SESSIONS

 
 

Dr Evgenia Konstantakopoulou

Clinician, researcher or academic - The New Optometry is now!

Learning Objectives:

  • Understand the scope of optometry across different countries.

  • Evaluate the contribution of optometrists in various healthcare systems and assess how these can be utilised to promote the optometrists’ role in the delivery of ophthalmic care locally.

  • Understand and appraise the role of optometrists as researchers and educators.

  • Formulate a professional development plan, capitalising on the international optometry scene.

 

Bausch + Lomb

Simon Hanna

Go beyond with the most progressive daily disposable silicone hydrogel - Bausch & Lomb's Ultra One Day Multifocal

Learning Objectives: 

  • Review the features and benefits of the Ultra® One Day Multifocal contact lens.

  • Highlight the features of Bausch and Lomb’s 3 zone-progressive Ultra ® One Day Multifocal contact lens

Stream 1

 

Stream 2

Roman Serebrianik

A look at stroke in Australia: What you need to know and what your patients may ask

Learning Objectives:

  • Recognise the risk factors and common signs of stroke and what to do in case of sudden onset of stroke.

  • Describe the pertinent stroke statistics in Australia.

  • Support patients with lived experience of stroke and list supports and resources available.

 

Dr Brooke Messer

Contact lenses and keratoconus: Which lens works best?

Learning Objectives:

  • Understand corneal topography and how topography can influence lens design selection.

  • Describe how some contact lens designs are superior to others based on cornea shape and severity of keratoconus.

  • Understand contact lens fitting techniques of each design.

Dr Kate Reid

Optic nerve stroke - Blindness and worse

Learning Objectives:

  • List factors influencing normal retinal nerve fibre layer thickness.

  • Distinguish arteritic from non-arteritic ION.

  • Understand the link between NAION and obstructive sleep apnoea, and appreciate its implications for systemic health.

 

Dr Peter Beckingsale

Has laser and cross-linking done away with surgery for the management of keratoconus and corneal dystrophies?

Learning Objectives:

  • Understand the role of surgery and other interventions in the management of keratoconus and corneal dystrophies and how they may benefit their patients.

 

Stream 1

Rodenstock

Nicola Peaper

A pain in the neck

Learning Objectives: 

  • Understand the correct ergonomics required for desktop computer use and ensure the solution offered to a patient does not interfere with this.

  • Appreciate that not all digressive lenses are suitable for desktop computer use.

  • Understand the different methods of reducing the amount of blue light the patient experiences.

Stream 2

CSL Seqirus

Prof Stephanie Watson

Practical guidance for eyecare practitioners in treating moderate-to-severe dry eye disease with ciclosporin

Learning Objectives:

  • Appreciate the superiority of ciclosporin in clinical effectiveness of ocular surface disease treatment compared to other conventional treatment.

  • Understand when and how ciclosporin is used to treat dry eye disease

  • Recognise the ciclosporin products that are available to prescribe in Australia

Dr Dennis Lowe

A clinical approach to optic neuropathies

Learning Objectives:

  • .Understand the causes and presentations of differing optic neuropathies.

 
 

Prof Stephanie Watson

Cataract surgery: Bringing it all together

Learning Objectives:

  • Understand key steps in managing patients who require cataract surgery.

Dr Dennis Lowe

“My eye hurts!” – Ocular pain, headaches and migraine

Learning Objectives:

  • Confidently diagnose why a patient presents in clinical setting with ocular pain.

  • Differentiate between ocular pain from ocular and non-ocular causes.

 

Prof Laura Downie

Seeing' immune cells dynamics in the cornea

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe the immune cell types in the cornea, and why these cells are important for eye health.

  • Appreciate how corneal in vivo confocal microscopy can be used as a non-invasive tool that provides unique insight into the dynamic features of immune cells. 

  • Understand the bidirectional relationship between corneal immune cells and sensory nerves.

 
 

Stream 1

Vision Eye Institute

Dr Jason Cheng

Shallow anterior chambers and narrow angles - when to refer and when to treat?

Dr John Mckenzie

Pigmented lesion of the fundus - what is the difference between common small flat naevi which are benign and uveal melanoma, where there is an intermediate zone of suspicious naevi.

Learning Objectives:

  • Understand the management of patients with a shallow anterior chamber and narrow angles. 

  • Diagnose different ocular lesions and understand the appropriate management pathway, including when to monitor and when to refer.

Stream 2

CooperVision

Joe Tanner

Reasons to be cheerful? The myopia epidemic, myopia management and MiSight 1 day

Learning Objectives:

  • Understand key findings from the MiSight 1 day study with respect to myopia progression, vision and ocular health.

 

Prof Bang Bui, Prof Michael Kallioniatis, Dr Jack Phu

Glaucoma: Challenges and opportunities

Learning Objectives:

  • Outline topics of recent academic literature on glaucoma, including testing, diagnosis, care delivery and the mechanisms of glaucomatous damage and functional deficits.

 

Bausch + Lomb

Simon Hanna

The Ultra® Monthly Contact Lens: Now’s the time to go beyond

Learning Objectives:

  • To review the benefits of the Ultra® Monthly contact lens family.

  • To review the technology and benefits of an aspheric contact lens design

  • To highlight the features of Bausch & Lomb’s Ultra ® for Astigmatism contact lens.

  • To highlight the features of Bausch & Lomb’s 3 zone-progressive Ultra® for Presbyopia contact lens.

Stream 1

A/Prof Alex Hui

Prescribing for patients who are pregnant or breastfeeding

Learning Objectives:

  • Understand the special considerations necessary to safely prescribe medications for pregnant or breastfeeding patients.

  • Describe the different pregnancy categories for drugs and how these can be used to help make prescribing decisions.

 

Stream 2

Dr Jason Charng

Artificial intelligence in optometry – Rise of the machines?

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe applications of artificial intelligence in optometry.

  • Understand current challenges in implementing artificial intelligence into the clinic.

A/Prof Alex Hui

Principles for practical prescribing in paediatric patients

Learning Objectives:

  • Understand the key considerations when prescribing for the pediatric population compared to adults.

  • Source resources to help make paediatric prescribing decisions.

  • Understand how to tailor prescribing for paediatric patients.

 

Dr Angelica Ly

A-eye-care – How AI can revolutionise optometry

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe how optometrists can apply artificial intelligence in age-related macular degeneration care.

  • Articulate enablers and barriers to using artificial intelligence in the consulting room.

 

Alcon

Helen Gleave, Joshua Clark and Kate Soong

What’s trendy in 2024?

Learning Objectives:

  • Understand the current trends in contact lens prescribing in ANZ.

  • Gain a greater appreciation for trends in environmental sustainability.

  • Understand Alcon’s water surface contact lens technology.

  • Understand the use of Precision Balance 8/4 technology in toric contact lenses

ZEISS

Jessica Kingsley

How are you preparing your practice for the future?

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe how innovation will change the future of optometry and be able to adapt and embrace the change.

Stream 1

 
 

Stream 2

Adele Jefferies

The power of pills: How oral therapeutics can play a role in dry eye disease management

Learning Objectives:

  • Understand which oral therapeutic agents may be indicated in the management of dry eye disease and their mechanism of action.

  • Understand when patients with dry eye disease may benefit from oral therapeutics in an optometry setting. 

  • Understand a safe approach to incorporating oral therapeutics for dry eye disease into primary practice.

 

Michael Yapp

Delving into telehealth – Consults, calls and communications

Learning Objectives:

  • Understand the advantages of telehealth consultating to obtain diagnosis and management advice.

  • Be aware of the available options for telehealth and their limitations.

  • Implement telehealth programs in their practices to assist with patient management.

Alinta Southam-Rogers

Fixing red eye; there’s no need to cry

Learning Objectives:

  • Identify a range of red eye conditions and manage them.

 

Meri Galoyan and Nicola Lee

Multimodal imaging: Providing a window into the future of eye disease

Learning Objectives:

  • Interpret multimodal imaging to detect disease progression in glaucoma and AMD.

  • Recognise multimodal imaging disease biomarkers and how they relate to potential disease progression in glaucoma and AMD.

 

Stream 1 Sponsor Presentation

Johnson & Johnson

Biten Kathrani

Revolutionising the future of eye health via patient centric contact lens innovation

Learning Objectives:

  • Understand the interaction of the tear film and CLs and the important role it plays for vision.

  • Recognize the age-related changes (over 40 & presbyopia) on ocular surface, environmental light conditions and the impact to vision quality.

  • Impact of digital lifestyle and how filtering high energy visible (HEV) light (ubiquitously present all around us) can improve visual outcome for patients.

Stream 2 Sponsor Presentation

Alcon Labs

Dr Madeleine Adams

Presbyopia-correcting IOLs: When technology and reality collide

Learning Objectives:

  • Appreciate the benefits to patients that PCIOLs provide.

  • Appreciate the real-life implications of clinical measures.