Technician and Allied Health Professional Program
Technician and Allied Health Professional Program
This Conference for Allied Health Professionals will provide an update for ophthalmic personnel at the assistant, technician, technologist, skilled nurse, or photographer level and will run concurrently with the physician conference. Application has been made for Joint Comission on Allied Health Professionals in Ophthalmology (JCAHPO) credit.
Topics will include:
- Ophthalmic surgical procedures
- Pediatric eye disease
- Retinal disease
- Corneal disease
- Diagnostics and imaging
- Common patient examination techniques
Course Objectives
- Describe retinal diseases and their medical and surgical treatments
- Match the correct use of diagnostic technologies with clinical presentations of ophthalmic disease
- Describe the role of nursing and ophthalmic technicians in the medical and surgical treatment of eye disease
- Describe techniques for performing accurate refractions
- List common examination techniques used by technicians and ophthalmic nursing staff for working up patients
- Describe the use of scleral lenses in treating eye disease
Program Schedule (this event is in-person only)
University of Rochester School of Medicine Ryan Case Method Room
Friday, May 23, 2025 | |||
7:00 am to 8:00 am |
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| 8:00 am to 8:10 am | Welcome and Announcements | ||
| 8:10 am to 8:40 am | Manasi Joshi, MD TBA | ||
| 8:40 am to 9:10 am | Andrea Avila, MD Pediatric eye care | ||
| 9:10 am to 9:40 am | Quingie Wang, MD Diagnosing retinal disease | ||
| 9:40 am to 10:00 am | Break and Exhibits | ||
| 10:00 am to 10:30 am | Megan Ingalls Therapeutic contact lens | ||
| 10:30 am to 11:30 am | Paul Rosenberg, MD Office-based plastic procedures | ||
| 11:30 am to 12:30 pm | Lunch | ||
| 12:30 pm to 1:00 pm | Kalah Ozimba, MD TBA | ||
| 1:00 pm to 1:30 pm | Esteban Santiago, MD Corneal infections | ||
| 1:30 pm to 2:00 pm | Raja, Narayanan MBBS In-office management retina treatments | ||
| 2:00 pm to 2:20 pm | Break & Exhibits | ||
| 2:20 pm to 2:50 pm | Felix Omoruyi, MD Retina | ||
| 2:50 pm to 3:50 pm | Rachel Wozniak, MD, PhD Cornea in photos - what the doctor sees. A review of common and uncommon corneal conditions using slit lamp photos and imaging. | ||
| 3:50 pm - 4:00 pm | Wrap-up and announcements | ||