Week 3 COVID-19 office closure update

Magdalena Stec, OD, FAAO; Noreen Shaikh, OD, FAAO; Huizi Kelly Yin, OD, FAAO; and Brenda Bohnsack, MD, PhD, detail their AAOpt 2026 session in Anaheim, California.

Kwaku Osei, OD, PhD, FAAO, discussed patient-reported outcomes with a senofilcon C (Johnson & Johnson; Acuvue Vita), reusable lens, with the majority of wearers rating comfort, vision, and handling favorably.

Andrew Pucker, OD, PhD, FAAO, FSLS, FBCLA, discussed how oculomics research presented at AAOpt 2026 could eventually support point-of-care diagnosis and referral decisions.

Lloyd Williams, MD, PhD, discusses rising cataract blindness and low-cost surgery in conflict zones for World Sight Day.

A handful of eye care providers spoke on the factors that have led to a lack of eye care access for World Sight Day.

Jacob Lang, OD, FAAO, details his AAOPt 2026 poster presentation "Rapid and Durable Redness Relief with a Novel Brimonidine Tartrate Ophthalmic Solution Containing Hyaluronic Acid."

Amber Carissa "A.C." Flynn details a case in her AAOpt 2026 poster that demonstrates successful ocular surface optimization for a patient with several eye conditions.

Kevin Chan, OD, MS, FAAO, FBCLA, IACMM, stated in his Rapid Fire lecture that high myopes shouldn't be counted out of orthokeratology treatment.