Gold Standard Panel (GSP) Faculty & Planner Disclosures
Statement of Need
The need for this activity has been determined based on identifying professional practice gaps, as well as review of previous course evaluations and member surveys. The educational content was developed based on current issues and topic trends provided by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) leadership and membership.
Disclosure Statement
As an education provider accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the American Academy of Sleep Medicine must ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in all its sponsored educational activities.
AASM must collect information from all planners, faculty, and others in control of educational content about all their financial relationships with ineligible companies within the prior 24 months. There is no minimum financial threshold; individuals must disclose all financial relationships, regardless of the amount, with ineligible companies. Individuals must disclose regardless of their view of the relevance of the relationship to the education.
AASM is responsible for identifying relevant financial relationships between individuals in control of educational content and ineligible companies and managing these to ensure they do not introduce commercial bias into the education. Financial relationships of any dollar amount are defined as relevant if the educational content is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company. It is the AASM’s responsibility to determine which relationships are relevant.
Companies that are ineligible to be accredited in the ACCME System (ineligible companies) are those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
Resolution of Conflicts of Interest
AASM has implemented mechanisms to identify and mitigate conflicts of interest for all individuals in a position to control content, prior to the planning and implementation of this CME activity. All Conflict of Interest Disclosures are provided to participants prior to start of the activity.
Adult Gold Standard Panel
The following activity planners have no relevant financial relationships with any ineligible companies to disclose:
Michael J. Zachek, MD (Co-Chair), Scott G. Williams, MD (Co-Chair), Alyssa Ebersole (AASM staff), Kathleen Fitzgerald (AASM staff), John Bivol (AASM staff), and Matthew Anastasi (AASM staff).
The following panelists have no relevant financial relationships with any ineligible companies to disclose:
Faye Burnette, RRT, RPSGT, Claude Albertario, RST, RPSGT, and Christopher R. Hope, MD.
Pediatric Gold Standard Panel
The following activity planners have no relevant financial relationships with any ineligible companies to disclose:
Anuja Bandyopadhyay, MD (Co-Chair), Brian D. Robertson, MD, FAAP (Co-Chair), Alyssa Ebersole (AASM staff), Kathleen Fitzgerald (AASM staff), John Bivol (AASM staff), and Matthew Anastasi (AASM staff).
The following panelists have no relevant financial relationships with any ineligible companies to disclose:
Ameet S. Daftary, MD, MS, FAASM, Claude Albertario, RST, RPSGT and Matthew J. Balog, MPH, CCSH, RPSGT.