Summary

This document is the Bylaws of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (updated January 2025), governing the corporate structure of the AASM as a Minnesota nonprofit. It is an organizational/governance document — not a clinical practice guideline — and contains no clinical recommendations, drug dosing, or diagnostic thresholds for sleep disorders. Content covers membership categories, Board of Directors composition and elections, Officer roles, and committee structure.

Key Recommendations

This source is an organizational bylaws document, not a clinical practice guideline — it contains no patient-care recommendations.
Full AASM membership requires an MD, DO, PhD, DDS, DNP, or other healthcare doctoral degree with active involvement in sleep medicine.
Members are automatically expelled after two months of dues delinquency.
The Board of Directors comprises the President, President-Elect, Secretary/Treasurer, Immediate Past President, and eight Directors.
Directors serve three-year terms, eligible for one additional consecutive term.
President, President-Elect, and Immediate Past President each serve one-year terms; Secretary/Treasurer serves a three-year term.
A majority of Directors constitutes a quorum; proxy voting is not permitted.
Bylaw amendments require 60 days advance notice to membership plus a two-thirds vote of the Board of Directors.

Thresholds & Doses

2 months dues delinquency — triggers automatic expulsion from membership
8 elected Directors — Board composition beyond the four Officers
3-year term — standard Director and Secretary/Treasurer term length
1-year term — President, President-Elect, and Immediate Past President
30 days — minimum interval ballots distributed before Annual Membership Meeting
20% write-in vote threshold — triggers a run-off election
60 days advance notice + 2/3 Board vote — required to amend Bylaws
3 at-large members on Leadership Development Committee, staggered 3-year terms, not eligible for re-election

Citations

Article II, Section 3 — Full Membership eligibility criteria
Article II, Section 8 — Expulsion for dues delinquency
Article III, Sections 2–3 — Board composition and term lengths
Article III, Section 5 — Election process and write-in candidate rules
Article III, Section 6 — Quorum and proxy voting rules
Article IV, Sections 1–3 — Officer roles, succession, and terms
Article V, Section 1 — Executive Committee composition and authority
Article V, Section 9 — Bylaw amendment procedure