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The College of Optometrists’ annual conference and trade exhibition
The must-attend clinical event for all UK optometrists
8 - 9 March 2015The Brighton Centre
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Earn up to 15 interactive CET points!
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Optometry Tomorrow has established itself as one of the UK’s leading optometric events. The 2014 event was our most successful to date, with over 700 delegates. In 2015, we will deliver more clinical content, giving you skills, knowledge and tips to take back into practice, as well as those vital interactive CET points.
The packed programme will feature:
• skills and discussion workshops
• peer discussion sessions
• lectures and seminars on clinical topics
• a therapeutics stream, including an independent prescribing peer discussion session
• a trade exhibition where you can learn about innovative product developments
• the chance to discuss the latest research with clinical and academic experts
• sessions on OCT, paediatrics, AMD, low vision and dry eye
• the chance to earn up to 15 interactive CET points over two days
• interactive CET sessions with exhibitors.
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Topical subjects, leading experts, latest developments and networking with peers – all under one roof
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Are you on track to meet your CET requirements before this cycle ends?
Between 1 January 2013 and 31 December 2015, you must have:
• gained 36 general CET points
• gained a minimum of six points each year
• ensured at least 18 of the points have been achieved through interactive CET
• ensured at least one point was obtained for participation in a peer review or peer discussion
• ensured that points were gained in each optometry competency unit (pictured below).
There are additional requirements for therapeutic specialist optometrists, which include participation in at least one peer review or peer discussion using therapeutics cases, and 18 additional therapeutics speciality CET points.
Delegates with a two-day ticket could earn up to 15 interactive CET points, helping you on your way to meeting, or exceeding, your requirements for this cycle.
Therapeutics stream
We are proud to present a dedicated, one-day therapeutics stream, when hot topics including glaucoma drugs, red eye and uveitis will be discussed. These seminars are designed especially for those who need to meet the therapeutics competency requirements. Although aimed at those with the therapeutics qualification, the sessions are open to all delegates. This stream also includes a therapeutics peer discussion session for IP-qualified optometrists only, to help you meet your peer review requirements for this cycle.
Meet your CET requirements at Optometry Tomorrow 2015
Competencies for optometrists Competencies for therapeutic optometrists
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Lectures
Sessions include:
• AMD
• Inflamed eyes – the serious ones
• How to catch glaucoma and how not to get caught out
• Myopia and soft contact lenses; changing the optometrist’s role, from correcting to treating.
Seminars
Sessions include:
• Why and when: corneal collagen crosslinking with case examples
• How to avoid soup on toast: the latest rehabilitation strategies in visual impairment
• Inflammation and allergy; understand the first, understand the second
• Can’t see, won’t see – investigating patients with unconvincing loss of vision.
Programme highlights
Workshops
Sessions include:
• Interpretation of optical coherence tomography
• Honey I refracted the kids
• Wet or dry? Don’t let AMD make you cry!
• Fundus photography; should I refer this case?
Therapeutics stream
Sessions include:
• Has Britain got talent in diagnosing glaucoma?
• The redder the better - the view from an IP-optometrist and an ophthalmologist on red eye cases
• Working in the community with IP.
Interactive session
Delegates will spend 30 minutes withtwo exhibitors, Topcon and Carl Zeiss, at their stands as part of an hour-long educational CET session on keratoconus and glaucoma.
*If you are IP-qualified we welcome you to attend the entire therapeutics stream, but please call Sammi Kwok on +44 (0)20 7766 4377 to book your place onto all sessions.
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Professor Joanne Wood
Professor, School of Optometry and Vision Science, Queensland University of Technology, Australia.
Professor Joanne Wood MCOptom
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George Giles Memorial Lecture: What you don’t see can hurt you – vision and driving
Summary
Most developed countries set visual standards for driving eligibility, with visual acuity and visual fields being the most prevalent vision standards worldwide. While previous research has failed to show that increased crash rates are associated with reduced vision, more recent evidence supports a strong relationship between driving performance and functional vision measures. This lecture will provide a current and comprehensive overview of the relevant research in this area, and discuss their implications with respect to optometrists assessing a patient’s visual fitness for driving and providing relevant advice.
The lecture will discuss why vision is important for driving, and will bring together material from research literature, including data from research undertaken by Professor Wood about the relationship between vision and driving. These findings will be related to the practical issues regarding vision testing for licensing and assessing fitness to drive with emphasis on the critical role of the optometrist.
Biography
Joanne Wood is a Professor at the School of Optometry and Vision Science and the Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), and has research expertise spanning a number of key areas.
Joanne graduated with first class honours in optometry from Aston University and spent two years in optometric practice before returning to Aston University to complete a PhD in automated visual field investigation. Her PhD was followed by a Post Doctoral fellowship in clinical psychophysics at Oxford University. She then joined the School of Optometry at QUT in Brisbane, Australia in 1989 as a Post Doctoral Fellow and currently holds the position of Professor in the School.
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New linked topics for 2015
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Learning paths
Optometry Tomorrow will teach you new skills and knowledge that can help you in everyday practice. See the full conference programme on pages 8-11 to choose the sessions you wouldn’t want to miss.
The conference programme covers a broad range of clinical topics, giving you many opportunities to update your skills and knowledge on topics such as paediatrics, contact lenses, red eye, glaucoma, tumours, dispensing, and low vision. New for 2015, we have identified linked topics to guide you through sessions on particular areas of interest to help maximise learning opportunities.
Some of the key topic areas on the programme are detailed here.
Glaucoma
If you want to improve your knowledge on how to diagnose, refer, treat and manage glaucoma then look no further than the glaucoma sessions we have on offer. You can hear from glaucoma experts on current treatment options, find out the latest research on how a patient sees with glaucoma, learn how to manage different glaucoma cases and update your skills on contact tonometry and gonioscopy. Paediatrics
We have sessions that will help you improve your confidence in managing and treating children. Sessions include how to diagnose children, deal with children who claim not to be able to see, how to manage amblyopia and how to refine your cycloplegic and refraction techniques.
More skills workshops
than in2014
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Contact lenses
Do you want to perfect your skills on how to fit multifocal lenses, how to manage orthokeratology patients, and how to manage allergies in contact lens wearers, as well as hear an update on recent innovations in contact lenses? If so, our contact lens sessions will be ideal for you. The impact of lifestyle on vision
Learn more about how diet, supplements, and the effects of UV and smoking can have an impact on vision. You will also be able to improve your skills in communicating healthy lifestyle messages to patients. In addition, get the latest update on the links between vision and falls and vision and driving.
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Conference programmeSunday 8 March
8am-9.15am
9.15am-9.30am
11.35am-12noon
1pm-2pm
Evening
4.05pm-4.30pm
9.30am-10.30am
2pm-3pm
10.35am-11.35am
3.05pm-4.05pm
4.35pm-5.35pm
12noon-1pm
Registration & exhibition
Welcome
Break, trade exhibition & poster presentations
Lunch, trade exhibition & poster presentations
Gala dinner, Hilton Brighton Metropole
Break, trade exhibition & poster presentations
AMDShahram Kashani
How to catch glaucoma and how not to get caught outNicholas Strouthidis
PaediatricsProfessor Gill Adams
Innovation in contact lens practiceDr Katherine Evans
Inflamed eyes – the serious onesEd Hughes
Can optometrists help prevent falls?Professor David Elliott
Why and when: corneal collagen crosslinking with case examplesShruti Malde
Don’t lose sight of dementiaProfessor David Edgar & Dr Rakhee Shah
Update on lifestyle effects on visionProfessor John Lawrenson (diet, supplements and smoking) & Karen Walsh (UV)
It’s logical – as far asI’m concerned. Why belief gets in the way when communicating good sense Andy Cole
Can’t see, won’t see – investigating patients with unconvincing loss of visionDr Susanne Kelly & David Sculfor
IOLsDr Phillip Buckhurst
DISCUSSION: Latest cases and strategies in dry eye management 1Sarah Farrant
DISCUSSION: Honey I refracted the kids 1Simon Frackiewicz
DISCUSSION: Latest cases and strategies in dry eye management 2Sarah Farrant
DISCUSSION: Honey I refracted the kids 2Simon Frackiewicz
DISCUSSION: Orthokeratology 2Katie Harrop
DISCUSSION: Orthokeratology 1Katie Harrop
LECTURE STREAM SEMINAR STREAM WORKSHOP STREAM 1
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*We have identified sessions that cover common topics. If you have an interest in these topics, you may wish to attend the highlighted sessions.
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SKILLS: Feeling under pressure? Contact tonometry 1Thurka Sivapalan
DISCUSSION: Interpretation of optical coherence tomography 2Pearse Keane
SKILLS: Feeling under pressure? Contact tonometry 2Thurka Sivapalan
DISCUSSION: Glaucoma care: NICE work if you can get it 1Angela Whitaker
DISCUSSION: Glaucoma care: NICE work if you can get it 2Angela Whitaker
DISCUSSION: Interpretation of optical coherence tomography 1Pearse Keane
DISCUSSION: Fundus photography; should I refer this case? 1Wendy Newsom
SKILLS: Wet or dry? Don’t let AMD make you cry! 2Shamina Asif
DISCUSSION: Fundus photography; should I refer this case? 2Wendy Newsom
SKILLS: Not a dry eye in the house? How to assess dry eye in practice 1Kate Powell
SKILLS: Not a dry eye in the house? How to assess dry eye in practice 2Kate Powell
SKILLS: Wet or dry? Don’t let AMD make you cry! 1Shamina Asif
Glaucoma drugsLucy Titcomb
Therapeutics peer discussion
The redder the better - the view from an IP optometrist and an ophthalmologist on red eye casesEd Farrant & Damian Lake
Black dots, white spots and red all over - the management of uveitisHelen Wilson
How do you work in the community with IP?John Tickner
Has Britain got talent in diagnosing glaucoma?Adam Wannell
INTERACTIVE SESSION:Topcon - Am I seeing early keratoconus?Carl Zeiss - Evolving glaucoma management
Welcome
Break, trade exhibition & poster presentations
Lunch, trade exhibition & poster presentations
Gala dinner, Hilton Brighton Metropole
Break, trade exhibition & poster presentations
Registration & exhibition
WORKSHOP STREAM 2 WORKSHOP STREAM 3 THERAPEUTICS STREAM INTERACTIVE SESSIONS
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Linked topics*
Paediatrics Glaucoma
AMD
Lifestyle andcommunication
Contact lenses
Low vision
Tear film
sponsored by Topcon
sponsored by Topcon
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Conference programmeMonday 9 March
8am-9am
11.05am-11.30am
3.30pm-3.55pm
2.30pm-3.30pm
12.30pm-1.30pm
9am-10am
1.30pm-2.30pm
10.05am-11.05am
3.55pm-4.55pm
5pm-6pm
11.30am-12.30pm
Registration & exhibition
Break, trade exhibition & poster presentations
Break, trade exhibition & poster presentations
The College of Optometrists’ AGM & Benevolent Fund AGM
Lunch, trade exhibition & poster presentations
Myopia and soft contact lenses: changing the optometrist’s role from correcting to treatingProfessor Bruce Evans
I’ve no eye, dearJoyce Burns
TumoursMandeep Sagoo
No lecture in this timeslot
Glaucoma through the eyes of the patientProfessor David Crabb
How to avoid soup on toast: the latest rehabilitation strategies in visual impairmentProfessor Chris Dickinson
Innovations in technology for optometryProfessor David Thomson
DispensingProfessor Mo Jalie
No seminar in this timeslot
Inflammation and allergy: understand the first, understand the secondPeter Frampton
DISCUSSION:Optometric management of amblyopia: a case study discussion 1Professor Kathryn Saunders
SKILLS:Low vision - understanding the bigger picture 2Jane Macnaughton & Dr Joy Myint
DISCUSSION:Optometric management of amblyopia: a case study discussion 2Professor Kathryn Saunders
SKILLS:When a good flush out is the answer. Unblocking the mystery of the lacrimal system 1Colin & Amanda Davidson
SKILLS:When a good flush out is the answer. Unblocking the mystery of the lacrimal system 2Colin & Amanda Davidson
SKILLS:Low vision - understanding the bigger picture 1Jane Macnaughton & Dr Joy Myint
LECTURE STREAM SEMINAR STREAM WORKSHOP STREAM 1
George Giles Memorial Lecture: What you don’t see can hurt you – vision and drivingProfessor Joanne Wood
*We have identified sessions that cover common topics. If you have an interest in these topics, you may wish to attend the highlighted sessions.
supported by BCLA
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SKILLS: Wet or dry? Don’t let AMD make you cry! 3Shamina Asif
DISCUSSION:Paediatrics 2Dr Maggie Woodhouse
SKILLS: Wet or dry? Don’t let AMD make you cry! 4Shamina Asif
SKILLS:Welcome to the chamber of secrets: the dark art of gonioscopy (for beginners) 1 Dr Dan Rosser
SKILLS:Welcome to the chamber of secrets: the dark art of gonioscopy (for beginners) 2Dr Dan Rosser
DISCUSSION:Paediatrics 1Dr Maggie Woodhouse
SKILLS:How to get the best out of your OCT (for beginners) 1Mike Horler & Peter Marson
SKILLS:Presbyopia - have you tried it yet? 2Simon Donne
SKILLS:How to get the best out of your OCT (for beginners) 2Mike Horler & Peter Marson
DISCUSSION: Interpretation of optical coherence tomography 3Pearse Keane
DISCUSSION: Interpretation of optical coherence tomography 4Pearse Keane
SKILLS:Presbyopia - have you tried it yet? 1Simon Donne
Peer discussion 1
Peer discussion 4
Peer discussion 2
Peer discussion 5
Peer discussion 6
Peer discussion 3
INTERACTIVE SESSION:Topcon - Am I seeing early keratoconus?Carl Zeiss - Evolving glaucoma management
Break, trade exhibition & poster presentations
Break, trade exhibition & poster presentations
The College of Optometrists’ AGM & Benevolent Fund AGM
Lunch, trade exhibition & poster presentations
Registration & exhibition
WORKSHOP STREAM 2 WORKSHOP STREAM 3 THERAPEUTICS STREAM INTERACTIVE SESSIONS
Linked topics*
Paediatrics Glaucoma
AMD
Lifestyle andcommunication
Contact lenses
Low vision
Tear film
sponsored by Topcon
sponsored by Topcon
sponsored by Topcon
sponsored by Topcon
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Enjoy networking at our social events
Sponsored by
The conference venueThe Brighton Centre, King’s Road, Brighton,BN1 2GR.
The Brighton Centre is located just a mile from Brighton railway station. The Brighton Centre boasts a panoramic sea view and a light, airy interior.
It takes just a few minutes to travel between meeting rooms which are accessible
via lifts and stairs.
Welcome receptionSaturday 7 March, 6pm-8pmThe Brighton Centre Dress code: Smart casual
Marking the official start of Optometry Tomorrow 2015, the welcome reception is free to conference delegates. The reception will be held in the exhibition area of the conference, creating the perfect setting to network with your industry peers, pre-register for the conference and meet exhibitors before the event gets underway.
The conference registration desk will be open throughout the event, so beat the Sunday morning crowd and pick up your delegate pack during the reception.
Gala dinnerSunday 8 March, 7.15pm - midnightHilton Brighton Metropole Dress code: Black tie
The gala dinner is the main social event of the conference. Bringing the outdoors in, the Hilton Brighton Metropole will be transformed into a seaside scene with plenty of entertainment including seaside stall games and a live band, as well as a drinks reception and three course dinner.
The Hilton Brighton Metropole has a reputation for delivering high quality gala dinners and the hotel is centrally located on Brighton’s seafront, less than a five minute walk from the Brighton Centre.
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Don’t miss out – book your place now!
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Non-member - - £480 - - £520
Gala dinner £50 £50 £50 £50 £50 £50
Student (UK full-time student) / pre-reg optometrist
- £70 £90 - £120 £135
Conference feesOne-day ticket Two-day ticket
50% offer Full rateEarly bird 50% offer Early bird Full rate
To be eligible for the College membership rate, you must be a member of the College at the time of the event.
To be eligible for the newly-qualified member rate, you must be a College memberand have qualified after January 2013.
The 50% off offer is available to College members until midnight 12 December 2014. The early bird rate is available from 13 December 2014 until midnight on 30 January 2015.
50% off if you book by 12 December
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Three easy ways to bookOnline: Visit www.optometrytomorrow.orgBy post: Complete and return the enclosed booking formBy phone: Call +44 (0)20 7766 4347
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What your ticket includes
Lectures 2seminars
1workshop
1peer
discussion
*Ability topurchase
moreworkshops
*More workshops are available for fully-qualified members to purchase at £30 each from 7 January 2015.
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Over 700 delegates attended the 2014 conference and 98% of delegates said they would consider attending Optometry Tomorrow again.
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“Yet another excellent event - the CET is of a high standard, varied and interesting.”
“I was very impressed with the level of organisation and the calibre of the talks and workshops.”
“A fantastic conference.”
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