April 17th 2024
The program will use OCT images to identify and monitor AMD in its early stages.
18th Annual Controversies in Modern Eye Care
May 4, 2024
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Heading to ARVO? You’re invited to dinner COPE CE/CME. Or join virtually!
May 6 & 7, 2024
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(COPE Credit) Community Practice Connection™: Paradigm Shifts in Presbyopia – Understanding Advances in Topical Treatment Innovations
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(CME Credit) Learning About the Lid – Optimizing Recognition, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Demodex Blepharitis & Blepharoptosis
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2nd Annual IKA Keratoconus Symposium: Front to Back and Everything in Between
May 18-19, 2024
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(COPE Credit) Learning About the Lid – Optimizing Recognition, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Demodex Blepharitis & Blepharoptosis
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(CME Credit) Virtual Case Studies™ in Cataract Surgery: Selecting Surgical Techniques and Preventing Intra-Operative Complications
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Neurotrophic Keratitis Management: How Early Intervention Can Make a Difference
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(CME Credit) Clinical Crossroads: Navigating Neurotrophic Keratitis – The Importance of Avoiding Pitfalls and Ensuring Early Intervention
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(COPE Credit) Clinical Crossroads: Navigating Neurotrophic Keratitis – The Importance of Avoiding Pitfalls and Ensuring Early Intervention
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17th Annual Controversies in Modern Eye Care
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(CME Credit) Community Practice Connections™: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Saving Sight—The Expanding Role of the Optometrist in Retinal Disease Care
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(COPE Credit) Community Practice Connections™: Advances in Geographic Atrophy – Optimizing Diagnosis, Monitoring Progression, and Increasing Communication with Transformative Treatment on the Horizon
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(COPE Credit) Community Practice Connections™: Keeping an Eye on Evolving Management Strategies for nAMD and DME
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Thyroid Eye Disease: The Masquerading Eye Disorder—A Guide to Collaborative Care and Accurate Diagnosis
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(CME Credit) Community Practice Connections™: Keeping an Eye on Evolving Management Strategies for nAMD and DME
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(COPE Credit) Community Practice Connections™: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Saving Sight—The Expanding Role of the Optometrist in Retinal Disease Care
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(CME Credit) Community Practice Connections™: Advances in Geographic Atrophy – Optimizing Diagnosis, Monitoring Progression, and Increasing Communication with Transformative Treatment on the Horizon
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What’s New in MGD Beyond Heating and Squeezing?
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The Ins and Outs of Lubricating Eye Drops
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Addressing Healthcare Inequities™ in Glaucoma Management – Understanding Challenges in Segmented Patient Populations (CME Track)
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Community Practice Connections™: Expert Perspectives in Diabetic Macular Edema – Considering Pathogenesis & Inflammation in Treatment Selection
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Medical Crossfire®: Considerations for the Use of Biosimilars in Retinal Disease - Are You Prepared for a New Paradigm? (CME Credit)
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Medical Crossfire®: Expert Insights in Anti-VEGF Dosing for nAMD and DME – Optimizing Reduction in Treatment Burden
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Community Practice Connections™: Novel Treatment Strategies in the Management of nAMD & DME - Lessons from Clinical Trial and Real-World Data
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Medical Crossfire®: Considerations for the Use of Biosimilars in Retinal Disease - Are You Prepared for a New Paradigm? (COPE Credit)
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EyeCon 2024
September 27-28, 2024
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Heading to AAO? You’re invited to a CME dinner. Or join virtually!
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(CME) Community Practice Connections™: A Closer Look at Neurotrophic Keratitis—Ensuring Timely Diagnosis and Taking Early Action
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Community Practice Connections™: Mastering the Multidisciplinary Management of Glaucoma—Understanding Advances in the Spectrum of Treatment Innovation (CME/CNE Credit)
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AAO practice patterns offers ‘awareness’ to proper AMD treatment
February 14th 2018The American Academy of Ophthalmology’s Preferred Practice Pattern on Age-Related Macular Degeneration “are based on the best available scientific data as interpreted by panels of knowledgeable health professionals.” These patterns offer solid clinical guidelines for treating and counseling AMD patients.
Systematic review brings awareness to treat-and-extend for AMD
February 1st 2018A well-known dilemma surrounding AMD is that there lacks a universally accepted treatment regimen with anti-VEGF injections. The balance between optimal visual outcomes and treatment burden has led some specialists to embrace the treat-and-extend regimen over monthly treatments.
Are you aware of the available resources for AMD?
February 1st 2018Since February is designated Age-Related Macular Degeneration Awareness month. For healthcare providers, there are numerous resources available to help promote awareness to patients and to encourage patients to continue (or start) annual visual exams.
Intravitreal brimonidine holds promise for slowing GA growth
October 23rd 2017Brimonidine Drug Delivery System (Brimo DDS) in an intravitreally administered, sustained-release implant (Allergan) shows promise as a treatment for geographic atrophy (GA), secondary to age-related macular degeneration in a phase IIa clinical trial.
Novel brolucizumab fosters as real-world alternative for nAMD
October 23rd 2017Topline results from phase III studies investigating intravitreal brolucizumab (Novartis) for treatment of neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) support the potential of this novel anti-VEGF antibody to meet the real-world need for an alternative agent with a sustainable therapeutic regimen.
Real-world outcomes with aflibercept better in treatment-naïve patients
July 1st 2017After 12 months of treatment with intravitreal aflibercept injections, both treatment-naïve and pre-treated patients demonstrated visual acuity gains. Visual acuity improvement was higher in treatment-naïve patients.
Anti-PDGF inhibitor development continues despite negative results
June 23rd 2017Despite the failure of 2 clinical trials involving a combination therapy of platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) inhibitor and anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (anti-VEGF) therapy, a third phase III study continues.
5-year CATT analysis finds anti-VEGF drugs a long-term AMD therapy
June 23rd 2017After 5 years of follow-up in the Comparison of Age-Related Macular Degeneration Treatments Trials (CATT), the visual acuity gains achieved during the first 2 years of anti-VEGF treatment were not maintained, the choroidal neovascular lesions continued to evolve with evidence of persistent activity in some eyes, and there was increased retinal thinning and geographic atrophy (GA).
Retina surgeon’s AMD regimen at center of Medicare fraud case
May 25th 2017Earlier this month, a jury convicted West Palm Beach retina surgeon Solomon Melgen, MD, on 67 counts of Medicare fraud. This high-profile case hit very close to home, as myself and another retina specialist from my own community were on opposing sides of the case.
Investigational wet AMD therapies aim for innovative targets
March 24th 2017Many investigational drugs under development for the treatment of neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nvAMD) have advanced into the clinical trial stage, including several that are being evaluated in pivotal trials, said Peter K. Kaiser, MD.
Failed cell therapy study offers positives, raises new questions
March 24th 2017Patients with a history of frequent anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (anti-VEGF) injections for the treatment of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) may not be the best potential candidates for encapsulated cell technology (ECT).
Treatment for geographic atrophy lacks efficacy in Phase 2 study
February 17th 2017In a placebo-controlled, dose-finding, proof-of-concept study conducted in patients with geographic atrophy secondary to age-related macular degeneration, an anti-amyloid β monoclonal antibody (GSK933776, GlaxoSmithKline) was safe and well-tolerated, but did not meet primary or secondary efficacy endpoints.
System offers advanced capabilities in OCT, OCTA
February 15th 2017The recent FDA clearance of a swept-source optical coherence tomography (OCT) and OCT angiography (OCTA) platform (PLEX Elite 9000, Carl Zeiss Meditec) for posterior ocular structures enables fast, dense, wide, and deep imaging of the retina, choroid, and their associated microvasculature, said Philip J. Rosenfeld, MD, PhD.
‘Ideal’ disease control leads to better nAMD outcomes
January 24th 2017Neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) is well-known as a heterogeneous disease with variable natural history and variable treatment response, said Carl D. Regillo, MD, FACS. Many patients do well without monthly treatment as noted in HARBOR PRN arms.
Treat-and-extend may lead to better AMD results
January 24th 2017Treating neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) patients with anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (anti-VEGF) ranibizumab (Lucentis, Genentech) on a monthly regimen has produced “great results” in clinical trials, said Prof. Mark C. Gillies, MBBS, PhD. “But what happens after that and what happens in real world practice?”
Researchers reject vitamin D role in macular degeneration
November 30th 2016Analyzing data from the European Eye Study, Gareth J. McKay, PhD, of Queen’s University in Belfast, United Kingdom, and colleagues in 7 countries in Europe found no meaningful association between serum 25-hydroxy vitamin D (25(OH)D) and AMD. They published the finding in Ophthalmology.
CATT follow-up explores long-term outcomes with anti-VEGF in AMD
September 15th 2016The Comparison of Age-related Macular Degeneration Treatment Trial (CATT) follow-up study found that the initial gains in visual acuity achieved with two anti-vascular endothelial growth factor drugs were lower than those achieved at the end of the 2-year CATT study.