American Academy of Sleep Medicine

American Academy of Sleep Medicine

Abbreviation	AASM
Formation	1975
Type	Professional Association
Headquarters	Darien, IL
Location	United States
Membership	10,000
Official language	English
President	Kelly A. Carden, MD, MBA
Website	aasm.org
Formerly called	American Sleep Disorders Association

The American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) is a United States professional society for the medical subspecialty of sleep medicine which includes disorders of circadian rhythms. It was established in 1975.

The organization's functions include the accreditation of sleep medicine facilities in the United States. According to the AASM, the organization issued its first accreditation to a sleep disorders center in 1977 (April 27, Sleep-Wake Disorders Center, Montefiore Medical Center, New York), and by 2019 had accredited more than 2,600 sleep facilities across the U.S, Canada, and U.S. territories.

Vision and mission

The organization's vision is achieving optimal health through better sleep. Its stated mission is to improve sleep health and promote high quality, patient-centered care through advocacy, education, strategic research, and practice standards.

Membership

Membership is open to U.S. and international physicians, researchers, advanced practice providers, dentists, psychologists, respiratory therapists, sleep technologists and other health care professionals who are involved in the study, diagnosis and treatment of disorders of sleep and daytime alertness.

Publications

The latest findings in sleep medicine are published in the official peer-reviewed journal of the AASM:

• The Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine (JCSM) is the official publication of the AASM, primarily for medical professionals. Published monthly, JCSM includes original clinical research, clinical reviews, case studies and opinion pieces from prominent sleep researchers on circadian rhythms and sleep science.

The AASM also publishes clinical practice guidelines, position papers, position statements, and consensus statements and papers to provide recommendations to clinicians for the evaluation, diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of sleep and circadian rhythm sleep-wake disorders. The clinical practice guidelines are developed by a task force of experts who perform a systematic review of all published evidence on the topic. The evidence is then assessed using The Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) approach.

Patient and public information about sleep and sleep disorders is available from the AASM on the Sleep Education website.

Annual Meeting

The SLEEP annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies LLC (APSS) is a joint venture of the AASM and the Sleep Research Society. The SLEEP meeting provides evidence-based education to advance the science and clinical practice of sleep medicine, disseminates cutting-edge sleep and circadian research, promotes the translation of basic science into clinical practice, and fosters the future of the field by providing career development opportunities at all levels. The meeting attracts about 5,000 attendees each year. Research abstracts from each SLEEP meeting are published annually in a supplement of the journal Sleep, the peer-reviewed publication of the SRS. SLEEP 2020, the 34th annual meeting of the APSS, will be held June 13-17 in Philadelphia.