Company Overview

We are the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM), an innovative professional medical association located in Darien, IL, a southwest suburb of Chicago. Established in 1975, the AASM is a professional, forward-thinking membership organization dedicated to the advancement of sleep medicine and related research. Our mission is to assure quality care for patients with sleep disorders, promote the advancement of sleep research, and provide public and professional education. We represent a combined membership of 12,000 accredited member sleep centers and individual members, including physicians, scientists, and other healthcare professionals.

In pursuit of improving sleep health and promoting high-quality patient-centered care for all people, the AASM is dedicated to fostering a culture that is committed to excellence, inclusive, flexible, collaborative, appreciative, supportive, and innovative. We strive to live out these core values each day and are looking for others who would like to do the same.

While office presence is not required for this hybrid position, we strongly encourage our employees to work in the office two days a week, with Wednesday as an anchor day to strengthen our collaborative and supportive culture. Managers (with direct reports) will be required to work in the office on the anchor day. There will be instances in the future for everyone to report to the office for certain staff meetings/functions. As a result, only local candidates will be considered for this position.

Job Summary

We have an immediate need for an experienced scientific or health-related researcher who will partner with task forces to manage the development of new and updated systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines, position papers, and consensus documents. We’re looking for a methodical thinker who can provide our volunteer task force members with the information they need to write evidence-based guidelines on behalf of the AASM by conducting literature searches, evidence extraction, and meta-analysis. The ideal candidate will also have experience as either an author or a contributor to other guidelines or technical or scientific papers. As a staff liaison, this individual will keep the volunteers focused on their deliverables and provide pre/post conference call support.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Work with task forces to develop new or update existing systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines and submit to the Board of Directors (BOD) for revision and approval.
• Coordinate and assist in leading conference calls and face-to-face meetings; establish agendas and prepare materials, generate meeting minutes, and document progress according to specified timelines.
• Collaborate with the task force to develop project charters that outline the scope of new projects, PICO questions, timelines, appropriate literature search strategies, and inclusion/exclusion criteria for the projects.
• Serve as the methodologist for guideline development and educate the task force on the methodology used to develop systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines (literature evidence review, data extraction, meta-analysis, evidence synthesis), and how to use the GRADE system to assess the evidence and develop clinical practice recommendation statements.
• Conduct statistical and meta-analyses to inform the systematic review and clinical practice guideline; create evidence tables and draft narrative summary of statistical analyses.
• Assist in writing, editing, and reviewing systematic reviews, clinical practice guidelines, and position paper manuscripts.
• Assist the department manager with developing summary reports for the BOD.
• Assist the department manager with a review of clinical practice guidelines in need of updating to determine the strategy for revisions.
• Some travel is required with this position, which may include weekends.