(WK-05) Implementing Sports Vision into a Primary Care Optometric Practice
9:00 AM to Noon
Katherine Green, Amar Sayani, Yin Tea
This workshop serves to provide hands-on training in sports and performance vision. The course will cover basic to advanced topics pertaining to sports vision evaluations and vision therapy activities for performance enhancement, including considerations when evaluating the concussed athlete. After a brief overview, participants will rotate through two stations to receive hands-on experience with tests and techniques. One station will focus on providing a sports vision assessment. The second station covers treatment and therapy options to enhance sports vision performance.
Additional Fee Required: $150
(WK-06) Enhancing Patient Outcomes with GP Scleral Contact Lenses
9:00 AM to Noon
Stephen Byrnes, Ronald Watanabe
For the practitioner, a successfully fit GP scleral contact lens patient is rewarding both financially and emotionally. In this workshop the equipment and fitting strategies needed to accomplish this are reviewed. Through hands-on experience, attendees develop a skill set to efficiently fit scleral lenses. Four contemporary scleral lens designs are available for trial fitting. Attendees document clinical findings and design a scleral lens to achieve a successful fitting relationship to the cornea, limbus and conjunctiva/sclera. Trial lens parameters, clinical findings and required design changes are documented for review with the laboratory consultant. Common problems associated with scleral lenses are discussed.
Additional Fee Required: $150
(WK-07) Foreign Body Removal Workshop
10:00 AM to Noon
Walter Potaznick, Irwin Shwom, James Mertz
A new medium of agarose, sand, iron filings and glitter are presented in mannequins mounted in the slit lamp. Multiple methods of ocular patching is presented. This workshop provides hands-on experience to safely remove non-penetrating to ocular foreign bodies and ocular patching.
Additional Fee Required: $100
(WK-08) Corneal and Scleral GP Multifocal Fitting Workshop
1:30 to 3:30 PM
Susan Gromacki, Daniel Fuller
GP multifocal contact lenses provide our presbyopic patients with excellent vision. However, the learning curve can be steep for both practitioner and patient. That especially includes combining the challenge of scleral contact lens fitting with presbyopia. This workshop will provide fitting pearls from experienced practitioners and allow the participant to obtain hands-on experience in fitting these specialty contact lenses.
Additional Fee Required: $100
(WK-09) Everything You Wanted to Know About Punctal Occlusion
1:30 to 3:30 PM
Walter Potaznick, Irwin Shwom
Punctal Plugs are a key adjunctive therapy in the relief of dry eye. This workshop trains each practitioner to insert diagnostic collagen and semi-permanent plugs. New as well as conventional plug designs are available for hands-on use. Each practitioner hones their chair-side skills in the application of these devices.
Additional Fee Required: $100
(WK-10) Funduscopy and 3-Mirror Peripheral Retinal Evaluation
3:30 to 5:30 PM
Edeline Lu, Tina Zheng, Benedicte Gonzalez
This workshop provides hands-on practice of evaluation of the posterior pole using non-contact fundus lenses and evaluation of peripheral retina using 3-mirror goniolenses as well as non-contact fundus lenses.
Additional Fee Required: $100