Registration Hours
(All times listed in PT*)
Wednesday, January 17: 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Thursday, January 18: 6:30 am – 6:30 pm
Friday, January 19: 6:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Saturday, January 20: 6:30 am – 2:00 pm
Agenda is subject to change.
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*All Credits are pending approval for COPE, FL Board Optometry, FL Board Opticianry, TX Board of Optometry.
*Note: The CEE, or Transcript Quality (TQ), courses are noted by the (CEE) tag. You can sort by this tag under Advanced Filters.
To discuss Ortho-k design and troubleshoot common complications
Objectives:
- Understanding Ortho-k design
- Understanding topography maps with Ortho-k
- Troubleshooting cases
The concept that all forms of contact lens wear are intrinsically inflammatory is discussed in the context of specialty lens fitting.
Objectives:
- To understand the sub-clinical inflammatory nature of contact lens wear
- To consider whether this sub-clinical inflammatory nature of contact lens wearis protective
- To discover the implications of the sub-clinical inflammatory nature of contact lens wear for specialty lens fitting
In 2001, Professor Nathan Efron predicted the virtual demise of rigid (gas permeable) lenses over the next decade, whereby only about 1% of lenses fitted would be rigid lenses, and wrote their “obituary” in 2010. Indeed, rigid lens fitting in most countries has declined to less than 10% of all lens fits. The annual Contact Lens Spectrum International Contact Lens Prescribing Survey demonstrates that rigid lenses comprised about 10% of lens fittings overall from 2007-2017 although some countries reported much higher prescribing rates. However, there has been a resurgence of rigid lens fitting over the past three to four years (now at about 14% of overall lens fits in 2022 internationally) secondary to renewed interest in orthokeratology for controlling myopia progression, and advances in scleral and corneo-scleral lens options. Professor Bennett, Executive Director of the Gas Permeable Lens Institute, returns to debate Professor Efron once again on the benefits of gas permeable lenses in the contact lens practice and argues that they are not dead.
Objectives:
- Learn about historical prescribing rates of rigid and soft contact lenses
- Understand advances in rigid lenses that contribute to increased prescribing trends
- Understand safety, limitations and indications for rigid and soft lenses for correction of refractive error
When spectacle correction is insufficient to achieve best corrected vision, contact lenses can optimize vision, contribute to accurate calculation and use of vision enhancing devices, and enhance cosmesis to achieve patients’ functional goals.
Objectives:
- Recognize the need for specialty CL evaluation to optimize vision, prior to a LV exam
- Understand CL options and prescribe, refer, or co-manage
- Understand how CL enhances LV devices
Exploration of clinical pearls to optimize care for keratoconus patients and practitioners. Emphasis on understanding the condition, reviewing essential equipment, conducting efficient exams, and offering appropriate treatment to control the disease and enhance vision.
Objectives:
- Help eye care practitioners feel confident about keratoconus management, from early detection to disease control and vision optimization
- Understand necessary equipment and clinic set-up to ensure successful keratoconus management
- Understand role of corneal cross-linking in early keratoconus management and contact lens fittings to optimize health and vision
This case driven course focuses on how to approach orthokeratology fitting
based on corneal topography and tomography. This will also include how to select appropriate
patients and approach troubleshooting common fitting adjustments using corneal mapping
technologies.
Objectives:
- Understand when to start fitting orthokeratology contact lenses for myopia management and whom to fit based on patient history and corneal mapping.
- Understanding corneal shape as it is described through different topography and tomography maps such as axial, tangential, refractive, elevation, pachymetry, and ectasia screening.
- Learn how to implement follow-up care and modify common troubleshooting adjustments in orthokeratology care.
Skilled practitioners have mastered how to assess the fit of a scleral lens. But what about when a fit goes south? Join four residency-trained cornea and contact lens specialists, all who own their own specialty contact lens practice, for a two-part panel discussion on interesting and novel “in the trenches” techniques that have led to patient success.
Objectives:
- Start thinking beyond the “traditional” fit.
- Learn about the similarities of each subgroup of patients and the complications that arise from their fits.
- Anticipate and fix complications before they arise.
- Have confidence in providing care to difficult patients
This presentation will discuss the diverse applications of scleral lenses beyond vision correction, including piggyback scleral lenses, oblate designs for keratoconus, scleral lenses for ptosis, drug delivery, prism correction, low vision, and optic decentration for fitting.
Objectives:
- To provide valuable insights into the many special applications of scleral lenses.
- To demonstrate scleral lens versatility and potential for improving the vision and quality of life of patients with various ocular conditions.
- To show their utility in drug delivery.
Exploration of clinical pearls to optimize care for keratoconus patients and practitioners. Emphasis on understanding the condition, reviewing essential equipment, conducting efficient exams, and offering appropriate treatment to control the disease and enhance vision.
Objectives:
- Help eye care practitioners feel confident about keratoconus management, from early detection to disease control and vision optimization
- Understand necessary equipment and clinic set-up to ensure successful keratoconus management
- Understand role of corneal cross-linking in early keratoconus management and contact lens fittings to optimize health and vision
This case driven, -hour course focuses on how to approach orthokeratology fitting based on corneal topography and tomography. This will also include how to select appropriate patients and approach troubleshooting common fitting adjustments using corneal mapping technologies.
Objectives:
- Understand when to start fitting orthokeratology contact lenses for myopia management and whom to fit based on patient history and corneal mapping.
- Understanding corneal shape as it is described through different topography and tomography maps such as axial, tangential, refractive, elevation, pachymetry, and ectasia screening.
- Learn how to implement follow-up care and modify common troubleshooting adjustments in orthokeratology care.
Skilled practitioners have mastered how to assess the fit of a scleral lens. But what about when a fit goes south? Join four residency-trained cornea and contact lens specialists, all who own their own specialty contact lens practice, for a two-part panel discussion on interesting and novel “in the trenches” techniques that have led to patient success.
Objectives:
- Start thinking beyond the “traditional” fit.
- Learn about the similarities of each subgroup of patients and the complications that arise from their fits.
- Anticipate and fix complications before they arise.
- Have confidence in providing care to difficult patients
Fitting scleral multifocal is often not on the top of everyone’s favorite to do list. Multifocal fitting of scleral lenses is often a challenge and working with scleral lenses can be intimidating. In this course we will review patient selection tips, communication strategies to improve success, multifocal lens designs, troubleshooting strategies and new technology. Customization of multifocal designs along with the use of technology will be reviewed. Decentering optics and applying HOA optics to lenses will also be covered. With all the new technology we have, fitting multifocal lenses just got a lot more interesting.
Objectives:
- To have the tips and tricks to effective communication expectations of both presbyopia and a multifocal step by step fit.
- To understand the used of customized optics including decentering optics, optic zone size and add power distribution patterns.
- To understand the use of HOA optics and the impact on multifocal lens designs.
This course will discuss how optometrists and ophthalmologists can collaborate to manage patients with ocular diseases that require specialty contact lenses, the impact on the underlying condition, contact lens fitting approaches, and follow up care.
Objectives:
- Discuss why care collaboration between optometry and ophthalmology is needed for specialty contact lens patients
- Identify what is pertinent to communicate between providers for the patient's underlying condition
- Describe how ocular surgeries can impact the specialty contact lens patient
- Discuss pertinent findings to monitor and diagnostic testing to perform at follow up visits of specialty contact lens patients
