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PCON sponsors AAO courses on health care delivery, biologics
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Primary Care Optometry News will co-sponsor two courses at the American Academy of Optometry annual meeting in San Antonio.
The plenary session will focus on the future of health care delivery. Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, PhD, MSc, vice provost for global initiatives at the University of Pennsylvania, will address how governments will deliver health care to their citizens. Gordon H. Guyatt, MD, FRCP(C), distinguished professor at McMaster University, will discuss how doctors will deliver health care to individual patients. Former PCON Editorial Board Member Anthony A. Cavallerano, OD, executive director of clinical training and patient care and adjunct professor at New England College of Optometry, will discuss where and how telemedicine will fit in.
The academy’s Anterior Segment Section Symposium on biologic therapies will be moderated by Walt O. Whitley, OD, MBA, FAAO, director of Optometric Services, Virginia Eye Consultants, and residency program supervisor at Pennsylvania College of Optometry at Salus University. The program will include an orientation to the class of medications, a discussion of those agents most commonly prescribed and applications in ocular disease, especially anterior segment disorders. Panelists include Casey Hogan, OD, FAAO, FSLS, owner of Advanced Eye Care Professionals and founder of the Chicago Dry Eye Center of Excellence and the Chicago Scleral Lens Center of Excellence; Laura M. Periman, MD, director of dry eye services and clinical research at Evergreen Eye Center in Seattle; and David K. Scales, MD, medical director of Retina and Uveitis Consultants of Texas.
The plenary session takes place Nov. 7, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., and the Anterior Segment Section Symposium takes place Nov. 9, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
To register, go to: www.aaopt.org/annual-meeting/san-antonio-2018.