5K Club and 10K Club members are vital to Foundation

The ACAAI Foundation is allocating $200,000 for two 2012 Young Faculty Support Awards and a 2012-13 Fellows-in-Training Program Relief Grant.

“Support from the 5K Club and 10K Club is vital for continuing to help meet the increasing needs for educational support within our specialty,” said ACAAI Foundation President Nathan Segall, MD, FACAAI.

“The Foundation is fortunate that donor contributions have enabled us to continue the College’s tradition of providing a $50,000 two-year fellowship stipend to help ease the financial burden for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,” he said.

Support of this FIT stipend is made possible by donors like Dr. Segall and James Sublett, MD, FACAAI, who recently achieved 10K Club status for their contributions of at least $10,000, and Gullapalli Krishna Rao, MD, FACAAI, who achieved 5K Club status for his contributions of at least $5,000.

In addition to Drs. Segall and Sublett, the 10K Club includes the following Fellows of the College: Sami Bahna, MD, DrPH, Emil Bardana, Jr., MD, Joseph Bellanti, MD, Bradley Chipps, MD, Lawrence DuBuske, MD, David Engler, MD, Stanley Fineman, MD, MBA, Linda Ford, MD, AE-C, Richard Gower, MD, Bobby Lanier, MD, Phillip Lieberman, MD, Alnoor Malick, MD, Kathleen May, MD, Edward O’Connell, MD, Dana Wallace, MD, Richard Weber, MD, and Betty Wray, MD. Corporate donors are ACAAI, the ACAAI Alliance, the New England Society of Allergy and Texas Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Society.

The Foundation website provides a complete list of 10K Club and 5K Club members, information about joining, planned giving programs and Tithe-a-Talk. The Tithe-a-Talk program makes it easy to donate honoraria from your speaking engagement.

The Jean Chapman Endowment Fund for Education was established to help support fellows-in-training travel grants. In times of bereavement, you can request donations be made, in lieu of flowers, to help advance the care of allergy and immunology.

Members of the 5K Club and 10K Club who make their pledge are acknowledged at each Annual Meeting with a special ribbon and listings in the Convention Program Guide and the Foundation Honor Roll display.

We hope you will consider making a cash donation, bequest, a donation of royalties from speaking engagements, or a contribution on your next ACAAI dues statement. Please send your check (made payable to ACAAI Foundation) to ACAAI Foundation, 85 W. Algonquin Road, Suite 550, Arlington Heights, IL 60005.