institute of Science
- Generation Steam
- Girl Scouts of San Diego
- Girls Inc.
- La Jolla Music Society
- La Jolla Playhouse
- Mingei International Museum
- Monarch School
- Museum of Contemporary Art
- New Children's Museum
- Ocean Discovery Institute
- Oceanside Museum of Art
- Oceanside Theatre Company
- Old Globe
- Reality Changers
- Reuben H Fleet Science Center
- San Diego Ballet
- San Diego Children's Discovery Museum
- San Diego Museum of Art
- San Diego Natural History Museum
- San Diego Opera
- San Diego Symphony
- San Diego Youth Symphony
- San Diego Zoo