Österreichische Gesellschaft für Schlafmedizin /
Austrian Sleep Research Association (ÖGSM / ASRA)
President
Dr. Rainer Popovic
Email: office@medis.at
Presentation held during the ANSS meeting in: Brussels, Belgium, 28. – 30.04.2016 (PDF)
Foundation year
1991
Webpage
Number of members
200 members (Dec. 2011)
Composition of members (degree, specialties, subspecialties, etc.)
physicians: 164 ( neurology, psychiatry, pulmonology, internal medicine, ENT, pediatrics, dentistry); researchers: 7; nurses: 7; technicians: 17; others: 5
Historical perspective of the society
The ASRA was founded following an international meeting in Nice / France in October 1991. The first national meeting took place in 1992 with invited speakers from Germany ( J. H. Peter, T. Podszus). Since then annual meetings have taken place across the country. The highlight was to host the ESRS meeting 2006 in Innsbruck.
Since the foundation there have been 7 presidents (named in chronological order):
Zeitlhofer J., 1991 – 1995
Bolitschek J., 1996 – 1998
Saletu B., 1998 – 2002
Popovic R., 2002 – 2006
Högl B., 2006 – 2010
Kerbl R., 2010 – 2012
Mallin W., 2012 – 2016
Högl B., 2016 –
Important sleep physicians / researchers in the history of the NSS
(in alphabetical order) Univ. Prof. Dr. Birgit HÖGL (Innsbruck), Univ. Prof. Dr. Bernd SALETU (Vienna), Univ. Prof. DDr. Josef ZEITLHOFER (Vienna)
Number of Sleep Medicine Centers
Currently there are 31 ASRA-certifi ed sleep labs in Austria
www.schlafmedizin-asra.at/schlaflabore.html
Number of Sleep Research Centers
3 (one at the Medical University of Innsbruck and two at the Medical University of Vienna)
Accreditation / Certification procedure
According to the guidelines of the ESRS and the DGSM with slight national modifications
Educational programs
Education for sleep technicians, nurses and doctors during the annual scientific meetings
Present activities, working groups, task forces
Working group of the ASRA for specialisation in sleep medicine since 2008.
Activity of members of the ASRA in international societies and working groups of the ESRS / ANSS,
WASM, ERS (HERMES Sleep), IRLSSG, IRBDSG, COST B 26 and others.