National Volunteer Week is a time to recognize our members who give their time and expertise to advance our specialty. Our volunteers drive the College’s success by serving on councils, committees, editorial boards, writing groups and task forces that are the bloodline of our organization.
Each year, hundreds of members lend their skills and expertise to help develop resources, lead initiatives, and collaborate on critical issues. Their commitment ensures that the College continues to support practicing allergists and advocate for our profession. Below are a few examples of their impact:
- Committees across the College are working together to develop valuable resources for allergists. The Drug Allergy Committee and the Clinical Programs, Patient Safety, and Quality Committee collaborated to create the Drug Allergy Protocol Online Library.
- The Practice Management Committee partnered with various committees under the Science Council to develop the Prior Authorization Toolkit. The toolkit includes prior authorization appeal letter generators for 15 drug/disease combinations to support your practice – including our newest letters for neffy/anaphylaxis, SMART/asthma and Xolair/food allergy.
- The Advocacy Council developed the Payer Education Campaign page that contains resources from the PEC and the Advocacy Alerts page where all Advocacy eblasts are listed. Ten College leaders will be traveling to Washington in early May as the 2025 Allergy Strike Force. Leaders will advocate for Medicare fee schedule reform (offset the current 2.83% cut and tie annual updates to the MEI), commercial insurance carrier issues (PBMs, Prior Authorization and Medicare Advantage), and to restore NIH indirect cost funding to previous levels.
- Our volunteer moderators and faculty led a variety of webinars and podcasts on essential topics, including anaphylaxis, food allergy, asthma rescue vaccine developments, pediatric HAE , 2025 coding, 95165, artificial intelligence and more.
- The Education MicroCME Workgroup recently created 27 new MicroCME modules for the College Learning Connection! These bite-sized courses provide focused learning and CME credit in just 15 to 30 minutes. Topics include respiratory disorders, dermatology, immunology, practice management, environmental issues, drug allergy, food allergy, infectious diseases, rhinitis and more.
- The Value Based Care Task Force works to identify, support, and test value-based care models that apply to allergists/immunologists. The Telehealth and Technology Task Force assesses technology-related needs for allergy practices and develops relevant resources for technology use (i.e., AI, remote patient monitoring, e-visits, e-scheduling and more).
The spirit of giving back not only strengthens our specialty, but also builds a stronger community. Our volunteers ensure the College provides up-to-date resources and support so you can provide outstanding patient care.
We appreciate every member who has stepped forward to volunteer. Your passion and dedication are what makes the College thrive. If you’re interested in getting more involved, there are many opportunities to contribute in ways that fit your interests and availability.
