Following are key actions taken by the Board of Regents at the Oct. 26 meeting and by the Executive Committee during its Dec. 18 teleconference.
- Approved increasing the size of the committees under the Advocacy Council to 15 members and amending the Governance Manual accordingly.
- Approved revisions to the speaker and moderator reimbursement policy.
- Approved revisions to the Conflict of Interest Leadership Issues Related to Service in ACAAI policy.
- Designated Anaheim (Nov. 9-13), with Seattle as an alternate, as the site for the 2023 Annual Meeting contingent upon a successful site visit and contract negotiations.
- Requested the Bylaws Committee develop an amendment to the Bylaws to enable AOA Board Certified allergists to qualify for Fellowship.
- Approved the recommended 2017-2019 committee and council appointments.
- Authorized the President to establish a College work group to articulate the financial issues affecting academic allergists and identify the stakeholders who should be engaged to answer those questions.
- Authorized the President to appoint a task force to develop the topics and criteria for future yardsticks.
- Ratified the decision for the College to support the ACP position paper titled “Addressing Social Determinants to Improve Patient Care and Promote Health Equity: An American College of Physicians Position Paper.”
- Ratified the endorsement of the EAACI/GALEN/EDF/WAO Urticaria Guidelines as recommended by the Executive Committee.
- Ratified the decision for the College to endorse “The International WAO/EAACI Guideline for the Management of Hereditary Angioedema – the 2017 Revision and Update” at the recommendation of the Anaphylaxis Committee.
- Approved the proposed 2018 budget.
- Accepted the recommendation of the Budget Committee to allocate $5,000 per region to support speaker travel to international meetings and authorize the President and President Elect to select the meetings for which College support is provided.
- Approved tentative participation in a joint program with the American Academy of Pediatrics and the National Peanut Board to educate the public about early peanut introduction pending additional information, and authorize the President to appoint a College member as our representative.
- Appointed Dr. Stanley Fineman as a Trustee-at-Large on the Foundation Board for a 4-year term beginning Oct. 30, 2017.
- Ratifed the appointment of Drs. Chipps, Mahr and Tilles as ACAAI Delegates to the WAO House of Delegates for 2018-2019.
- Approved not funding speaker travel to international meetings that take place in countries with travel advisories issued by the U.S. State Department and amend the International Meeting Funding Policy accordingly.
- Approved requests for Retired and Emeritus status as presented.
- Approved the JTFPP’s plan to continue to develop (in addition to guidelines using the GRADE format) the more traditional updated practice parameters on the topics of Drug Allergy and Anaphylaxis.
- Approved Drs. Bradley Chipps and John Oppenheimer for renewed 4-year terms as AllergyWatch Assistant Editors beginning January 2018.
- Approved appointing the following members as Annals Associate Editors for a one-year term beginning January 2018: Drs. Mariana Castells, Mitch Grayson, Matt Greenhawt, Jay Lieberman, Jonathan Spergel, and John Oppenheimer.
- Approved appointing Drs. Anne Ellis and Anna Nowak-Wegrzyn as Annals Deputy Editors for a one-year term beginning January 2018.
- Approved reappointing the following Annals Editorial Board members for a 2-year term beginning January 2018: Lisa M. Bartnikas, MD; Ruchi S. Gupta, MD, MPH; Jonathan A. Bernstein, MD; Terry O. Harville, PhD; Michael S. Blaiss, MD; Richard W. Honsinger, MD; Michael Blumberg, MD; Corinne Allison Keet, MD; Christopher W. Calabria, MD; Guha Krishnaswamy, MD; Bradley E. Chipps, MD; Désirée E. Larenas-Linnemann, MD; Giorgio Ciprandi, MD; Dennis K. Ledford, MD; Donald W. Cockcroft, MD; D. Betty Lew, MD; Christopher Albert Coop, MD; Andrew MacGinnitie, MD, PhD; Linda S. Cox, MD; Eric M. Macy, MD; Mauli Desai, MD; John B. Meiser, MD; Richard D. deShazo, MD; Talal M. Nsouli, MD; Chitra Dinakar, MD; Gary S. Rachelefsky, MD; Sten Dreborg, MD; Ahmad R. Sedaghat, MD; Elizabeth A. Erwin; Joram S. Seggev, MD; Robert E. Esch, PhD Roland Solensky, MD; Enrique Fernandez-Caldas, MD; Ricardo Tan, MD; Stanley M. Fineman, MD; Ronald S. Walls, MD, PhD; Theodore M. Freeman, MD Richard L. Wasserman, MD, PhD; Maureen George, PhD; Miles M. Weinberger, MD; David B.K. Golden, MD; Kevin M. White, MD; Paul A. Greenberger, MD.
- Approved appointing the following members to the Annals Editorial Board for a 2-year term beginning January 2018: John A. Bird, MD; John R. Cohn, MD; Alan P. Knutsen, MD; Bruce J. Lanser, MD; Iris Otani, MD; David R. Stukus, MD; Jonathan S. Tam, MD; Richard Weber, MD.
- Authorized the President to appoint a task force to develop a competitive $5,000 grant program, to be awarded to a training program, to validate the value of allergist care for the treatment of asthma.
- Approved the 2018-2020 Strategic Plan.
- Approved the Advocacy Council of ACAAI join the coalition – Biologics Prescribers Collaborative – which ensures physicians who prescribe complex biologic treatments are included in the formation of policy that shapes the use of biosimilars.
- Approved free Alliance membership for all spouses/significant others and eliminate Alliance membership dues beginning in 2018.
- Approved the nomination of Dr. Mark Corbett (with Dr. Bill Dolen as alternate) to the ABMS Vision Commission by the 1/1/18 nomination deadline date and request the EMD to ask the AAAAI whether they are interested in submitting a joint nomination.
- Requested the President work with the AAAAI leadership to determine an appropriate individual to jointly nominate for consideration to serve on the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.
- Approved charging ACAAI Allied Health Members an early registration rate of $275, and non-ACAAI Allied Health Members an early registration rate of $350 to attend the 2018 Annual Meeting which would include access to the general annual meeting sessions, the Allied Health Professionals Course and Advance Practice Course at no additional fee.
- Approved the 2018 Spouse/Guest Hospitality Suite to be open Friday, Saturday and Sunday mornings during the 2018 Annual Meeting.
- Ratified the decision to have the Asthma Committee to review the American College of Chest Physicians’ Treating Cough due to Non-CF and CF Bronchiectasis with Non-Pharmacological Airway Clearance: CHEST Expert Panel Report and authorized the President to provide College endorsement of the document if recommended by the Officers.
- Approved the participation of Dr. Peng in the SPARK workgroup.
- Reached a consensus to offer a SPARK program at the 2018 Annual Meeting funded up to $25,000 by the ACAAI Foundation.
- Approved the administration of a joint ACAAI-BSACI survey to collect information on skin testing practices among College members.
- Approved the establishment of a strategic partnership between the College and the National Food Allergy Death Registry.
- Approved sending a SLIT follow-up survey to members, contingent on the Executive Medical Director’s review of the survey.
