Call for New Members of the Paediatric Sleep Medicine Subcommittee

The main task of the Paediatric Subcommittee is to promote the field of paediatric sleep. As a new addition to the ESRS in 2022, the current goal is to improve connectivity by establishing a registry of European clinicians and researchers or centres involved in paediatric sleep. The complete mission encompasses the 5 main pillars listed here.

1.) To strive for high-quality sleep health care to children and adolescents and their families:

• By supporting and facilitating the training of professionals, clinicians, and researchers in paediatric sleep;
• By collaborating in development of paediatric sleep guidelines respecting our rich cultural and linguistic diversity;
• By protecting and improving the quality of practice parameters in paediatric sleep medicine;
• By standardising procedures for children and adolescents in accredited sleep centres.

2.) To achieve sustainable development goals for the field of pediatric sleep:

• This network will support basic and applied research in all areas of pediatric sleep health care.
• This network will support the identification, creation and modification of pediatric sleep tools (e.g., questionnaires, scoring algorithms, technology, etc.).
• This network will encourage the development of effective sleep health care for sleep issues applicable across childhood ages and developmental stages.
• This network will advocate and contribute to the digitalisation of patient or participant databases, shared digital knowledge.

3.) To enhance scientific and technological progress in the field of sleep medicine.

4.) To offer a European platform to disseminate paediatric sleep knowledge to societal policies and the public.

5.) To advocate the pediatric sleep endeavours by other (inter)national paediatric sleep organisations.