Position statements
Policy
The AAN has developed position statements on a variety of issues to help guide your decision-making, and the AAN is committed to creating position statements specific to neurology.
Public policy and practice
- (2026)
- Statement on sudden departure of NINDS Director (2025)
- AAN response to CDC website changes on vaccines & autism (2025)
- Securing Necessary Neurological Care for Military Personnel and Veterans with Brain and Nervous System Injury (Updated 2025)
- (2025)
- (Updated 2025)
- (2025)
- (2024)
- (Updated 2024)
- AAN Principles for Health Care Delivery (Updated 2024)
- Diagnostic Electromyography is the Practice of Medicine (Reaffirmed 2024)
- (2024)
- (2023)
- AAN Position Statement on COVID-19 Vaccination (2021)
- (2021)
- Position Statement on Systemic Racism and Inequities in Society (2020)
- Medical Cannabis (2020)
- Sports Concussion: Policy Implications (2020)
- Stroke Care (2020)
- Neurology Advanced Practice Providers (2020)
- On-Call Reimbursement for Neurologists (2019)
- Availability of Disease Modifying Therapies (DMT) for Treatment of Relapsing Forms of Multiple Sclerosis (2015)
- (2014)
Ethics
- (2026)
- (2025)
- (2025)
- AAN Response to Wartenberg Letters Regarding the 1953 Hallervorden Affair (2024)
- (2022)
- (2022)
- (2021)
- (2021)
- (2021)
- (2021)
- (2020)
- (2020)
- The Use of Neck Restraints in Law Enforcement (2020)
- (Reaffirmed 2019)
- (2018)
- (2018)
- (2014)
- (2013)
Endorsed by the AAN
- (2025)
- (2023)
- Coalition Statement in Support of Research Using Human Fetal Tissue (2021)
- Policy Recommendations for Addressing Racism and Discrimination in Law Enforcement (2021)
- (2021)
- (2021)
- (2020)
- (2019)
- (2017)
- (2017)
Interested in proposing a new position statement? Contact advocacy@aan.com for more information.