The Greater Pittsburgh Allergy Asthma & Immunology Society (GPAAIS) is a tax-exempt, Pennsylvania nonprofit corporation organized solely for educational and charitable purposes. The GPAAIS is NOT organized for the private benefit of any person. The GPAAIS was formed for the following specific and primary purposes:
» to serve as a local/regional support organization for allergists, pulmonologists, other asthmatologists, immunologists and related healthcare professionals;
» to connect this group of physicians and related healthcare professionals in order to provide education, networking opportunities, a forum to share best practices, research grants and to serve as a united voice on pertinent healthcare-related public policy matters;
» to leverage this connection to benefit patients and the community at-large by lessening the burden of allergic diseases through the following: fewer school and work absences, a reduced need for costly acute medical care and, in general, allowing allergic disease patients and any caregivers to live near-normal lives;
» to advance, promote or join any other educational or charitable endeavor consistent with its overall mission.
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