Membership Options
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.
Benefits
- Occasional IACFS/ME Newsletter/ Updates
- Discounted fees to our international biennial research and clinical conference
(Note: Online access to our peer-reviewed quarterly journal, Fatigue: Biomedicine, Health and Behavior, may be ordered separately 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.)
Supporting Membership
This category is for institutional, corporations, support 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.