Now available for AOA members, industry and manufacturers’ product and disease education resources are in one place to assist with practices and patients. The AOA provides an innovative, time-saving resource tool that members can access at the point-of-care right from their iPads, mobile phones, or laptop computers.
Ophthalmic Resources On-Demand can be found on the home page of the AOA Web site under the “For Doctors” section or at hro.aoa.org. Read the rest of this entry ?
Earl L. Smith III, O.D., dean of the College of Optometry at the University of Houston (UH), recently received an award for his work in slowing the progression of nearsightedness in children.
Dr. Smith, who also holds the endowed Greeman-Petty Professor chair, accepted the Donald Korb Award for Excellence at a ceremony June 17 from the AOA Contact Lens and Cornea Section.
The Korb award is given in recognition of an individual who has been an innovator and leader in the field of contact lenses and anterior segment disease, which include anomalies dealing with the front of the eye involving the cornea, iris and lens. Read the rest of this entry ?
Participants at the SVS's CE event demonstrate Nike SPARQ Vapor Strobe Goggles. This was part of the “Bringing Visual Performance Training to the Athlete: A New Paradigm” workshop at Athletic Republic in Salt Lake City.
More than 100 attendees participated in the AOA Sports Vision Section’s special off-site continuing education (CE) workshop, “Bringing Visual Performance Training to the Athlete: A New Paradigm,” in Salt Lake City during Optometry’s Meeting®. This special program offered four hours of CE, featuring exciting new information and developments in the area of visual performance evaluation and enhancement.
Participants met early in the morning to board buses for the short ride to Athletic Republic, a strength and conditioning gym located in The Orthopedic Specialty Hospital in nearby Murray, Utah. This impressive facility is set up to train and rehabilitate athletes of all levels, including several USA Olympic and professional teams.
Experts Alan W. Reichow, O.D., and Graham B. Erickson, O.D., presented an innovative new tool from Nike Sport Sensory Training (SST) that was designed to integrate separate and disparate vision assessment and training tools into a validated, digitally based instrument, the Sensory Station. Read the rest of this entry ?
Winning submission
In 1972 Kansas Gov. Robert Docking helped the AOA and the Kansas Optometric Association launch a popular year-long children’s art contest titled the “Joy of Seeing.”
Other state associations followed Kansas’ lead, and encouraged opinion shapers in their states to help publicize and promote the event sponsored by the AOA to increase public awareness of the importance of good vision.
More than 103,000 children submitted art with their interpretation of the theme. Children who won at the state level competed in the AOA’s national contest.
The grand prize winner went sight-seeing in New York, and the top three winners received free trips to Disney World in the summer of 1973.
Images are from the collection of The Archives & Museum of Optometry, Optometry Cares® – The AOA Foundation.
A majority of recently surveyed moms feel well-prepared to have conversations with their kids about tough topics such as drugs, alcohol and smoking. Yet, relatively few felt adequately equipped to handle more basic “daily talks” that can impact their child’s self-confidence.
To help arm parents with the tools they need to make the most of these confidence-boosting opportunities, Bausch + Lomb and Mom Central Consulting are partnering to deliver tips on how best to have those “daily talks” about everything from acne care to transitioning from glasses to contact lenses. Read the rest of this entry ?
The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has instructed durable medical equipment Medicare administrative contractors (DME-MACs) to deactivate a claim editing function that has been improperly denying many DME claims using a “B7” remittance notification.
As a result of a technical problem in an editing function, some health care practitioners who are not required by Medicare to hold special certification to dispense durable medical equipment (DME) have been seeing their DME claims improperly denied, according to DME-MACs. Read the rest of this entry ?
Dr. Shipp
Greater involvement by optometrists in the public health system will be necessary to address a projected doubling of blindness and visual disability rates over the next two decades, according to Melvin “Mel” Shipp, O.D., Dr.P.H., MPH, the first optometrist ever elected to lead the American Public Health Association (APHA).
Moreover, it could be an effective way to demonstrate the importance of today’s optometric scope of practice to the rest of the health care system, Dr. Shipp adds.
“Optometrists are public health,” said Dr. Shipp in a recent interview with Optometry: Journal of the American Optometric Association. Read the rest of this entry ?
Registration is now open for the 139th American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting and Exposition, Oct. 29-Nov. 2, 2011, in Washington, D.C. APHA members and non-members who register by Aug. 19 can take advantage of special “early bird” discounts, according to APHA staff.
In addition, special registration discounts provided to APHA members can effectively allow them to both join the association and attend the meeting for the same price non-members would pay for meeting registration alone, according to APHA staff. Read the rest of this entry ?
A rare but potentially sight-threatening condition associated with contact lens wear is being targeted by researchers developing a novel antimicrobial material at the Brien Holden Vision Institute and University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney.
Microbial keratitis occurs in only around four in every 10,000 daily contact lens wearers and 20 in every 10,000 continuous contact lens wearers, but its effects can be devastating. Read the rest of this entry ?
Innovation and continuous improvement are the AOA’s top priorities, in a comprehensive, five-year plan designed to position optometry and the association for success in a rapidly changing economy and health care system, Executive Director Barry J. Barresi, O.D., Ph.D., reported during Optometry’s Meeting®.
The continuous improvement program comes as part of the AOA Five-Year Plan for Profitable Growth that was adopted during the association’s 2009-2010 administrative year to provide a multiyear business plan that is to be annually updated by the AOA Board of Trustees. Read the rest of this entry ?
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