The following are key actions recently taken by the ACAAI Executive Committee.
- Enabled Allied Health Professionals who attend the 2023 Annual Meeting to register for and attend the Women in Allergy Luncheon at no charge.
- Ratified the decision to present a Sister Society Symposium at the Jan. 27-29 WAO Meeting in Dubai with the understanding there will be no cost to the College for our participation in the program.
- Accepted the preliminary unaudited Financial Statements for the period ending 12/31/2022.
- Ratified the appointment of Tim Chow, MD, Iris Otani, MD, FACAAI, and Sarah Spriet, DO, FACAAI, as Assistant Editors for AllergyWatch replacing Brad Chipps, MD, FACAAI, Anthony Montanaro, MD, FACAAI (Emeritus), and John Oppenheimer, MD, FACAAI.
- Ratified the appointment of Anthony Montanaro, MD, FACAAI (Emeritus), as Associate Editor of AllergyWatch.
- Approved the proposed ACAAI Alliance Governance Modification Plan as presented.
- Requested the Allergists’ Foundation Board to modify its bylaws to remove the two current Alliance positions from its Board of Directors but continue to consider member spouses/partners for service on select Foundation committees as appropriate.
- Allocated additional funding in the 2023 Alliance Annual Meeting budget to cover the higher-than anticipated Hospitality Suite speaker fees.
- Affirmed maintaining the dual role of the College Historian and Archives Committee Chair and establish a four-year term, once renewable, for this position.
- Appointed Bobby Lanier, MD, FACAAI (Emeritus), as the College’s Historian/Archives Committee Chair for a four-year once renewable term effective immediately.
- Requested the following description be added to the ACAAI Governance Manual: “Historian — The role of the ACAAI Historian is to serve as Chair of the Archives Committee, announce the names of the deceased members at the College’s Annual Business Meeting, and serve as a resource for historical information that may or may not exist in other documents or publications. The Historian is appointed by the Executive Committee to serve a four-year term with the option to be reappointed for one additional term.”
- Allocated additional funding in the 2023 budget to continue supporting the digital ad campaign designed to encourage PCPs to visit our campaign website and refer their allergy/asthma patients to board certified allergists.
- Approved the addition of a FIT liaison to the Education Council as proposed and modifying the Governance Manual accordingly.
- Approved holding a one-day Allergen Mixing Course in June or August of 2023 at the O’Hare Hilton as presented.
- Approved the development of the ACAAI Review for the Allergy and Immunology Boards, 5th Edition in March 2023; and allocated funding in the 2023 and 2024 budgets to cover the anticipated expenses.
- Restrict participation in the FIT Bowl to the first 32 schools that apply (including the championship teams from Canada and Mexico); give any teams that are not able to be accommodated (and apply by the deadline) priority the following year; and do not incorporate any live or web-based preliminary rounds prior to the event.
- Reappointed Timothy Craig, DO, FACAAI, as the College’s representative to the Angioedema Guideline Expert Panel and Author Group (WAO HAE Guideline Workgroup).
- Approved funding one speaker to participate in an ACAAI Sister Society Symposium at the May 18-20, 2023, WAO Symposium in Hawaii and invite Bryan Martin, DO, FACAAI, and James Sublett, MD, FACAAI, to serve as the other two College speakers with the understanding their expenses would be covered by WAO.
