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
To debate controversial topics in the contact lens field.
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
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
This lecture will cover historic, present, and futuristic approaches for the detection and management of keratoconus. Topics covered will include: past and present keratoconus research involving the CLEK study, pediatric keratoconus, new insights for defining keratoconus progression and how technology has advanced clinical practice for keratoconus management.
Objectives:
- 1. The participant will learn about the how the CLEK study has changed our understanding of keratoconus and its management utilizing contact lenses.
- 2. The participant will learn how keratoconus affects the pediatric population and approaches for earlier detection.
- 3. The participant will learn about new research that has advanced the understanding of defining keratoconus progression.
- 4. The participant will learn how advanced technology has improved our ability to clinically manage the keratoconus patient.
This course, delivered in Spanish and targeting the growing number of practitioners from Spanish speaking countries, will review the causes of all issues and complications that clinicians may encounter during scleral lens fitting, referring to clinical experience and literature reports, and will provide guidelines to resolve such issues.
Objectives:
- Understand the potential complications related to scleral lenses.
- Identify the signs and symptoms of complications.
- Learn how to manage and prevent complications related to scleral lens fitting.
