AASM Unveils 2023 Award Recipients adminJuly 28, 2023 Karin Johnson and Jay Pea Karin Johnson, MD, and Jay Pea Recipients of the Mark O. Hatfield Public Policy or Advocacy Award for developing public policy that positively affects the healthy sleep of all Americans. Johnson is a professor in both the department of neurology and the department of healthcare delivery and population science at UMass Chan School of Medicine-Baystate in Springfield, Massachusetts, where she is also the vice chair of academic affairs in the department of neurology. She is also the vice president of Save Standard Time, a nonprofit, nonpartisan, donor-funded, volunteer-run effort to preserve and extend the observation of longitudinally correct standard time. Pea is a software engineer and graphic designer turned nonprofit administrator working in support of permanent standard time as the founder and president of Save Standard Time. He comes to this advocacy as an amateur astronomer and great-grandson of farmers who learned from an early age to tell time by the position of the sun, moon, and stars. Originally from rural Iowa, he now lives in greater Phoenix. Photo 24143677 / Award © Karenr | Dreamstime.com
