Friday, May 4, 2012

FR1

Clinical Pearls for the Contact Lens Practice

Walter Choate, OD

COPE PENDING

Commoditization of contact lens care is having an impact on the contact lens industry with increasing complications and continued patients drop outs. This is an overview of hot topics as they relate to decision making in evaluating new and continuing contact lens patients. Areas of discussion are ocular surface disease, a refresher on proper fitting of hydrogel contact lenses, material characteristics, the adverse events associated with silicone hydrogel, the facts on continuous wear today, and advances in solution systems.

FR2

Visual Skills and Learning: An Approach to Addressing Patient Challenges in Academics

Jennifer Keiser, OD

COPE #27435-FV

Assessing the child with vision and learning problems is no small task. Your testing and recommendations can have a significant impact on their learning and educational opportunities, so what do you do? This discussion will address the details of visual information processing and related testing and introduce you to psycho-educational testing and its importance in patient management. It will provide you with a basic understanding of the big picture and will help you give much needed direction to your patient and their parents.

FR3

Scleral Contact Lenses-Indications and Complications

Melissa Barnett, OD

COPE #31489-CL

Scleral contact lenses are large-diameter rigid gas permeable lenses. These lenses can benefit patients with irregular corneas, disorders that affect the tear film, refractive error, and patients who are unable to wear other types of correction for vision. This course will review scleral contact lens indications, fitting, and complications.

FR4

Transient Visual Obscurations

Bradley Katz, MD

COPE PENDING

Everything you ever wanted to know about amaurosis fugax, but were afraid to ask. In this lecture, Dr. Katz will present a systematic approach to the evaluation and management of patients who present with transient visual obscurations (TVOs). The most important causes of TVOs in older adults, thromboembolism due to carotid artery disease and cardiac valve disease will be discussed. The most common causes of TVOs in younger adults, migrane and patent forame ovale, will also be presented for discussion. At the end of the presentation, attendees will be able to initiate an appropriate evaluation and management plan for patients with TVOs.

FR5

Injections in Primary Eye Care

James Fanelli, OD

COPE #27754-SD

This course outlines the most common indications for injectable techniques used in primary eyecare, including IM, IV, SC, intradermal, subconjunctival, sub Tenon's, and retrobulbar injections.

FR6

Symposium on Anterior Segment and Visual Function Problems

J. Austin, M. Barnett, J. Keiser

COPE PENDING

In this symposium, several leading clinicians review some of the latest developments in the diagnosis and management of anterior segment disease and visual function topics. The course consists of several twenty-minute long talks by the participating panelists followed by a question and answer session in which the audience has the opportunity to present their questions to the panel of experts for their opinions.

FR7

Papillitis: Evaluation of the Unilateral Swollen Optic Nerve

Bradley Katz, MD

COPE PENDING

A swollen optic nerve can be a normal variant or a serious neuro-ophthalmic disease. In this lecture, Dr. Katz will present a systematic approach to the evaluation of patients with unilateral disc swelling. He will also discuss two of the most common causes of unilateral disc swelling, anterior ischemic optic neuropathy and optic neuritis. He will also specifically discuss the anomalous optic nerve and teach attendees how to quickly differentiate these benign conditions from other, more serious neuro-ophthalmic diseases. At the end of the lecture attendees will be able to differentiate an anomalous nerve from a diseased nerve and will be able to efficiently initiate an appropriate evaluation for patients with unilateral disc swelling.

Lunch in Exhibit Hall

FR8

The Top Ten Indications for Oral Medications in the Primary Eye Care Setting

James Fanelli, OD

COPE #27331-OP

This course examines the top indications for the use of oral medications in primary eye care, their prescription, and the management of the particular pathology in question.

FR9

Differentiating Corneal Stain: What it means or doesn’t?

Marc Bloomenstein, OD

COPE #31696-AS

Yes, this course is on staining the cornea. Every O.D. knows how to drop in some stain and then look. However, what are the clinical implications? Does staining occur more rapidly or less rapidly considering their ocular surface? Can we just lump all staining into a classification of disease? This course will break down myths, establish new criteria, and help the OD navigate through the staining ‘grid’ lock!

FR10

The Medical Optometry Practice

Walter Choate, OD

COPE PENDING

Most optometrists believe that a good part of their practice is treatment and management of ocular disease. The facts and statistics simply do not back that up, as only about 10 – 15 % of most practice revenue comes from optometric medicine. An overview of important equipment needs with ROI analysis is discussed, as well as proper facility design. An overview of billing and coding concepts, including important credentialing and regulatory issues is discussed. The course is most importantly intended to be a road map on how to develop a medical optometry practice. Setting the stage for medical care with the patient from the phone call, to check in, to the work up, the exam and finally the care plan is presented. Medical insurance management from precertification, to filing and tracking of claims is discussed. A detailed discussion is provided on how to properly differentiate vision and medical eye care to maximize care as well as profitability for the practice.

FR11

Friday PM and Monday AM Acute Care

James Fanelli, OD

COPE #28541-GO

This course examines a typical patient care day from the perspective of managing acute traumatic eye injuries and conditions. Cases are discussed that present to the office immediately (Friday cases) or that delay treatment for several days (Monday cases). Discussion of the management options are thoroughly discussed.

FR12

Off Label is Not Off Limits

Marc Bloomenstein, OD

COPE #30607-PH

This course will explore the prescribing options available to doctors when they use medications off label. Since the FDA approval process is long and arduous, medications may have secondary treatment opportunities.

FR13

Conquering The Steep Cornea

Melissa Barnett, OD

COPE #27054-CL

Overview of contact lenses for patients with keratoconus.