Project Workgroups

The four project workgroups are composed of volunteers from the project’s partnering organizations. Since the project’s start in 2021, these volunteers have contributed their time, work, and expertise to ensure the project provided the needed information and resources to increase awareness of obstructive sleep apnea.

The AASM thanks these volunteers for their continued work on this important project.

Provider Education Workgroup

The provider education workgroup determines and creates appropriate provider education materials aimed toward educating primary care and other non-sleep providers on screening, diagnosis, treatment, management, and referral of obstructive sleep apnea.

Members:
Alcibiades Rodriguez, MD, Chair
Alexandre Abreu, MD
Earl C. Crew, PhD
Sarah Gorman, JD
Chiarina Iregui, DDS
Ofer Jacobowitz, MD
Rubina Nguyen, DDS
Milena Pavlova, MD, FAASM
Lara Wittine, MD
Sarah Hashmi, MBBS, MSc, MPH (Staff Liaison)
Melissa Clark (Staff Liaison)

Public Awareness and Communications Workgroup

The public awareness and communications workgroup determines and implements appropriate public messaging to increase awareness of the sleep disorder and encourage seeking diagnosis and treatment of undiagnosed sleep apnea.

Members:
Lourdes Del Rosso, MD, Chair
Kelly Baron, PhD, MPH
Martha E. Billings, MD, MSc
Laura DeFelice
James Denneny, MD
Sarah Honaker, PhD
Terri Horton-O’Connell
Jason W. Kempenich, MD, FACS
John Lopos
Sameh Morkous, MD
Rebecca Robbins, MMSci, PhD, MS
Scott Williams, MD
Melissa Clark (Staff Liaison)
Sarah Hashmi, MBBS, MSc, MPH (Staff Liaison)

Strategic Planning Workgroup

The strategic planning workgroup provides strategic oversight to the project as a whole and ensures that the workgroups are working toward appropriate outcomes and deliverables for the project.

Members:
Jennifer Martin, PhD, Chair
James Rowley MD
Steve Van Hout
Craig Heller, PhD
Namni Goel, PhD
John Noel
Raman Malhotra, MD (Past Chair)
Melissa Clark (Staff Liaison)

Tool Development and Surveillance Workgroup

The tool development and surveillance workgroup creates public health materials, including the National Indicator Report, and identifies and proposes survey solutions to address obstructive sleep apnea data gaps.

Members:
Indira Gurubhagavatula, MD, MPH, Chair
Aneesa Das, MD
Monica Mallampalli, PhD
Diego Mazzotti, PhD
Freda Patterson, PhD
John Park, MD
Cristina Baldassari, MD
Michael Edwards, MD
Imran Patel, DMD
Uzma Kazmi (Staff Liaison)
Kelly Keeler (Staff Liaison)