What Associations Are Saying...
...about Association Acumen!
Association Acumen is getting noticed for making associations look good.
Association Acumen can supply just one aspect of management, or a full range of services, to fit each client’s needs. For some organizations, we manage every aspect of their headquarters administration. For others, we’ve improved web-based membership management, managed executive transition or guided a strategic planning process.
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OVATIONS
"Thank you for all your hard work in the WIO meeting planning and implementation. Sarah Krause pulled off a great meeting and was wonderful to work with. I look forward to working with Association Acumen over the upcoming year as we plan for the 2010 meeting."
-Eydie Miller-Ellis, M.D.
Member, Women In Ophthalmology Board of Directors
Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology
Director, Glaucoma Service
Scheie Eye Institute
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
"The Association Acumen team did a phenomenal job of organizing the FOCIS meeting. It just flowed. Everything was on time, something that is difficult to achieve, especially at such a large meeting."
-Ingrid Stuiver, Ph.D.
ISG Consulting
Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies (FOCIS) Annual Meeting
San Diego, California
"Thanks for doing such a wonderful job in preparing and executing the International Congress of Mucosal Immunology in Boston. You guys were delightful to work with from beginning to end!"
-Scott B. Snapper, M.D., Ph.D.
Society of Mucosal Immunology (SMI) Co-Chair, ICMI 2009
Associate Chief of Research, Gastrointestinal Unit
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
"Association Acumen has done a superb job managing FOCIS. It makes the leadership look great, but we all know who the real brains are behind FOCIS! Congrats again, and thanks for all!"
-Paul J. Utz
Secretary Treasurer, Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies (FOCIS)
Associate Professor, Medicine-Immunology and Rheumatology
Stanford University
Stanford, California
"The accolades for the RFP development must go to Gail Bast, president of Association Acumen. She has really shown herself to be an expert in the field and her guidance has been outstanding."
-Judy Holzmann
Past President, Wisconsin School Bus Association (WSBA)
Johnson Bus Service
Fond du Lac, Wisconsin
"Association Acumen, led by Gail Bast, a highly experienced administrator, has rapidly brought modern management techniques to our Society, including web-based membership management. These exciting new features, which take place largely behind the scenes, are essential to our productivity and ability to link to all our members in the most user-friendly manner. Under the leadership of Association Acumen, our ability to network and communicate both individually and communally has improved dramatically, and the more streamlined management of SMI allows more time to be spent on important scientific activities."
-Richard S. Blumberg, M.D.
President, Society for Mucosal Immunology (SMI)
Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Chief, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endoscopy
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Co-Director, Harvard Digestive Diseases Center
Boston, Massachusetts
"Association Acumen handles all of FOCIS’ business management issues so that the physician-scientific leaders of FOCIS can concentrate on furthering our work. Gail Bast, owner of Acumen, has proven leadership qualities that a board of directors relies on for organizational growth and development."
-David A. Hafler, M.D.
Past President, Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies (FOCIS)
Chief and Chair of Neurology
Yale-New Haven Hospital
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, Connecticut
"I wanted to thank Association Acumen so very much for all of your hard work and effort. I have received so many calls, comments, texts and emails from WIO members about the meeting and how much it was enjoyed. The efforts of Sarah Krause were pivotal to the success of the meeting."
-Lynn Gordon, M.D., Ph.D.
Treasurer, Women in Ophthalmology (WIO)
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology,
Jules Stein Eye Institute at UCLA