Mandate:
To develop short-term guidance and long-term strategies for AASM members on obesity management.
Goals:
- Discover best practices from sleep medicine clinicians on incorporating obesity management into their existing practices.
- Develop resources (e.g., white papers, webinars) that provide practical implementation guidance for AASM members on obesity management and/or obesity medications (e.g., GLP-1).
- Propose to the AASM Board of Directors a long-term strategy for the sleep medicine field on managing obesity and/or partnering with obesity medicine specialists.
Please review the American Academy of Sleep Medicine Policy on Conflicts of Interest. Applicants will be required to submit their disclosures as part of the application process.
Committee, task force and panel members are required to disclose any relevant conflicts when appointed in order to determine the appropriate management of conflicts. Any new conflicts that arise during a member’s term must also be disclosed at that time.