History
2019
- A third year of successful GAIN Campaign fundraising allowed the first-ever awarding of four Faculty Development Awards.
Six new Named Lectureships were announced in 2019:
- Bench to Bedside: K. Frank Austen, MD FAAAAI & Albert L. Sheffer, MD FAAAAI Lectureship and Award
- Michael M. Frank, MD FAAAAI Lectureship
- Allen P. Kaplan, MD FAAAAI Lectureship: Creating Knowledge for Our Future
- Harold S. Nelson, MD FAAAAI Lectureship: Investing Together in Our Future
- Richard F. Lockey, MD MS FAAAAI & University of South Florida Lectureship and Award
- David S. Pearlman, MD FAAAAI Lectureship: Contributing to Discovery and Education
2018
- A second year of successful GAIN Campaign fundraising allowed the awarding of three Faculty Development Awards in 2018.
Three new Named Lectureships were fully funded and announced at the 2018 AAAAI/WAO Joint Congress:
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Dennis K. Ledford, MD FAAAAI & University of South Florida Allergy & Immunology Division Lectureship
2017
- A successful GAIN Campaign ensured the granting of THREE Faculty Development Awards in 2017.
Four new Named Lectureships were announced at the 2017 Annual Meeting, honoring:
- Bettina C. Hilman, MD FAAAAI Term 2018-2022
- Phillip E. Korenblat, MD FAAAAI – Term 2018-2022
- Gary S. Rachelefsky, MD FAAAAI – Term 2018-2022
- And in memory of Sheldon L. Spector, MD FAAAAI
2016
- The AAAAI Foundation announces the 2016 GAIN Campaign (Grow Allergy & Immunology Now) which raised over $316,000 (127%) of its $250,000 goal. The campaign's success will make three Faculty Development Awards in 2017 a reality.
- End-of-year giving increased by 45% over 2015; gifts made In Honor and In Memory of esteemed colleagues tripled over 2015; the percentage of members making donations in 2016 rose from 7% to just under 10%.
- 2016 Regional, State and Local Allergy Society (RSL) Challenge generated over $64,000 of the $316,000 raised in 2016.
- The 2016 5K Run/Walk, held during the Annual Meeting in Los Angeles, attracts a record 500 registrants.
Two new Named Lectureships were announced at the 2016 Annual Meeting, honoring:
- I. Leonard Bernstein, MD FAAAAI Memorial Lectureship
- Louis Mendelson Lectureship: Investing Together in Our Future
2015
- The ARTrust changes its name to more closely align with the AAAAI, becoming the AAAAI Foundation.
- The Foundation’s mission is refreshed to read: “Funding research that leads to the prevention and cure of asthma and allergic and immunologic disease.”
- The award program is streamlined to provide for two annual Faculty Development Awards of $240,000 each, granted over three years.
- A new Foundation Council is established with a structure that provides direct and frequent reporting to the AAAAI Board of Directors.
2013 – 2014
The ARTrust reaches its goal of raising $10 million. The ARTrust 5K Run/Walk is established.
The following Lectureships and Funds are announced:
- Donald Leung and JACI Editors Allergy/Immunology Research Fund
- Dr. William and Judith H. Busse Lectureship: Investing Together in Our Future
- Donald Y. M. Leung, MD, PhD-JACI Lecture: Investing Together in Our Future
- Phil and Barbara Lieberman and Friends Lecture: Investing Together in Our Future
- Stephen D. Lockey, Jr., MD Lecture: Investing Together in Our Future
- Anjuli Seth Nayak, MD Lecture: Investing Together in Our Future
- William T. Shearer and Lynn Des Prez Lecture: Investing Together in Our Future
- Louis Mendelson Lectureship Fund: Investing Together in Our Future
2011 – 2012
- The ART reaches the milestone of over $4.5 million dollars granted.
- Partnership initiatives include the renaissance of Named Lectureships and Honor Funds, resulting in a new campaign name “ARTrust, Investing Together in Our Future.”
- First Mini-Grants are awarded.
2010 – 2011
- Dennis K. Ledford, MD, FAAAAI, announces goal for the corpus to reach $10 million, naming the effort “Impact 2012.”
2009
- The AAAAI Board of Directors approves the proposal to set-up the ARTrust as a separate 501(c)(3) corporation organized and operated as a supporting organization to AAAAI.
2007 – 2008
- ART leadership determines various target groups within the AAAAI membership for specific marketing messages.
2006 – 2007
- The Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Education and Research Trust (ART) is created to support both training programs and practicing allergists/immunologist, and to increase education and research efforts.
2005 – 2006
- A Hurricane Katrina Fund is established by the AAAAI Board of Directors and through donations from members. ERT establishes Growth Funds.
2004
ERT offers new grants:
- Clinical Research Grants
- Allied Health Travel Grants
- Support of the Phoenix Program Award as one of the founding partners.
2003
- ERT surpasses $2 million in awards granted since the ERT's inception in 1991.
2002
ERT governing bodies are restructured to include:
- Oversight Committee (oversees all ERT activities)
- Resource Development Committee (principal fundraising entity)
- ERT Board of Trustees (award granting body)
2001
- "Securing Our Future" begins offering giving opportunities to assist the ERT Development Committee's goal of increasing the corpus.
2000
- Successful completion of the "Looking to Our Future" campaign.
- ERT corpus balance is $8,300,000 as of June 1, 2000.
1996 – 1999
- AAAAI members are challenged to pledge $5 million to complete the goal of a $10 million trust.
1993
- The ERT awards its first grant: “Faculty Development Award.”
1991
- Education and Research Trust - ERT - announced and President John A. Anderson, MD, FAAAAI, pushes for members to invest in the ERT through the “$10 Million” campaign.
1988
- The Education and Research Fund is established as part of AAAAI.