FLASS, A new awakening: For the dissemination of clinical and basic sleep science in Latin America

In this first edition of 2015, the Sleep Science journal, diffusion instrument of the Latin American Federation of the Sleep Societies (FLASS), shows chapters of the working program for the years 2014–2016, in which one expects the active participation of all brotherly societies on the clinical and basic investigation of sleep in Latin America. The practice of sleep medicine is happening in our entire continent and within all the disciplines that integrate the emergent and consolidated sleep science, in some countries more than others, and our mission as a Federation, is of following this growth per Associations, as well as per individual members. For this following up, we propose a program entitled A NEW AWAKENING [1] ,with the engagement to respond to all the questions and doubts that were debated during the last Assembly in December 2014, where we analyzed and raised the attention to the reality of the Latin American Federation of the Sleep Societies. Such analysis, were focused on the pressing need of integration, institutionalization and corporative structuring of FLASS, of member appropriation and of constructing with solid basis, the integration and accompanying of the development of the sleep science in the continent.