March 31st 2023
Though there is no current FDA-approved treatment, lotilaner ophthalmic solution, 0.25%, is the first drug designed to treat and target the underlying cause of Demodex blepharitis.
(CME Credit) Community Practice Connections™: Expert Approaches in Cataract Surgery – Managing Advances in Techniques and Technologies With an Updated Armamentarium
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(COPE Credit) Community Practice Connections™: Expert Approaches in Cataract Surgery – Managing Advances in Techniques and Technologies With an Updated Armamentarium
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(CME/CNE Credit) Expert Illustrations & Commentaries™: Envisioning New Therapies for Meibomian Gland Dysfunction-Associated DED
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(COPE Credit) Expert Illustrations & Commentaries™: Envisioning New Therapies for Meibomian Gland Dysfunction-Associated DED
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(COPE Credit) Patient, Provider, and Caregiver Connection™: Individualizing Care in Allergic Conjunctivitis – Understanding the Patient’s Perspective in Alleviating Disease Burden
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(CME Credit) Patient, Provider, and Caregiver Connection™: Individualizing Care in Allergic Conjunctivitis – Understanding the Patient’s Perspective in Alleviating Disease Burden
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Shared Perspectives in Managing Presbyopia – Understanding a New Paradigm for Optimizing Quality of Life
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Perfecting Co-Management of Glaucoma – Utilizing Development in the Spectrum of Treatment Options
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Community Practice Connections™: 2nd Annual Optometry Times™ EyeCon
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Expert Insights in Geographic Atrophy with Transformative Care on the Horizon – Understanding the Complement System as a Target for Treatment
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EnVision Summit
February 16–19, 2024
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Vance Thompson Vision
4 dates: Saturday, February 24, Friday, September 20, Friday, October 11, and Friday, October 25
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(CME/CNE Credit) Analyzing Novel Tear Stimulating Treatments for Special Populations in Dry Eye Disease
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(CME Credit) Community Practice Connection™: Paradigm Shifts in Presbyopia – Understanding Advances in Topical Treatment Innovations
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(CME/CNE Credit) Community Practice Connections™: Restoring the Surface Impact of Preservatives and Novel Formulations in First Line Treatments for Dry Eye Disease
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(COPE Credit) Analyzing Novel Tear Stimulating Treatments for Special Populations in Dry Eye Disease
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(COPE Credit) Community Practice Connections™: Restoring the Surface – Impact of Preservatives and Novel Formulations in First Line Treatments for Dry Eye Disease
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(CME Credit) Community Practice Connections™: Improving Management of MGD-Associated Dry Eye Disease—A Look to the Future of Treatment
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(COPE Credit) Community Practice Connections™: Improving Management of MGD-Associated Dry Eye Disease—A Look to the Future of Treatment
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18th Annual Controversies in Modern Eye Care
May 4, 2024
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(COPE Credit) Community Practice Connection™: Paradigm Shifts in Presbyopia – Understanding Advances in Topical Treatment Innovations
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(CME Credit) Learning About the Lid – Optimizing Recognition, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Demodex Blepharitis & Blepharoptosis
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(COPE Credit) Learning About the Lid – Optimizing Recognition, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Demodex Blepharitis & Blepharoptosis
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2nd Annual IKA Keratoconus Symposium: Front to Back and Everything in Between
May 18-19, 2024
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(CME Credit) Virtual Case Studies™ in Cataract Surgery: Selecting Surgical Techniques and Preventing Intra-Operative Complications
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Neurotrophic Keratitis Management: How Early Intervention Can Make a Difference
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(COPE Credit) Clinical Crossroads: Navigating Neurotrophic Keratitis – The Importance of Avoiding Pitfalls and Ensuring Early Intervention
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(CME Credit) Clinical Crossroads: Navigating Neurotrophic Keratitis – The Importance of Avoiding Pitfalls and Ensuring Early Intervention
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1st Annual IKA Keratoconus Symposium: Front to Back and Everything In Between
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17th Annual Controversies in Modern Eye Care
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How to treat patients with delusional parasitosis
November 14th 2017Delusional parasitosis or Ekbom’s syndrome is a patient’s mistaken belief that he is infested by parasites such as mites, lice, fleas, spiders, worms, bacteria, or other organisms. Scott Schachter, OD, discusses the challenges ODs face when working with these patients.
Treating blepharitis in the pediatric population
June 1st 2017When your pediatric patient presents with irritated, itchy eyelids with reddened lid margins, diagnosing blepharitis may be the easy part of patient care. Implementing a treatment regimen for patients who are infants, toddlers, or school-age children, requires optometrists to use not only their knowledge but their clinical art of practice as well.
Understanding and defining MGD
August 3rd 2016The Tear Film and Ocular Surface Society’s Meibomian Gland Workshop was tasked to sort through the literature to determine proper terminology of conditions affecting the lid margin. Review the terminology, gland anatomy, gland expression classifications, and treatment strategies.
5 ways to go beyond baby shampoo for lid hygiene
June 24th 2016Certainly, one would assume that nothing could be safer than a product designed for use with children. Television commercials with smiling, happy babies covered in frothy bubbles imply the product is harmless. Ubiquitous marketing alone creates a subconscious sense of safety for both doctor and patient.
How MGD can work for your practice
May 3rd 2016Dry eye represents a major opportunity with more than 25 million people suffering from the condition in the U.S.,1 and meibomian gland dysfunction (MGD) is thought to be the most common cause of dry eye.2 During a session at SECO, Walt Whitley, OD, MBA, FAAO, shared his tips for making the most of this opportunity in your practice.
What’s all the craze about demodex?
March 23rd 2016While many eyecare practitioners (ECPs) are just now learning about Demodex infestation of the eyelids and adnexa, the fact is that this condition has been around for as long as mankind. The entomologists Johannsen and Riley from Cornell University first described the species in detail anatomically as early as 1915, but it wasn’t until the 1960s that clinical reports of demodex-related blepharitis began to emerge in the literature.
Why you’re missing the dry eye right in front of you
December 9th 2015A common barrier to many practitioners is the concern that their practice does not have the patient foundation to make investment in the services economically profitable. I assure you that OSD management will profit the patient in many ways that includes clearer, more comfortable vision, enhancing their productivity and overall wellbeing.
The connection between dry eye and eyelashes
September 30th 2015While there are a myriad of associated concerns due to ocular surface inflammation, a few eyelash-related complications of note are trichiasis, acquired distachiasis, local madarosis, and poliosis. Each of these is in some way connected to dry eye.