January 2nd 2024
Chronic stress can create an imbalance in mental health and the gut microbiome, leading to inflammation and consequential effects on eye health.
Modern-izing Retina
September 4 - 5, 2024
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Medical Crossfire®: Considerations for the Use of Biosimilars in Retinal Disease - Are You Prepared for a New Paradigm? (CME Credit)
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Vance Thompson Vision - Fargo
September 20, 2024
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Medical Crossfire®: Considerations for the Use of Biosimilars in Retinal Disease - Are You Prepared for a New Paradigm? (COPE Credit)
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EyeCon 2024
September 27-28, 2024
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Vance Thompson Vision - Montana
October 18, 2024
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October 25, 2024
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Thursday, November 7, 2024 - Friday, November 8, 2024
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(CME) Community Practice Connections™: A Closer Look at Neurotrophic Keratitis—Ensuring Timely Diagnosis and Taking Early Action
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Community Practice Connections™: Mastering the Multidisciplinary Management of Glaucoma—Understanding Advances in the Spectrum of Treatment Innovation (CME/CNE Credit)
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Community Practice Connections™: Mastering the Multidisciplinary Management of Glaucoma—Understanding Advances in the Spectrum of Treatment Innovation (COPE Credit)
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(COPE) Community Practice Connections™: A Closer Look at Neurotrophic Keratitis—Ensuring Timely Diagnosis and Taking Early Action
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(CME) Stratifying the Spectrum of Care in Glaucoma Management – Advancing Treatment with a Vast Armamentarium
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(COPE) Community Practice Connections™: Optimizing Multidisciplinary Care for nAMD & DME – Expert Perspectives with New Dosing Strategies on the Horizon
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(CME) Community Practice Connections™: Dry Eye Disease and Novel Tear Stimulating Therapies – Optimizing Outcomes in Patient Sub-Types
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(CME) Community Practice Connections™: Advancing Management Strategies in Geographic Atrophy– Mapping Out the Continuum of Care in a New Era of Transformative Treatment
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(COPE) Community Practice Connections™: Advancing Management Strategies in Geographic Atrophy– Mapping Out the Continuum of Care in a New Era of Transformative Treatment
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(COPE) Community Practice Connections™: Dry Eye Disease and Novel Tear Stimulating Therapies – Optimizing Outcomes in Patient Sub-Types
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(COPE) Key Advances in Cataract Surgery – Applications for New Technologies in an Ever-Changing Landscape
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(CME) Key Advances in Cataract Surgery – Applications for New Technologies in an Ever-Changing Landscape
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(CME) Community Practice Connections™: Optimizing Multidisciplinary Care for nAMD & DME – Expert Perspectives with New Dosing Strategies on the Horizon
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Current, Relevant, Useful: Key Takeaways from the CRU Eye Symposium Community Practice Connections™: Current, Relevant, Useful: Key Takeaways from the CRU Eye Symposium (COPE Credit)
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Current, Relevant, Useful: Key Takeaways from the CRU Eye Symposium (CME Credit)
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Managing Ocular Toxicities in Patients With Cancer: Understanding ADCs and the ECP’s Role in Collaborative Management Therapy on the Horizon (CME Credit)
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Managing Ocular Toxicities in Patients With Cancer: Understanding ADCs and the ECP’s Role in Collaborative Management Therapy on the Horizon (COPE Credit)
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SimulatED™: Applying Advanced Treatment for nAMD & DME - Simulating New Strategies for Clinical Management
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Rapid Reviews in Retina™: Emerging Updates from Winter 2024 – Addressing the Wealth of New Data in Treatments for nAMD and DME (CME Track)
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Community Practice Connections™: Optimizing Outcomes in Glaucoma Management - Applying Evidence to Practice with a Multitude of Treatment Options (CME Track)
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Community Practice Connections™: Mastering the New Treatment Paradigm in Geographic Atrophy – From Detection to Intervention (CME Track)
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Community Practice Connections™: Optimizing Outcomes in Glaucoma Management - Applying Evidence to Practice with a Multitude of Treatment Options (COPE Track)
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Sunlight and its effect on eye health
April 18th 2017Avoiding sunlight entirely appears to be a misdirection. Melanoma is inversely related to latitude and inadequate acclimation (i.e., increased melanization and epidermal thickening), which carries the risk of both melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer-common in northern latitudes.
Insulin resistance is more important than you think
June 10th 2016In the city of Chicago, there’s a 95-year-old retired pathologist and professor with a wry smile on his face. More than 50 years ago, Joseph Kraft, MD, identified that many tinnitus patients were in fact pre-diabetic.1 Back then this was a leaner America, and far fewer citizens had diabetes. Of course, much has radically changed.
Why ODs should care about sugar
February 8th 2016Fifty years of dietary guidelines have emphasized “low fat” and “low cholesterol” eating, so manufacturers obliged by creating foods with increasing sugar and wheat/gluten content while promoting exercise and widespread use of statins to lower cholesterol. Yet Americans have become overweight, obese, and typically less healthy at an alarming rate. The newest 2015-2020 U.S. dietary guidelines, eighth edition, are attempting to address this issue by limiting “added sugar.”1
Ocular Nutrition Society to hold symposium in conjunction with Vison Expo East
March 4th 2014The Ocular Nutrition Society (ONS) has announced the schedule for its education symposium, to be held Sunday, March 30, 2014, at the Jacob Javits Conference Center in New York City, in conjunction with Vision Expo East.