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Dear colleagues:
May is National Asthma Awareness Month, making it an appropriate time to focus on the visibility and the credibility of our specialty. I am pleased to report that the AAAAI and the American College of Asthma, Allergy & Immunology (ACAAI) recently joined forces to develop a cooperative Rapid Response Communications Strategy. This tactical policy ensures that issues of immediate national concern to our specialty will be addressed promptly, decisively and with the unified voice of our two respected organizations.
As noted in the May issue of AAAAI News, we just completed some changes to the AAAAI Web site that facilitate outreach to the media and to the public. Log on to the Members Only section and you will find new resources for promoting your practice and the specialty. The section features public relations tips, tools and tactics in an easy-to-navigate format. There are timely press release templates, as well as helpful tips on contacting the media, responding to calls from the media, interviewing techniques and additional promotional ideas.
Speaking of this Members Only resource, there is now a direct link (literally and figuratively) to our Speakers’ Bureau. Whether it’s speaking before an assembly of healthcare professionals or taking time to give your expert advice at a meeting of a local lay organization, you are enhancing both the visibility and the image of our specialty. I encourage you to let the AAAAI staff help you uncover speaking opportunities by signing up for the Bureau. The Speakers’ Bureau is now highlighted in the Patients and Consumers Center, increasing the number of opportunities for us to engage in dialog about the role of the allergist/immunologist.
Use of the AAAAI Web site, www.aaaai.org, continues to increase, especially among patients and consumers searching for information and referrals. For the benefit of both our members as well as patients seeking a specialist, we’ve made technological improvements to “Find an Allergist/Immunologist,” the physician referral directory located in the Patients and Consumers Center. This network now functions in real time. When you make a change to your contact information in our membership directory, the change will instantly appear in the referral guide.
As always, we welcome your feedback regarding Web site changes and enhancements.
Thomas B. Casale, MD, FAAAAI
AAAAI President
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AAAAI statements: new central review system
To continue providing important guidance on clinical issues, the AAAAI Board of Directors recently approved a modified development process for AAAAI statements. A new central review system will help ensure that relevant topics in allergy/immunology are being addressed and work is not duplicated.
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AAAAI/CIS/NIAID Hypersensitivity/Allergic Diseases Summer School planned
Junior faculty and senior Fellows-in-Training (FITs), 30 applicants in all, will be selected for the second Hypersensitivity/Allergic Diseases Summer School, hosted by the AAAAI, the Clinical Immunology Society (CIS), and the National institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Division of Allergy, Immunology and Transplantation. The intensive, four-day, residential school course will be held September 6-10, in Estes Park, CO.
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May Patient Update handout
Breathe free and protect the environment
New AAAAI/Food Allergy Initiative Third-Year Fellowship Research Award
The AAAAI is pleased to announce the 2007 AAAAI/Food Allergy Initiative Third-Year Fellowship Research Award. The award supports the development of an academic food allergy research career for a third-year, allergy/immunology Fellow-in-Training in the specialty of allergy, asthma and immunology at an accredited allergy/immunology training program in the United States.
The application deadline is May 7. The award is funded by the Food Allergy Initiative and administered by the AAAAI. For more information, including an application, visit the AAAAI Web site, http://www.aaaai.org/members/only/grants_awards/aaaaigrantsawards/
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2007 Eos Connection Travel Awards
The American Partnership for Eosinophilic Disorders (APFED) is offering 10, $500 and five, $1,000 travel awards for families to attend the 2007 APFED conference in Salt Lake City, UT, July 20-22. The application deadline is May 20. For more information or an application, visit www.apfed.org
Position available: Allergy & Asthma Disease Management Center editor
A new editor is needed for the AAAAI Allergy & Asthma Disease Management Center (AADMC), www.aaaai.org/aadmc. The AADMC is an interactive Web site that provides timely, practical and important information to physicians from a wide variety of backgrounds and clinical practice.
A detailed description of the position is available in the Members Only section of the AAAAI Web site, www.aaaai.org/members/login.asp. Interested AAAAI members may also contact Steve Folstein at the AAAAI executive office at (414) 272-6071 or e-mail sfolstein@aaaai.org
2007 AAAAI Practice Management Workshop
AAAAI members will gain ideas to help expand and grow their practices during the 2007 Practice Management Workshop. The workshop will be held July 20-22 in Bellevue, WA (greater Seattle area). Members may register online via the AAAAI Web site.
In-Training Exam available
All AAAAI members may now take advantage of the In-Training Exam as a self-assessment tool. In addition, the In-Training Exam has now been approved to offer 5 CME credits.
The exam for non-FITs will be held June 11-30. For more information, contact Katie Muellenbach at the AAAAI executive office at (414) 272-6071 or e-mail kmuellenbach@aaaai.org.
FOCIS hosts AAAAI satellite program
The AAAAI will conduct a satellite program during the Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies (FOCIS) Annual Meeting, June 7-11, in San Diego, CA. “Immune Response in Silico” will be held Thursday, June 7, from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. For more information, visit http://www.focisnet.org/meetings/am07/satellite.php.
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