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President's Message
The San Diego Specialty Contact Lens Symposium
by Lisa Weiss, O.D., F.A.A.O., F.C.O.V.D.
The San Diego County Optometric Society is excited to announce the launch of a new Continuing Education Experience for 2011. With the generous organization and planning help of Dr. Jerry Legerton, we are able to present the San Diego Specialty Contact Lens Symposium on February 11-13, 2011. The original idea behind the symposium is to give “real world” education on specialty contact lens topics to practitioners and staff.
The advances in diagnosis and treatment of eye disease have resulted in the limitation of curriculum in the schools and colleges of optometry and ophthalmology in the area of specialty contact lenses. A small number of cornea and contact lens residency trained practitioners emerge each year and a significant percentage return to faculty positions or are employed in industry. This leaves only a few doctors who have training in specialty lenses that are added to the practitioner base serving the general public. The objectives of the meeting are to increase the availability of specialty contact lens services for the public, expand the competency and capacity of the practitioner to offer specialty contact lens services and materials, increase the first fit success rate of practitioners prescribing specialty contact lenses, reduce professional chair time required to fit specialty lenses, and increase comfortable wear time, visual performance, and eye health of patients with specialty contact lenses. The seminar is designed to be presented in a “how to” format with hands on workshops designed to help you return to your practice with the ability to deliver a new level of care to your patients.
Topics will include how to: manage ocular surface disease with contact lenses, prescribe and manage hybrid lenses for astigmatism and keratoconus, prescribe and manage keratoconus, prescribe and manage semi-scleral and scleral lenses, prescribe and manage custom soft toric lenses and soft multifocal contact lenses, prescribe and manage corneal refractive therapy, and several other topics. The meeting will also incorporate industry sponsored “hand’s on” workshops where fitting of lenses will be discussed with real patients as examples.
The San Diego Specialty Contact Lens Symposium will be held at the Hilton Bayfront Hotel. More information and registration can be found on the website: sandiegoscls.org. We hope you will join us for this exciting new meeting experience.
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