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Support Guidelines

FOCIS does not generally provide financial support for meetings other than the FOCIS Annual Meeting. The FOCIS Board of Directors may consider providing funding for external activities organized by constituent societies or FOCIS Centers of Excellence, including travel awards to support trainee participation in such events, provided the activity advances one or more of the goals below. The decision to financially support such activities shall be made by the Board of Directors on a case-by-case basis.

FOCIS funds shall be exclusively used to advance the Primary Objectives and Operating Purposes outlined in the bylaws. Acceptable uses of FOCIS funds include:

• Organizing an annual meeting involving clinician scientists from many different constituent societies, which share an interest in the field of clinical immunology
• Educating the community, physicians, trainees, and patients, in the broad discipline of clinical immunology as well as promoting understanding of the field of clinical immunology

The FOCIS Board of Directors shall allocate funds to activities that advance one or more of the following goals:

• Provide a scientific forum to foster the cross-disciplinary approach required to understand and treat immune-based diseases as the discipline of clinical immunology evolves
• Advance understanding of the shared pathophysiological underpinnings of clinical immunology and the new therapeutic approaches suggested by these novel relationships, including the increasingly widespread use of biologics in therapy
• Educate trainees, physicians, patients and the public in the discipline of clinical immunology
• Promote the study of issues pertinent to public health, welfare and safety in the field of clinical immunology

The FOCIS Board of Directors may also authorize providing in-kind marketing and fundraising support for events organized by constituent societies, FOCIS Centers of Excellence, or other organizations that advance the field of clinical immunology.