Join Woo U and earn up to 4 hours of COPE approved CE in the oral pharmaceutical category.

Speakers: Dr. Walt Whitley and Dr. Greg Caldwell

Moderator: Dr. Jen Stewart

This event is COPE approved for 4 hours of CE credit.

Over 300 attended our event and we received amazing feedback!

Feedback from anonymous survey:

• Great first lecture! Looking forward to hearing from Dr. Caldwell.

• Excellent course material and speakers.

• WOW what a great talk!!! Thanks

• The lectures were very clear and informative. Thank you!

• Very entertaining lectures.

• Informative, speakers stayed on topic and answered questions.

8:00AM Pacific Time

The Good, The Bad and The Orals presented by Dr. Walt Whitley

There is a lack of understanding among optometrists regarding how and when to use oral antibiotics to combat ocular conditions. There is a gap in understanding among optometrists regarding the diagnosis of various forms of herpetic eye disease and the proper dosing of oral antiviral medications for each entity. There is also a gap in understanding of optometrists regarding the indications, contraindications, dosing, and adverse effects of orally applied antibiotics and antiviral medications. This needs assessment was derived through lectures, conversations, and surveys from previous meetings. This program has been designed based upon this information and attempts to bridge these educational gaps.

COPE ID: 87469-PH | Category: Pharmacology

10:00AM Pacific Time

Oral Antibiotics and Antivirals in Eye Care presented by Dr. Greg Caldwell

Oral medications play an integral role in the treatment and management of ocular disease. Additionally, the side effects of many common systemic medications can have ocular side effects. Through case examples, this course will review the impact oral medications have on our patients and practice of optometry.

COPE ID: 86866-PH | Category: Pharmacology

An hour and a fifteen discussion of newer technology used for diagnosis and treatment in dry eye disease that details the indications for utilization, outcomes and the potential for return on investment. The equipment will include diagnostic testing, vectored thermal pulsation, meibography, microblephroexfoliation and Intense Pulse Light.

Over 900 attended our event and we received amazing feedback!

Feedback from anonymous survey:

• Best dry eye seminar I’ve attended since Art Epstein died. Their interactive format was WONDERFUL, far better than just a speaker. I loved this session.

• Liked the format with the 2 OD’s comparing & sharing.

• It is good to know that it doesn't take alot of capital investment to start DE practice and IPL pricing and sessions.

• I like the casual atmosphere. Ocusoft and meibomian gland expressions works well.

• A very worthwhile program to have attended.

• This lecture was a great way to review information as well as learn new material.

• Great presentation! I really liked the format of having two different perspectives join and share their thoughts on dry eye treatment.

• Love how practical the lectures was with prices and times for IPL

Speakers: Doug Devries, OD and Samantha Hornberger, OD

Moderator: Dr. Ariel Cerenzie

COPE ID: 87614-TD

Category: Trt/Mngmnt Ocular Disease

This event is COPE approved for 1 hour of CE credit.

Thank you to Lumenis for exhibiting at this event.

This course is designed to review the theories in fitting contact lenses on patients with keratoconus. The most applicable candidates for each lens design will be reviewed, along with clinical guidelines and pearls. Finally, a portion of this course will cover advanced lens designs and troubleshooting.

Nearly a thousand people attended our event, and the feedback we received was absolutely fantastic!

Feedback from anonymous survey:

• Great presentation. I picked up a few pearls to help me take care of my patients.

• I was particularly pleased to hear the "nuts and bolts" presentation of GP lens fitting. As a retired "GP guy", I found that sclerals can be life-changing, but are not for every irregular cornea patient.)

• Her presentation was well structured and she is an engaging speaker.

• Good program, great coverage of different facets of keratoconus.

• Dr. Messer is an excellent speaker. Thank you for all of your hard work in putting these webinars together. Much appreciated!

• Dr. Messer is a wonderful lecturer. She presents this complicated information in such a simplified, easy to remember way.

• I really enjoyed this informative lecture which assisted me to see whether I am keeping abreast of CL options available and when to choose which type of CL to consider on different pt. types.

Speaker: Brooke Messer, OD

Moderator: Dr. Ariel Cerenzie

COPE ID: 87251-CL

Category: Contact Lenses

Thanks you to Bausch and Lomb for exhibiting at this event.

This event is COPE approved for 1 hour of CE credit.

We all know that good habits help keep us healthy: washing our face, brushing our teeth. What about developing healthy eye habits? We will discuss how to identify OSD/DED and then discuss why daily eye hygiene is important for everyone.

Almost 900 attended our event and we received amazing feedback!

Feedback from anonymous survey:

• Wonderful ded care for me to help my pts. Thanks again Woo U and Dr Woo. Thank you!

• Thank you for all of this great CE at a time when I can actually do it! Great lecture, thank you!

• This CE was awesome! Dr. Koetting explains things so clearly, very understandable and rememberable.

• I always enjoy Dr Koetting’s lecture especially her examples of how she does her patient education. It makes it easy to apply it in office.

• Definitely in the top 3 lectures! Love how practical it was with specific products! Thanks very much!

• Nice lecture on things we need when that patient asks tough questions thank you!

• Very pleasant well covered topic, practical info w/lots of pearls, product recomendations, logical practical clinical.

• Very usable information that can be used on a daily basis./ I'd like to hear more from her./Makeup would be a good lecture.

Speaker: Dr. Cecelia Koetting

Moderator: Dr. Elise Kramer

COPE ID: 83982-TD

Category: Trt/Mngmnt Ocular Disease

Thank you to Contamac for exhibiting at this event.

This event is COPE approved for 1 hour of CE credit.

As the population ages, the prevalence of ocular disease increases. Today's busy clinicians are looking for effective and efficient diagnostic methods. Visual fields, retinal photography, and even conventional optical coherence tomography (OCT) are useful but often detect disease well into the disease state. Technologies such as electroretinography, dark adaptation and OCT angiography are often able to diagnose ocular disease much earlier in the disease state spectrum and are on the cusp of becoming mainstream. This course will highlight the value of these imaging modalities in both the early detection and management of various diseases.

Over 1200 attended our event and we received amazing feedback!

Feedback from anonymous survey:

• What a great explanation of WHY we should be excited about these "exotic" tests!

• Great education on how to read ERGs among everything else.

• Excellent overview of clinical applications for GLC, AMD and DR!

• Great presenter! Thank you for great information and education.

• Great info. Love to see how the new tech can help with patient care.

• Great coverage of different types of technologies for diagnosis of different retinal diseases makes you think about the aging population.

• This doctor is so knowledgeable. Wow Very good material!

• Great speaker. Appreciate his willingness to answer questions candidly. Thank you!

Speaker: Michael Cymbor, OD

Moderator: Dr. Jen Stewart

COPE ID: 85524-TD

Category: Trt/Mngmnt Ocular Disease

Thank you to Visionix for exhibiting at this event.

This event is COPE approved for 1 hour of CE credit.

Learn from three different doctors in three different clinical settings on how they integrate presbyopia technologies into practice. Each doctor will discuss staff education, patient education, and tips for successful integration.

Over 900 attended our event and we received amazing feedback!

Feedback from anonymous survey:

• Great panel of speakers!

• Well presented up to date trove of information.

• Dr Mila explaination of all mechanisms was so easy to follow - I feel well educated.

• Excellently done. Good information.

• Like the Q&A format.

Speakers: Dr. Mile Brujic, Dr. Doug Devries, and Dr. Maria Sampalis

Moderator: Dr. Elise Kramer

COPE ID: 87250-PH

Category: Pharmacology

This event is COPE approved for 1 hour of CE credit.

Thank you to Lenz Therapeutics for exhibiting at this event.

This lecture will explore the multiple mechanisms of action of intense pulsed light and how these mechanisms specifically address several of the underlying causes of dry eye including meibomian gland dysfunction, blepharitis, and ocular rosacea.

Over 700 attended our event and we received amazing feedback!

Feedback from anonymous survey:

• Thank you for this in depth discussion of a technology that wasn't available 11yrs ago when I graduated OD school!

• I love learning about lasers and skin and refer patients for ipl

• An exquisitely formatted and delivered presentation.

• Excellent, expert overview of IPL. Very informative!

• Definitely in the top 5 WooU lectures!

• Great info - appreciated learning not only the how to do it, but theories on WHY it works.

• Very thorough and practical information and pearls on IPL.

• Great lecture. One of the more informative ones on IPL that I’ve attended.

• Well covered, knowledgeable, needs several replays to absorb too much info for 1 hour presentation! Juicy, w/ many pearls! Thank you all!

Speaker: Cory Lappin, OD

Moderator: Dr. Jennifer Stewart

COPE ID: 86865-TD

Category: Trt/Mngmnt Ocular Disease

This event is COPE approved for 1 hour of CE credit.

Thank you to Lumenis for exhibiting at this event.

Glaucoma is traditionally managed with topical application of pharmaceutical drops to lower IOP. Nearly 50% of patients require multiple topical medications to control their intraocular pressure which can lead to ocular surface disease, compliance issues, and a decline in quality of life ultimately all leading to progression of the disease. This course will explore alternative options to reduce the burden of topical glaucoma medications for your patients. This will include novel glaucoma drug delivery, the role of minimally invasive glaucoma surgery, and new formulations of topical glaucoma medications.

Almost 1300 attended our event and we received amazing feedback!

Feedback from anonymous survey:

• Dr. Schweitzer always provides realistic tips and real-life patient examples. Always enjoy any CE with him as the speaker.

• Excellent topic and speaker, Woo U is keeping me up to date more than ever in the past 30 years.

• Love to hear Dr Schweitzer, he is very knowledgeable and easy to listen to! Super Awesome lecture on glaucoma.

• Thank you for sharing very informative and interesting information about how to make glaucoma patients more comfortable and compliant with their meds.

• Thank you for the informative lecture on how to reduce OSD in GLC pts.

• Love this speaker, as his presentations are always very practical and applicable. Not so over the top.

• Fantastic lecturer, speaker was very clear and thorough. Speaker was very knowledgeable. Always a pleasure to listen on Dr. Schweitzer's lectures.

• Great subject and some very interesting treatment and ideas.

Speaker: Justin Schweitzer, OD

Date: Thursday, October 19, 2023

Moderator: Dr. Ariel Cerenzie

COPE ID: 85638-GL

Category: Glaucoma

Thank you to Thea for exhibiting at this event.

This event is COPE approved for 1 hour of CE credit.

Do soft lenses play a role in managing keratoconus patients? Yes, a very important one. Discover how soft keratoconus lenses work, and how to identify good patient candidates. Real case reports are presented utilizing soft keratoconus lens designs.

Over 1100 attended our event and we received amazing feedback!

Feedback from anonymous survey:

• Great lecture. Dr. Resnick is the best.

• Thank you for a very informative presentation about how soft contact lenses are used effectively for Keratoconus.

• Thank you for the interesting lecture on a topic not often covered.

• Thank you, good subject material. Have always been hesitant to try soft CLs for keratoconic patients. I will be trying this in the future.

• I appreciated Dr. Resnick's clinical pearls and encouragement in showing us that soft lenses may have a place in our practice for the keratonic patient.

• Very interesting topic and information

• Excellent presentation. I would like to hear Dr. Resnick again.

Speaker: Susan Resnick, OD

Moderator: Dr. Ariel Cerenzie

COPE ID: 87306-CL

Category: Contact Lenses

Thanks you to Bausch and Lomb for exhibiting at this event.

This event is COPE approved for 1 hour of CE credit.

Learn how to successfully co-manage TED patients with an oculoplastic surgeon. Attendees will learn how to manage mild TED, and what current treatments are for moderate and severe TED, including surgical management and radiotherapy.

Almost 1200 attended our event and we received amazing feedback!

Feedback from anonymous survey:

• OMG How did you get Dr Douglas?? He is THE GUY for TED in California!!!!!

• Thank you! Very knowledgeable lecturer and easy to follow with very current information.

• Thank you for providing this CE. This speaker was great for providing the information about the new monoclonal treatment as well as surgeries.

• Great presentation , he kept the talk interesting and informative.

• This was an awesome presentation. Best CE in a long time. Speaker is excellent.

• Your Continuing Education is always so informative. Every time I participate in one, I feel my knowledge base has increased!That's with with any subject that I have participated with Woo University. Thank you for these opportunities.

• Fantastic talk. Hats off to the speaker for not only covering what is becoming main stream treatment, but also the unique approaches he uses to customize treatment for his patients.

• Dr. Douglas' presentation extremely well done, logically presented. Wish I could watch again.

Speaker: Raymond Douglas, MD, PhD

Moderator: Dr. Elise Kramer

COPE ID: 87147-SD

Category: Systemic/Ocular Disease

This event is COPE approved for 1 hour of CE credit.

Thank you to Horizon Therapeutics for providing an unrestricted educational grant to support this event.

This course will answer the age old question, Can I get a generic Not all drops are created the same and thus each needs to be considered. This course will help to create a decision tree for the clinician.

Over 1100 attended our event and we received amazing feedback!

Feedback from anonymous survey:

• Dr. Bloomenstein made the subject so interesting!

• Love Dr. Bloomstein! He was very engaging and made the topic fun.

• Dr. Bloomenstein was great. Please have him back to lecture again!

• Excellent presenter - very knowledgeable & funny!

• Phenomenal presentation. Please bring Dr. Marc Bloomenstein back for a Part 2 on Generic vs. Brand name. Love to hear more from Dr. Bloomenstein!

• Clinically-relevant and interesting topic. I appreciate the recommendations when generic can be used instead of brand name. I found that the speaker was knowledgeable, however, in the current climate, cost of medication is a huge factor to many pts. As eyecare practitioners, we can make strong recommendations.

• He was outstanding in delivery with use of humor!

Speaker: Marc Bloomenstein, OD

Moderator: Dr. Ariel Cerenzie

COPE ID: 87252-PH

Category: Pharmacology

Thank you to Thea for exhibiting at this event.

This event is COPE approved for 1 hour of CE credit.

This lecture will outline and describe the current understanding of thyroid eye disease (TED) and its interrelation with Graves’ Disease. It will describe incidence, risk factors, and associated systemic signs, symptoms, and pathophysiology including Rundle’s curve. We will discuss treatment options for TED including the recent FDA approval of Teprotumumab, its clinical trials, study endpoints, and adverse reactions. Masquerading ocular findings that may be early signs of TED will be described as well as lab testing that can help with the early detection of TED will be discussed. Doctors have a knowledge need for this practice gap which means having the knowledge of how to detect, diagnose, and treat TED in an integrated, multidisciplinary method.

Almost 1000 attended our event and we received amazing feedback!

Feedback from anonymous survey:

• WOW FANTASTIC HIGH YIELD LECTURE w/ clinical cases, pathophysiology, detailed !!

• Great speaker and this series has helped educate me on this condition so i hopefully will be more aware and able to help my patients faster.

• This was the best talk I have ever heard on this topic.

• Appreciated the distinct talk about antibodies rather than just thyroid dx.

• I learned about ordering the TSI Thyroid Stimulating Immunoglobulin serum test. Tepezza is an infusion. Thank you for an interesting lecture.

• Pearls in TED will help pt care better. Thank you Dr Lang and Dr Woo.

• Learned a lot about the new things surrounding TED!

• Outstanding especially with use of interaction!

Speaker: Jacob Lang, OD

Moderator: Dr. Jennifer Stewart

COPE ID: 80761-SD

Category: Systemic/Ocular Disease

This event is COPE approved for 1 hour of CE credit.

Thank you to Horizon Therapeutics for providing an unrestricted educational grant to support this event.

This course will discuss three common miotics – pilocarpine, carbachol, and aceclidine. We will review the different mechanisms of action for all three miotics. We will discuss how each is different. Studies are discussed. Safety profiles are reviewed in detail.

Almost 900 attended our event and we received amazing feedback!

Feedback from anonymous survey:

• Good overview. Speaker very pleasant to listen to..personable and credible.

• Dr. Ng has a great way of breaking down concepts. I loved his CE class and would attend his next one.

• Dr Ng is so engaging; loved him as a professor!

• Fantastic lecture with pathophysiology, evidenced based.

• Thank you for the very informative lecture. You presented the miotics and studies very clearly.

• Thank you for such a clear and complete and wholly unbiased review of these new meds!

• Great comparisons of all the miotic drops coming out! Helped me determine which drops I want to be on the lookout for.

• Lecture helps make you think about options !!

• Dr. Ng did an excellent job creating a data-driven presentation with clinical relevance.

Speaker: Jason Ng, O.D.

Moderator: Dr. Jennifer Stewart

COPE ID: 86846-PH

Category: Pharmacology

This event is COPE approved for 1 hour of CE credit.

Thank you to Lenz Therapeutics for exhibiting at this event.

This course will be an overview of glaucoma treatment and management. This course will review and contrast management ideas such as topical hypotensives versus surgical techniques. The course will address topical hypotensives from a pharmacological standpoint. The course will delve into updated management strategies available to patients such as sustained release systems, implants, and SLT. The course will review case studies that will showcase the benefits of each treatment option.

Almost 1200 attended our event and we received amazing feedback!

Feedback from anonymous survey:

• Dr. Thimons is high level expert on glaucoma. Thank you!

• Dr .Thimons has superb mastery of all aspects of glaucoma.

• Good review of prostaglandins and their usefulness vs. other medications in glaucoma management.

• I really appreciate the topic, but also the speaker. It was very informative and evidence based.

• Excellent combo of pathophysiology, studies references and landmark study reviews. Plus practical advice. Thank you!

• Thank you for breaking down so much glaucoma information in an understandable manner. Great presentation!

• One of the best CE I have attended!

• Great lecture. Amazing how knowledgeable Dr thimons is and how easy it is to listen to him present information.

• Speaker was amazing!! Probably the best WooU Event I've attended.

• Excellent presentation; all key points, just the right amount of info after seeing patinets!

• For 25 years or longer, presentations by Dr. Thimmons have been highlights of Optometric Continuing Education. His combination of clinical knowledge, and conversancy with the literature, i.e. the scince, are unmatched.

Speaker: Jim Thimons, OD

Moderator: Dr. Jennifer Stewart

COPE ID: 86864-GL

COPE Category: Glaucoma

Thank you to Thea for exhibiting at this event.

This event is undergoing COPE approval for 1 hour of CE credit.

Join Woo U for this two-hour course on Thyroid Eye Disease. This course unravels and illustrates the close association between the eye and thyroid dysfunction. Clinical features, laboratory testing, clinical examination, and therapeutic options will be reviewed. The ocular manifestations and management of this condition will be discussed.

Over 1000 attended our event and we received amazing feedback!

Feedback from anonymous:

• Wow! such great education on All things thyroid.

• Brilliant! Always enjoy Dr Caldwell's presentations.

• Absolute mastery of this subject. Excellent speaker!

• Learned a lot about TED and will now be on guard to watch for it.

• Great presentation and clearly identified clinical significance.

• Wow, speaker was very effective and concise!

• Great lecture, applicable, pulled in functional health tx, treating whole patient inflammation and targeting with Tempezza.

• I ended up wishing that he would speak longer rather than being glad the presentation was over.

Speaker: Gregory Caldwell, OD

Moderator: Dr. Jennifer Stewart

COPE ID: 82803-SD

Category: Systemic/Ocular Disease

This event is COPE approved for 2 hours of CE credit.

Thank you to Horizon Therapeutics for providing an unrestricted educational grant to support this event.

This course will cover the variety of contact lens options for correction of vision in keratoconus patients. It will go through the decision-making process between the various lenses, what factors influence those choices, and the basics on how to achieve success with each modality in a case-based format.

Over 900 attended our event and we received amazing feedback!

Feedback from anonymous survey:

• Wow, what a great run down on the causes of KC.

• Very well done lecture which helped to refresh my knowledge of keratoconus and the new diagnosis and tx protocols.

• Superb overview! Dr Jedlicka such a great presenter.

• Dr. Jedlicka is extremely well versed and concise. Great speaker!

• Excellent education on keratoconus diagnosis and treatments, look forward to the rest of the series.

• Wonderful review and highlight of some new tips for KC patients.

• Thank you for explaining the many treatment options for for Keratoconus.

• Thank you so much for this webinar! I might want to invest in a tomographer now!

• Excellent I have so many patients with cups of -8 so will use this info now.

Speaker: Jason Jedlicka, OD

Moderator: Dr. Ariel Cerenzie

COPE ID: 86612-TD

Category: Trt/Mngmnt Ocular Disease

This event is also supported by an unrestricted medical grant from Glaukos.

This event is COPE approved for 1 hour of CE credit.

This course will refresh our knowledge base of Demodex blepharitis. Thus, this course will provide essential information for eye care professionals on how to identify and confidently evaluate signs of Demodex blepharitis and distinguish them from other infectious and non-infectious signs, discharge, lash debris and diseases. Clinical burden and risk factors for the disease will be discussed and the latest scientific evidence on current management and emerging treatments for Demodex blepharitis will be explored.

Over 1000 attended our event and we received amazing feedback!

Feedback from anonymous survey:

• Dr. Karpecki is great! Many relevant pearls to help improve my patient care.

• Dr. Karpecki always presents in a simplified easy to understand way.

• This was a VERY helpful and informative presentation that made me realize I've probably missed this condition me frequently than I care to admit.

• Great news that new med is available, and so easy to use.

• Dr. Karpecki has always been the keynote speaker i look for.

• Informative and clinically-relevant lecture with evidence-based data.

• Dr. Karpecki always presents in a simplified easy to understand way.

Speaker: Dr. Paul Karpecki

Moderator: Dr. Ariel Cerenzie

COPE ID: 85637-TD

Category: Trt/Mngmnt Ocular Disease

Thanks you to Tarsus for providing an unrestricted educational grant to support this event.

This event is COPE approved for 1 hour of CE credit.

This course aims to educate practitioners how to increase compliance with lid hygiene in their patients by offering revenue products in their office and/or ensuring patients have access to recommended products once they leave the office. We will also discuss the importance of eyelid health for contact lens patients and present studies showing discomfort as the leader of contact lens dropout. By maintaining eyelid health, contact lens patients can remain happy and healthy.

Over 1300 attended our event and we received amazing feedback!

Feedback from anonymous survey:

• Great education on lid hygiene and treatment.

• Dr. Kramer is very knowledgeable and presents the information very well.

• Liked dental hygiene analogy and example of your patient education/treatment “checklist” given.

• Wonderful talk about something many of us don’t focus enough on!!

• Loved how Dr. Kramer incorporated all aspects of lid care from equipments, to personal hygiene, to products!

• Very informative learned several things about lid hygiene.

• It was a great lecture. Easy to follow.

• Dr. Kramer was outstanding. She has a great speaking voice. My favorite of any of the many Woo U Drs.

Speaker: Elise Kramer, OD

Moderator: Dr. Jennifer Stewart

COPE ID: 86282-TD

Category: Trt/Mngmnt Ocular Disease

This event is COPE approved for 1 hour of CE credit.

Intense Pulsed Light or (IPL) is technology that has been utilized for years in the dermatological space. The role IPL plays in eye care opens a whole new realm of possibilities in how to treat patients that suffer with MGD, dry eye disease and opens new doors to treat achieve aesthetic results.

Over 1000 attended our event and we received amazing feedback!

Feedback from anonymous survey:

• Learned a lot of a IPL which i was unfamiliar with. Great lecture!

• Excellent information on new technology I am considering for my practice.

• Thank you. Very well worth the time and cost.

• Great lecture - clear presentation & helpful clinical pearls.

• New area for me …. Was very interesting and helpful!!!

• Loved how Dr. McGee showed all the different types of ways to use IPL in a practice.

Speaker: Selina McGee, OD

Moderator: Dr. Jennifer Stewart

COPE ID: 86611-TD

Category: Trt/Mngmnt Ocular Disease

Thank you to Lumenis for exhibiting at the event.

This event is COPE approved for 1 hour of CE credit.

This course guides eye care professionals through current and new technologies used to diagnose and manage glaucoma patients. Discover some of the most innovative pieces of equipment the industry has to offer and how it can help improve your patient and practice outcomes.

Over 1000 attended our event and we received amazing feedback!

Feedback from anonymous survey:

• Great analysis of OCT In glaucoma.

• Great Speaker -- helps me understand topic much better.

• Awesome presentation and breakdown of recognizing glaucoma using oct.

• Amazing lecture. Wow so helpful.

• Easy to understand CE, excellent speaker.

• Brilliant overview! Thank you!

• Dr. Fanelli is awesome!

• This may have been the best glaucoma CE I've been to. Thank you!

• Thank you for giving great explanations about which tests are more effective on which patients. I appreciated having explanations that were easy to understand.

• Such a great clear thoughtful speaker and teacher.

• Best WooU CE I've been to--informative and interesting.

Speaker: James L. Fanelli, OD

Moderator: Dr. Jennifer Stewart

COPE ID: 85961-GL

Category: Glaucoma

This event is COPE approved for 1 hour of CE credit.

Thank you to Olleyes and Advancing Eyecare for exhibiting at this event.

Keratoconus patients often go through a roller coaster of emotions when presented with their initial diagnosis. It is important for the eye care professional to understand the mindset of the keratoconus patient, as well as the commonly asked questions. This course will help doctors and staff prepare for these special patients.

Over 900 attended our event and we received amazing feedback!

Feedback from anonymous survey:

• This was a very interesting lecture and was very informative! Made me think differently about the patient perspective.

• Thank you for bringing up the important aspects of treating each patient as a person and not just the disease of kerataconus.

• Great observations on this special population!

• Thank you for sharing your insights and experiences with keratoconus. I think I have more empathy towards people with keratoconus now.

• This is a discussion that should be required for all providers. Great pearls for how to take better care of the patient and not just the eyeballs.

• Good information that I didn’t even think of.

• Phenomenal speakers, excellent information. I would love to hear the speakers again.

• All the Dr’s really spoke well to remind us as Dr’s, no matter how busy, empathy is key, though sometimes with time constraints difficult to accomplish. Thx!

Speaker: Christine Sindt, OD

Moderator: Dr. Ariel Cerenzie

COPE ID: 86522-PB

Category: Public Health

With new innovations in treatment for presbyopia come available both surgically and topically, we revisit an old topic. How do we really define presbyopia and how do these new options fit in with our tried and true? And how do we discuss these with our patients?

Almost 900 attended our event and we received amazing feedback!

Feedback from anonymous survey:

• I will attend any of Dr. Koetting's lectures! She is always informative with practical tips.

• Great great lecture! Definitely helpful for our office.

• Thank ou for a great presentation on so many new options to help those with presbyopia.

• Fantastic overview! So hard to keep up with all the options - the specialty IOLs seem to come and go! Thank you!

• Thank you for telling us all about the presbyopia IOLS and presbyopia drops.

• Great discussion of presbyopic drop tx.

• Amazing how much presbyopic IOLs have advanced

• Enjoyed the run down on all the lens options available for presbyopic patients

• Thank you for telling us about the different kinds of presbyopia IOLS and presbyopia drops in the pipeline.

Speaker: Cecelia Koetting, O.D.

Moderator: Dr. Jennifer Stewart

COPE ID: 84553-GO

Category: General Optometry

This event is COPE approved for 1 hour of CE credit.

Thank you to Lenz Therapeutics for exhibiting at this event.

Optical Coherence Tomography OCT is a technology that is largely becoming standard of care for the diagnosis and management of both retinalmacular conditions as well as glaucoma. OCT-Angiography is a relatively new technology that allows new visualization of the vasculature of the back of the eye without an invasive injection. This interactive 1-hour presentation will introduce OCT-A, when it is applicable, and how to interpret the reports.

Over 1100 attended our event and we received amazing feedback!

Feedback from anonymous survey:

• Excellent education on how to read OCTA.

• Excellent speaker. Easy to listen to and learn from!

• Excellent speaker. Really enjoyed the info and case presentation.

• Thank you for your thorough explanations and for going at a pace where I could digest the information.

• Great explanation of how OCT A works.

• He is always an excellent speaker and I always learn so much from him!

• Dr. Lighthizer is very well spoken and clear in his explanations.

• Speaker was very knowledgeable on retinal problems and using OCT for early detection.

• Exciting how this technology will be useful for future Optometrists. I think we will find it very applicable to glaucoma, too, in the long run.

• Dr. Lighthizer is an excellent speaker I enjoyed his talk very much.

Speaker: Nathan Lighthizer, OD

Moderator: Craig Norman

COPE ID: 85523-GO

Category: General Optometry

Thank you to Visionix for exhibiting at this event.

This event is COPE approved for 1 hour of CE credit.

This course is a deep dive focusing on the eyelids for ocular surface disease success. Anatomy and pathophysiology of the eyelid including ptosis, meibomian gland dysfunction and Demodex blepharitis will highlighted. Digital device use and mask associated dry eye will be covered. This course will describe how compromises to the lids can have a cascading effect on the ocular surface.

Almost 700 attended our event and we received amazing feedback!

Feedback from anonymous survey:

• I immediately thought of a couple patients who I could help right now after having heard this CE. This was great!

• Thank you for the latest and greatest info to date!

• Thank you for the great introduction to new pharmaceuticals for dry eye disease.

• Thank you for presenting great information on new products and treatments for Meibomian gland disease, Demodex, and dry eye Meibomian gland disfunction, Demodex, and dry eye disease.

• Thank you for your knowledge in the topic. Thank you for the video!

• Dr. Barnett’s presentations are always extremely informative and very easy to understand.

• Excellent information on new exciting treatments,would look forward to a presentation once these medications are being used in the real world to see results.

Speaker: Melissa Barnett, O.D

COPE ID: 85457-TD

Category: Trt/Mngmnt Ocular Disease

This event is COPE approved for 1 hour of CE credit.

Thank you to Tarsus for providing an unrestricted educational grant to support this event.

This course will give insights about headaches and concussions from both a doctor and patient perspective. Dr Nanasy, who suffered a concussion over 3 years ago, recounts her own experiences and gives specific details with etiology, clinical evaluation, diagnosis, treatment of TBI, headaches and as it relates directly to the eye and visual system. Attendees will feel confident assessing headache and concussion patients in their practice.

Over 800 attended our event and we received amazing feedback!

Feedback from anonymous survey:

• I absolutely loved her CE!! Excellent!!

• Excellent ways to handle headache patients and head trauma.

• Engaging, pace easy to follow, exceptional speaker

• Amazing lecture. learned a lot about concussion treatments.

• Helpful tips for TBI patients

• Great speaker! Knows her stuff and explains it in a very understandable way.

• Excellent speaker! Thank you for such a succinct lecture on an intimidating topic.

• Phenomenal speaker and I love her energy and enthusiasm!!

• Very informative and a good review on trigenminal nerve system!

• This lecture made me feel more justified in prescribing prisms which I have done in the past.

Speaker: Amanda Nanasy, O.D.

This event is COPE approved for 1 hour of CE credit.

Thank you to Neurolens for exhibiting at this event.

With all the different contact lens material options available, it can be hard to keep up with the changes. This course aims to educate ECPs on the different options that exist, and the differences between materials. We will also discuss example cases and explore the patient's responses to different materials.

Almost 700 attended our event and we received amazing feedback!

Feedback from anonymous survey:

• Dr. Bennett is a legend! It was a pleasure to attend this lecture and listen to his wisdom once again!

• Thank you for a great presentation about multiple types of CL materials including great review of those from the past which I remember using.

• Dr Bennett was awesome as always!

• Thank you for the great review and update in contact lenses.

• This is very helpful for many of us who don’t have the opportunity to fit these more complex lenses. I do a lot of multifocals, torics, and custom soft so this really helps me.

Speaker: Dr. Ed Bennett

This event is COPE approved for 1 hour of CE credit.

Thank you to Contamac for exhibiting at this event.

After discussing specific binocular vision disorders, the audience will be presented with effective assessment tools to determine a proper prescription for the patient. Assessment tools of entrance skills, dynamic and static retinoscopy, along with phoropter testing, will be discussed.

Over 800 attended our event and we received amazing feedback!

Feedback from anonymous survey:

• Good overview of basic BV disorders.

• Fantastic presentation and I really appreciated that the slides the speaker was using to present matched the handout we were given! Makes it way easier for me to follow along, take notes, and refer back to my notes later!

• I liked the new info with Vinasat occlusion.

• Wonderful speaker! Informative, easy to understand, clinically relevant. Great speaker!

• Fantastic presentation, Montecalvo! I have used the 6exo Rule for 30 years - nice to hear it's still out there!

• Speaker very knowledgeable and presented new ideas I had not considered before listening.

• Never heard about binasal occlusion. That was interesting.

• Very helpful in managing binocular vision cases!

• Useful recommendations for correcting pts. with BV disorders/complaints.

Speaker: Brenda Montecalvo, O.D.

COPE ID: 82336-FV

Category: Functional Vision/Pediatrics

This event is COPE approved for 1 hour of CE credit.

Thank you to Neurolens for exhibiting at this event.

Higher order aberrations (HOA) make up about 85% of all aberrations in the eye. These HOA can cause difficulty seeing at night, glare, halos, starburst, double vision and overall blurring of vision. Patients with corneal issues, such as keratoconus can have a significant degradation of images with HOA’s and an irregular corneal surface. Understanding how best to manage these patients is important for clinicians in improving visual function.

Over 700 attended our event and we received amazing feedback!

Feedback from anonymous survey:

• Good education on all orders of aberrations.

• Thank you for improving my understanding of scleral contact lenses and what types might be better.

• A lot of useful info!

• This speaker did a nice job with a complex topic.

• Thank you for explaining things so clearly. You demistified a lot of things.

• Dr. Gelles made aberration a lot easier to understand. Thank you.

• What an excellent review of aberrations as well as discussion comparing technologies

• Thank you for improving my understanding of scleral contact lenses and what types might be better.

Speaker: John Gelles, O.D.

COPE ID: 85665-CL

Category: Contact Lenses

This event is undergoing COPE approval for 1 hour of CE credit.

Thank you to Ovitz for exhibiting at this event.

This course will present a variety of cases including the ocular manifestations of systemic disease, the ocular manifestations of drug toxicity and selected posterior segment diseases including diseases of the vitreomacular interface and diabetic macular edema. AAO Preferred Practice Guidelines and guidelines will be discussed. The course will emphasize the use of OCT in the diagnosis and management of these conditions. Current practice guidelines based on OCT will be heavily regarded.

Over 1200 attended our event and we received amazing feedback!

Feedback from anonymous survey:

• Dr. Rodman was AMAZING. She brought things up that I had forgotten and taught me things I didn't know.

• I love her style of lecturing!!

• Dr. Rodman has the best lectures! A truly talented lecturer!!

• Dr. Rodman is a brilliant presenter! Great case overviews today!

• I absolutely love and appreciate the quality of these OCT case studies. This is very much needed education! Please give us many more!!!!! Thank you!!!

• Learned a lot about how to approach my plaquenil patients.

• Loved the speaker. She explained things in such a great way and the cases were very interesting.

• Great lecture on oct and retinal conditions.

• I really benefited from the case histories. We need more of these type of classes.

• Lecturer is extremely knowledgeable and detailed in presentation!

• Very interesting information about macular telangiectasias.

• Case presentations are great because it applies to us seeing patients!

• Awesome presentation. Explained everything in such an easy to understand way. Thank u.

• Great breakdown on these cases. She dissected them and made them easy to analyze and understand.

Speaker: Julie Rodman, OD

COPE ID: 85169-TD

Category: Trt/Mngmnt Ocular Disease

Thank you to Visionix for exhibiting at this event.

This event is COPE approved for 1 hour of CE credit.

In part two of our Glaucoma Innovations series, Dr. Elizabeth Muckley will present “Glaucoma Grand Rounds.” This course will consist of unique patient encounters seen in our clinic where a particular type of glaucoma is a diagnosed. Critical thinking skills such as differential diagnosis, actual diagnosis, treatment, and management will be presented with audience participation. Once the audience makes the diagnosis, a detailed clinical review of the condition will be discussed.

Almost 1300 attended our event and we received amazing feedback!

Feedback from anonymous survey:

• Fantastic content. Great knowing specific goals for mild, moderate and severe glaucoma and how often to be doing VF on severity. Also, hyphema case very great review of treatment testing for sickle cell.

• Thank you for a super presentation on case studies of real patients. This was an excellent lecture.

• Best CE I have taken in a while. Very useful information. Lots of clinical pearls

• Possibly one of the best CEs I’ve been too. Very informative and engaging.

• Good review, I feel more confident to manage glaucoma cases. Thank you!

• Great coverage of various glaucoma scenarios!

• One of the best glaucoma lectures that I have attended, thank you!

• Case study presentation was excellent.

• Great coverage of various glaucoma scenarios!

• Good to be challenged with injuries and eyes with different diagnoses.

• Excellent lecture. Dr. Muckley was a very effective presenter and easy to follow. I hope she is able to present more lectures with Woo U in the future.

• Great job, great info. Good to review and relearn from an expert in the field!

Speaker: Dr. Elizabeth Muckley

COPE ID: 85441-GL

Category: Glaucoma

This event is COPE approved for 1 hour of CE credit.

Thank you to Allergan for exhibiting at this event.