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Brien Holden Vision Institute launches Global Myopia Centre
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Brien Holden Vision Institute announced the launch of its online resource platform, Global Myopia Centre, which is intended to educate eye care professionals and equip them to manage myopia.
Included in the platform will be the Myopia Education Program, several online tools for myopia management, global prevalence data, the latest relevant peer-reviewed references, and information and resources for advocacy initiatives, according to a press release from the institute.
“The ‘Global Myopia Centre’ is bringing together the most critical knowledge and resources to the one platform to assist busy eye care professionals in better understanding all the new information available to them,” Yvette Waddell, chief executive officer of Brien Holden Vision Institute, said in the release.
Waddell noted the success of the institute’s first Managing Myopia course. The institute will release a course titled Complex Cases that responds to participant feedback. In 2019, Business of Myopia will be released, which will focus on adapting an optometric practice to maximize this transformation in patient care, according to Waddell.
“Importantly, this platform will continue to evolve and keep pace with new evidence, collaborators and technology,” Padmaja Sankaridurg, Global Myopia Centre head, said in the release. “The Global Myopia Centre will link all aspects of myopia, from epidemiology and understanding the escalation, to offering education and professional models of myopia management in the community.”