Guidelines Advisory Panel (GAP) Member

GAP Member Applicant - Complete Volunteer Profile

Review the American Academy of Sleep Medicine Policy on Conflicts of Interest.

Service as a GAP member is a one-year appointment with the potential for ongoing reappointment, and requires participation on monthly conference calls and collaborative involvement on projects that meet the GAP mandate and goals. The GAP currently meets the second Thursday of every month from 4:30-6:00pm ET.

Applicants must have prior experience with the guideline development process, and specifically using the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) methodology.

Mandate: The Guidelines Advisory Panel (GAP) oversees the clinical practice guideline (CPG) and Clinical Guidance Statement (CGS) development processes, ensures there is consistency across AASM documents, approves key steps in the development of these documents, and makes recommendations to the AASM Board of Directors about approval to post these documents for public comment period and to publish.

Goals for 2021/2022:

1. Serve as liaisons to all of the CPG and CGS task forces in order to facilitate communication between the task forces and the GAP and ensure consistency across projects.
2. Work with staff in identifying potential Chairs and task force members for all CPG and CGS projects.
3. Approve the final project charter for all CPGs, ensuring that the PICO questions adhere to the format and scope outlined in the AASM Practice Guideline Development Handbook and that any revisions or clarifications requested by the Board or Executive Committee (EC) are made.
4. Approve CPG Progress Report #1, ensuring that the project is progressing according to the project charter, and that the evidence identified by the task force is sufficient to warrant continued development of the CPG.
5. Review and provide feedback (if any) on the documents before they are submitted to the Board or EC for approval. Approve any subsequent edits to the CPG, systematic review, and CGS documents requested by the Board or EC.
6. Provide recommendations to the Board of Directors for criteria that should be used when reviewing endorsement requests from external organizations.
7. Review and make recommendations to the Board/EC for requests submitted to the AASM for endorsement of or collaboration on practice standards documents.

Conflict of Interest

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.