Czeisler Receives Supplemental Grant from NIOSH

Charles Czeisler, MD, PhD, chief of the Division of Sleep Medicine, received the Director’s Award for Scientific Leadership in Occupational Safety and Health from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). This award highlights outstanding leadership and research accomplishments that have a measurable influence on maintaining the safety of the workplace.

Czeisler was selected for the award by a peer-reviewed panel of senior NIOSH scientist administrators, as well as the external occupational health and safety research community.

This was the second national award that the Harvard Work Hours, Health and Safety Group received in the past two months for their research performed at BWH on the influence of resident work hours on occupational health and patient safety. Steven Lockley, PhD, Laura Barger, PhD and Christopher Landrigan, MD, MPH, traveled with Czeisler to Washington last month to receive the Healthy Sleep Community Award from the National Sleep Foundation for this work. The NIOSH award entitles Czeisler and BWH to a grant supplement of $10,000, in addition to the initial research grant.

Czeisler will use the grant supplement to support expanded analyses of the data he and his group collected on resident work hours and the dissemination of the results.