Committee Profile
Reports To: | Executive and Governance Council |
The American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM) Publishing Advisory Board (PAB) is a standing advisory committee and reports directly to the Board of Directors. The PAB Chair serves as an ex officio, non-voting member of AOSSM Board of Directors. The PAB brings together a diversity of members to share their expertise and experience in helping identify the content most needed and desired by orthopaedic sports medicine surgeons and professionals, the most appropriate channels for disseminating that content, and continuous improvement in related business practices. PAB members are charged with engaging with AOSSM’s published content and channels to develop sufficient familiarity to provide regular review and feedback to the editorial boards; report on the publishing activities of the unit they represent and review products to ensure they express AOSSM values and reflect the needs of the community they serve; advises on balancing current products and innovation to help AOSSM meet its current financial and strategic goals; and ensures consistency across AOSSM publishing and opportunities for greater standardization and minimizing duplication. The committee mediates any conflicting practices, inconsistencies, or irregularities it observes among the units its members represent. The PAB administers several awards related to AOSSM journals. The PAB may not initiate new scholarships or awards without approval from the Board of Directors. | |
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Committee Size: | Nine (9) total voting members and two (2) ex officio, non-voting members. It is important to note, as of November 2024, the current MALs are serving out their existing appointments. When each of the current MALs rolls off, a new person will be appointed under the updated terms of service.
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Roles and Responsibilities:
- Oversee the quality of all AOSSM scholarly journals and ancillary components of the journals, including oversight of each journal editorial board.
- Monitor the relationships among the AOSSM publications, specifically potential issues of overlap, competition and/or redundancy.
- Review of general editorial policy.
- Engage in strategic planning and development of the Society’s current and future publications.
- Collaborate with partner entities where appropriate.
- Recommend strategies to increase engagement and submissions.
- Serve as resource to the Professional Team and Director of Publishing on matters related to scholarly journal publication as needed.
- Offer suggestions and support the Director of Publishing as requested and needed on additional strategic business initiatives.
- Administration of all journal awards.
- Carry out and adhere to fiscal and budgetary responsibilities as determined by the AOSSM Board of Directors.
Time Commitment:
- Most of the work will be done via email and virtually via Zoom.
- Three virtual committee meetings per year: Winter, Spring and Fall.
- One in-person meeting at the AOSSM Annual Meeting.
- Additional virtual conference calls, if needed.
Qualifications:
- All appointed members must be ACTIVE, board-certified orthopaedic surgeon members of AOSSM and must have their membership kept up to date by January 1 each year. International, Emeritus, Candidate and Resident members are not eligible to serve on this committee.
- Beginning with 2025-2026 appointment cycle, at least one MAL should be under 45.
- Chairperson must meet same qualifications as MALs and must have served on this committee previously as an AOSSM Immediate Past President.
- Passion for the AOSSM journals and the drive to ensure AOSSM journals exceed industry standards.