SECO hosts ‘hybrid’ meeting with live, virtual presentations
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This year's SECO meeting will be a mix of virtual presentations and live sessions that will take place in Atlanta, April 28 to May 2.
“As we started planning the SECO 2021 Congress last Spring, we decided to incorporate the ‘hybrid’ meeting model of both in-person offerings and virtual,” Elizabeth Taylor DeMayo, CEM, executive director of SECO International, told Healio. “Being able to take what our volunteers spend almost a year cultivating and delivering to a live audience, we can now leverage technology and reach an audience unable to attend in person.”
She said that the volunteers and staff met the challenge of developing the program for the simultaneous live and virtual meetings, and she looks forward to hearing feedback from attendees.
“Highly acclaimed since the 2020 launch, the MedPRO360 program features sessions in which attendees can leave with ideas they can implement immediately,” she said. “The facilitated learning labs introduced last year are peer-to-peer learning sessions and were the first courses to sell out this year. Thank you to VSP as a supporter of this program and Healio, a media supporter of this program since its inception.”
Paul C. Ajamian, OD, general chairman of the SECO CE Committee, provided Healio with a list of his top picks from the meeting’s special sessions, noting that the theme of this year’s meeting is “Cleary Envisioned, Fully Focused.”
“Each year the SECO Education Committee works to create a diverse and compelling world class curriculum of courses taught by the most sought-after speakers in the profession. SECO 2021 will once again deliver on that goal,” he said.
His list includes:
- Medical and surgical grand rounds, presented by Brooks Alldredge, OD;
- Future in focus: Emerging eye care treatments and technologies, presented by Chris Wroten, OD;
- Issues management 411: Dealing with difficult people, presented by Lynn Lawrence;
- Glaucoma 2021, presented by Arkadiy Yadgarov, MD;
- Scleral lens complications and controversies, presented by Jason Jedlicka, OD;
- Frontline ocular surface disease care, presented by Paul Karpecki, OD, and Justin Schweitzer, OD;
- Beauty and the beast, presented by Leslie Odell, OD;
- Integrating the PEDIG studies into clinical practice, presented by Glen Steele, OD, and Marie Bodack, OD;
- Practical management of ocular pain, presented by Jessica Steen, OD; and
- A refresher on OCT for primary eye care providers, presented by Chris Wroten, OD.
This year’s meeting will also feature a program designed specifically for allied eye care professionals including opticians, technicians, paraoptometrics and administrators.
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