Scoring Education for Sleep Center Staff

American Academy of Sleep Medicine Inter-scorer Reliability is the leading program for continuing education on scoring sleep studies. The assessment system provides immediate epoch-by-epoch feedback for every record scored. The AASM Gold Standard Scorers offer their regular expertise to help enhance your staff's scoring ability.

Record Review Videos

The monthly video review features an in-depth look at how the AASM Gold Standard Scorers scored recent record exams and provides insight into the decision-making process. A scorer walks through each of the trouble spots, identified as disagreements between the Gold Standard scorers and program users, and explains how each spot relates to rules in the AASM Manual for the Scoring of Sleep and Associated Events: Rules, Terminology and Technical Specifications. The record review video is accessible beginning two months after a scoring exam is first offered and is only available to users who have completed the exam. After every scoring review, Sleep Technologists may claim 1 FREE AAST Continuing Education Credit (CEC)! That's 12 FREE CECs per year for every scorer on your staff.

Scoring Blog

This blog is cultivated by AASM Gold Standard Scorers and features educational content that will improve the scoring ability of your staff. Content ranges from topics scoring issues to supplemental materials from recent record reviews. The blog also provides users the opportunity to interact with Gold Standard Scorers, through Q&A articles about recent record exams and general scoring issues.

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Panel of Gold Standard Reviewers

The AASM has assembled a team of sleep scorers from different backgrounds in sleep - a technologist, an educator and a physician - each with extensive experience in sleep record scoring and review. The AASM Gold Standard for scoring is based on a consensus formed by the Gold Standard Committee:

		Richard S. Rosenberg, PhD, is the Director of Professional Education and Training for the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. He also serves as coordinator for the American Association of Sleep Technologists. Dr. Rosenberg began his career in sleep in 1971 at the University of California at Berkeley, where he studied psychology as an undergraduate. He went on to receive his PhD in 1980 at the University of Chicago, where he worked in the laboratory of Dr. Allan Rechtschaffen. After completing a fellowship at the Argonne National Laboratory, Dr. Rosenberg joined the Department of Neurology at the University of Chicago. He founded and directed the Sleep Disorders Center at Evanston Hospital and taught in various capacities at Northwestern University. He joined the staff of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine in 2003.
		David Kristo, MD is the Director for Clinical Services at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Sleep Medicine Center. Dr. Kristo graduated from Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in 1988, followed by an Internal Medicine Residency and Pulmonary Fellowship at Fitzsimons Army Medical Center in Aurora, Colorado. He completed a Critical Care Fellowship at the University of Utah-LDS Hospital and served a 20 year career in the US Army with duty as Chief of Pulmonary at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and ICU Director at National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, MD. After he retired from his military career as a Colonel with five Meritorious Service Medals, he was appointed as a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh.
		Claude Albertario, RST, RPSGT, is Lead Technologist at the Weill Cornell Medical College Pediatric Sleep Center. He received his undergraduate training in Psychobiology at SUNY College at Purchase. Albertario began his career in Sleep Medicine in 1984 at Dr. Elliot Weitzman’s Institute of Chronobiology at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. In 1990, he obtained his RPSGT credential. He later received the first publically available RST credential (#100). As an early advocate of digital recording methods, Albertario spearheaded an effort at the Winthrop University Hospital to become the first accredited, paperless sleep center in the world. He helped form the New York State Society of Sleep Medicine in 1998, and presently serves as its secretary, working to shepherd the recently passed sleep tech legislation through the NYS Legislature.  His research interests revolve around his invention, z-ratio, a unified metric of sleep/wake. Albertario has sleep apnea, for which he successfully manages with CPAP.

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