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Celebrating Over 80 Years Of Service!

The American Academy of Otolaryngic Allergy (AAOA) represents over 2,700 Board-certified otolaryngologists and health care providers. Otolaryngology, frequently referred to as Ear, Nose, and Throat (ENT), uniquely combines medical and surgical expertise to care for patients with a variety of conditions affecting the ears, nose, and throat, as well as commonly related conditions. AAOA members devote part of their practice to the diagnosis and treatment of allergic disease. The AAOA actively supports its membership through education, research, and advocacy in the care of allergic patients.

"Advance the comprehensive management of allergy and inflammatory disease in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery through training, education, and advocacy."

AAOA Member Benefits

  • Up to 60% discount for CME programs and free Annual Meeting. All AAOA’s CME programs meet ABOTOHNS Continuing Certification.
  • AAOA US ENT Affinity program, where AAOA members can gain savings on antigen, allergy supplies, and any of the other 5 service lines US ENT offers. For more email info@usentpartners.com.
  • Tools and resources to comply with US General Chapter 797 and practice management tools.
  • Advocacy support.
  • And much more! Learn More

ADVOCACY UPDATES

CMS to Provide Advanced Payments to Those Affected by the Change Healthcare Cyberattack

On Saturday, March 9, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a statement…

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Policy Update: State of the Union Address, Budget Updates

President Biden’s State of the Union Address State of the Union Transcript State of the Union Video…

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Medicare Physician Payment

AMA Advocacy Update The House of Representatives voted 339-85 on March 6 to pass the…

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Upcoming Dates

04/01/24: Fellow Exam Application Deadline
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06/01/24: Research Grant Cycle
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06/25/24: Membership Application Deadline to be eligible for AAOA Member rate for the 2024 Basic Course

08/02/24: Scientific Abstract Submission Deadline
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12/01/24: Research Grant Cycle
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EDUCATION

AAOA Advanced Course

The recorded course content is available until April 30, 2024. This year’s Advanced Course featured Laryngology and Skull Base Surgery with Nausheen Jamal, MD and Garret Choby, MD as featured faculty.

RESIDENTS

For information about Resident membership, opportunities, DosedDaily, research grants, and other resources. Learn More

IFAR

Available Now

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IFAR Impact Factor: 2.454

IFAR Featured Content: COVID-19 - Free Access
Endonasal instrumentation and aerosolization risk in the era of COVID‐19: simulation, literature review, and proposed mitigation strategies . Read More

Changes in Managing Practices

Working together with AAOA staff, volunteer leadership and members will enable us to have a positive impact on our members’ practices.

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Live and Online CME

2024 AAOA Advanced Course in Allergy & Immunology - Hybrid
On-Demand Content Access Deadline:
April 30, 2024
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2024 AAOA Basic Course in Allergy & Immunology - Hybrid
July 25-27, 2024
The Diplomat, Hollywood, Florida
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2024 AAOA Annual Meeting - Hybrid
November 8-10, 2024
Four Seasons Hotel Las Vegas
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USP 797 Online Module
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AAOA Educational Stacks
Next Availability - April 1, 2024

News and Updates

Member Perspective on AAOA Value

by Dole Baker, MD, FAAOA Having been a long-time member of the AAOA, recent upgrades…

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CEO Update, February 2024

Funny how there are so many metaphors for life in some of our day-to-day activities. …

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College Allergy Symptoms Treatment Back to Shcool

PRACTICE RESOURCES

AAOA Practice Resource Tool Kit

The American Academy of Otolaryngic Allergy (AAOA) Practice Resource Tool Kit is intended as a guide to help AAOA members integrate allergy into their otolaryngology practice and to continually improve on this integration as new information, regulations, and resources become available.

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PARTNER RESOURCE CENTER

AAOA has launched a Partner Resource Center to bring you partner resources that can assist your practice and patient care.

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PATIENT CORNER

Leap to Moon AAOA CEO Update

We Are Rolling Out Our First Completely Virtual CME Course

Chamberlain’s often-used quote about living in interesting times used to sound trite, but today it does not seem to say enough to help describe how the world has changed. There are days it seems like we are climbing up the first hill of a roller coaster as it is still being built. We are all waiting for normal, whatever new normal is, while mustering along each day.

What does this mean for the AAOA? What does it mean for our members? How do we pivot to help assure we are offering services, tools, and education to help?

As the impact of COVID became real, we started to sift and sort the overwhelming amount of information. We polled members to get
some peer-to-peer examples of what members were doing (https://www.aaoallergy.org/news-from-aaoa/aaoa-covid-19-member-alert/). It became clear early that the new reality is very different depending on incidence and exposure.

We worked with AMA in healthcare efforts to get Congress, CMS, HHS, and other regulatory agencies to lift restraints on healthcare. Working together, we pushed for changes in telehealth, access to PPE, and support for physicians and their practices through the PPP in the CARES Act. We continue to monitor and work with our peer organizations to help support not only healthcare’s COVID response, but the future of medicine and physicians’ ability to re-engage in patient care and re-open their practices.
As states start relaxing restrictions, we added to our resources to include our Just In Time Content Zoom Cast Series and our Re-Starting SCIT Resource Tool.

As we are putting together this issue, we are building our new virtual course — Core Allergy & Rhinology Concepts: Age of Pandemics and
Beyond
: Learn How to Reboot Your Practice and Freshen Up on Core Allergy and Rhinology Components. We culled feedback from members to help assure we hit the key topics pertinent to rebooting an otolaryngology practice. As we consider the challenges from COVID, rebooting practices opens a whole new set of questions and challenges that cause one to pause and re-think priorities. Scope of practice, patient and payer mix, cash flow, staffing skills and priorities, safety, and rebuilding patient trust all tie to how one considers pathways to reboot and regain their practice. Our goal is to make this content accessible.

So we are rolling out our first completely virtual CME Course. We are rolling it out in parts to help assure access and to get the content out in a timely way. We have reduced our cost per CME hour by 50% and offered pricing options. Members can access all three parts or register only for the parts that help them now.

This also opens opportunities to register your staff for the Core Allergy component for either a refresher on allergy diagnosis, testing, vial prep,
dosing, and related key concepts or for those who are hiring new staff to help jump start your allergy practice.

Our third component will focus on re-starting rhinology in your practice from the diagnosis and office-based procedures to core concepts in overall rhinology patient management.

We are striving to help deliver resources that will help our members rebuild their practices. We hope you will consider this unique opportunity to participate in AAOA CME programming virtually.

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