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Professional Memberships (Regular, Lifetime and Honorary)

Professional Membership is for any researcher, clinician or health care professional interested in ME/CFS activities. Professionals involved with legal issues or those involved with not-for-profit or government agencies related to ME/CFS are also welcome. All professional members are entitled to vote on all organizational matters that must be approved by the board of directors. For those applying to be a member, a membership committee will review each applicant and make a recommendation to the Board of Directors.

The annual fee for Regular Professional Membership is $125 USD with a 2 year Regular Professional Membership fee of $195 USD. Professional members will be listed on the IACFS/ME website with accessibility to a directory consisting of other professional IACFS/ME members unless they specifically opt not to be listed.

Honorary professional members have been recognized for their special contributions to the battle against CFS by a two-thirds majority vote by the board of directors. No fee is required of honorary professional members.

Benefits

• Online access to our peer-reviewed quarterly journal: Fatigue: Biomedicine, Health and Behavior ($169 if      purchased separately)
• Occasional IACFS/ME Newsletter/ Updates
• Discounted fees to our international biennial research and clinical conference.
• Ability to network with other IACFS/ME members
• Opportunities to participate in IACFS/ME position statements, initiatives, projects

Associate Membership

This category is for students, patients and their families, and other interested individuals.  The annual fee for Associate Membership is $50 USD with a 2 year Associate Membership fee of $75 USD. 

Associate members have a non-voting status with respect to all organizational matters that must be approved by the board of directors and the Professional Membership.  

Online access to our peer-reviewed quarterly journal, Fatigue: Biomedicine, Health and Behavior, may be ordered by Associate Members for $20 USD/ year.  Print copies and online access can be purchased for $30 USD/ year. See Online Journal Access page. Without membership, the journal can be purchased alone for $169/year.

Benefits

• Occasional IACFS/ME Newsletter/ Updates
• Discounted subscription fee for our peer-reviewed quarterly journal: Fatigue: Biomedicine, Health and    Behavior ($169 if purchased separately)
• Discounted fees to our international biennial research and clinical conference

Supporting Membership

This category is for institutional/ corporate/  nonprofit groups and individual sponsors. ;Supporting members can contribute at the Standard ($200, all in USD), Bronze ($500), Silver ($1,000), Gold ($2,500) or Platinum ($5,000) levels annually. Supporting members can also make donations in any amount to the Rudy Perpich Memorial Fund, the Junior Investigator Award or the IACFS/ME General Fund.

Supporting members have a non-voting status with respect to all organizational matters that must be approved by the board of directors and the Professional Membership.  There will be a separate area on the website acknowledging supporting members.

Benefits

• Online access to our peer-reviewed quarterly journal: Fatigue: Biomedicine, Health and Behavior
• Occasional IACFS/ME Newsletter/ Updates
• Discounted fees to our international biennial research and clinical conference

Print Subscriptions

A print version of our new subscription-based peer review journal, Fatigue: Biomedicine, Health, and Behavior, published quarterly by Routledge/Taylor and Francis, is available as a paid subscription without membership. See Online Journal Access page for details.