AARC Election 2025 — Peter Allen

AARC Activities:

• Former Interim Sleep Section Chair
• Have spoken 6 times at AARC World Congress-Anaheim, 1, Tampa 4, Nashville 2023, 1

Related Organizations:

• NBRC
• SASM
• AAST
• WSS
• AASM Member to Organizations

Education:

• BSRC
• RRT NPS
• SDS
• RPSGT
• FAAST

Elections Committee Questions:

What do you see as the biggest challenge facing the AARC, and what do you recommend to address it?

Recruiting new applicants for respiratory therapy programs, across the US to support the urgent need for RTs across the US and to move the profession forward.

Recommendation:
Develop a national network of AARC members to visit/exhibit/lecture at career fairs and high schools across the country and promote entry to the profession.

Healthcare is changing more rapidly than ever. What ideas do you have to help today’s respiratory therapist meet these changes?

Number one is to acquire as many academic and clinical credentials as possible. These credentials and education will support your efforts throughout your career. Attending society conferences and as possible to embrace technology change as it occurs. Be the first to gain education on new concepts and technology.

Sleep disorders field is a great example of technology change that occurs every day. RT Department Directors, who control most hospital sleep labs in the US, are well aware.

If given the opportunity to represent your section, what would you do to increase section membership and promote engagement?

As a former Sleep Section Chair, I would continue to communicate, Best Clinical and Operational Practices, on a regular basis to all members of the section via AARC channels as well as directly.

New technology and business model concepts would be communicated to support members efforts in the sleep disorders field. Keeping in touch and involving former Sleep Section Chairs for their invaluable input would be one of my first actions.

Increasing interest in the Sleep Section would be accomplished through direct contact to section members that brings clinical and financial value to their sleep disorders centers. Working with each state respiratory society to promote speakers at their conferences and also raise our profile, their exhibit halls. Working as a consultant now, means that my schedule is my own, giving me more time to fulfill the challenge of increased membership in the AARC Sleep Section. Thank you for your consideration, Peter Allen, BSRC, RRT, RRT-NPS, RRT-SDS, RPSGT, FAAST.