Physicians Program Description
Course Description
The Flaum Eye Instute Proudly presents the 57th Rochester Ophthalmology Conference. This year's three-day meeting is highlighted by our Snell memorial and Distinguished Visiting Professor lectures featuring Gullapalli Rao, MD and Robert Osher, MD.
In addition, this year's program hosts other nationally renowned lecturers from across the sub-specialties as well as our own expert faculty. Please remember we are adding a special Thrurdsy afternoon session that addresses coding, chart documentation and charting that you may attend at a discounted rate if you are attending the full program.
Objectives
This conference is planned so that at its completion, participants should be able to:
- Select the most appropriate type of corneal transplant for a patient based on their disease pathology and desired visual outcomes
- List the appropriate best practice(s) for each of several complications when performing cataract surgery
- List reasons for ethically obtaining patient surgical consent
- Correlate visual fields with their associated clinical/imaging presentations in patients suffering from neuro-ophthalmological disease
- Describe how to use Optical Coherence Tomography in the diagnosis and treatment of Optic Neuritis
- Identify new ophthalmologic technologies
- Describe and differentiate new therapies for age-related macular degeneration.
Certification
The University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Accreditation
The University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry designates this educational activity for a maximum of 14.5 category I credits towards the AMA Physician’s Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.
Criteria for successful completion of this activity includes attendance at entire event, completion and submission of post evaluation survey.
Registration
Individuals who wish to attend the 2012 Rochester Ophthalmology Conference should complete the registration process by March 14, 2011.
Physician Program Schedule
Friday, March 17, 2012
| Time | Event | Details |
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| 7:30 - 8:15 a.m. | Registration & Continental Breakfast | |
| 8:15 - 8:20 a.m. | Welcome | |
Neuro-Ophthalmology |
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| 8:20 - 8:45 a.m. | Visual Fields Potpourri (With Clinical Imaging Correlation) |
Jacqueline Leavitt, M.D. |
| 8:45 - 9:10 a.m. | Neuromyelitis Optica |
Zoe Williams, M.D. |
| 9:10 - 9:35 a.m. | OCT in Optic Neuritis: Through Think & Thin |
Steven Feldon, M.D. |
| 9:35 - 9:55 a.m. | Panel Discussion | |
| 9:55 -10:15 a.m. | Break and Exhibits | |
| Posterior Segment | ||
| 10:15 - 10:40 a.m. | New Therapies in Age Related Macular Degeneration | Jayakrishna Ambati, M.D. |
| 10:40 - 11:00 a.m. | Neuroretinitis | Jacqueline Leavitt, M.D. |
| 11:00 a.m.- 11:15 a.m. | Panel Discussion |
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11:15 a.m.- 12:15 p.m. |
Lunch and Exhibits | |
Flaum Eye Institute Distinguished Visiting Professor |
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| 12:15 - 12:25 a.m. | Introduction |
Steven Feldon, MD |
| 12:25 - 1:15 a.m. | Management of Complications During Cataract Surgery, Robert Osher, M.D. |
Robert Osher, M.D. |
| 1:15 - 1:45 p.m. | To be Announced | Scott MacRae, MD |
| 1:45 - 2:15 p.m. | And More Complications | Robert Osher, M.D. |
| 2:15 - 2:45 p.m. | Panel Discussion | |
| 2:45 - 3:15 p.m. | Break, Exhibits & Posters | |
| 3:15 -3:35 p.m. | Endothelial Keratoplasty: Is Thinner Better? |
Yousuf Khalifa, MD |
| 3:35 - 3:55 p.m. | Epidemiology of Corneal Blindness and how do we tackle it? |
Gullapali Rao, MD |
| 3:55 - 4:15 p.m. | Treatment of Virteoretinal Lymphoma with Inttravitreal Methotrexate |
David DiLoreto, MD, PhD |
| 4:15 - 4:45 p.m. | Panel Discussion | |
| 4:45 - 4:55 p.m. | Wrap Up and Announcements | |
| 5:45 to conclusion | Cocktail mixer and reception for attendees (heavy hors d’oeuvres) Forbes Lounge | |
Saturday, March 17, 2012
| Time | Event | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00 -8:55 a.m. | Continental Breakfast | |
| 8:55 - 9:00 a.m. | Welcome | |
Glaucoma/Anterior Segment |
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| 9:00 - 9:20 a.m. | Managing Neovascular Glaucoma |
Salman Ali, MD |
| 9:20 -9:40 a.m. | Uncommon Cases in Glaucoma and their Management |
Shakeel Shareef, MD |
| 9:40 - 10:00 a.m. | Drug Induced Glaucomas |
Salman Ali, MD |
| 10:00 - 10:20 p.m. | Panel Discussion | |
| 10:20 - 10:40 a.m. | Break and Exhibits | |
57th Albert Snell Memorial Lecture |
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| 10:40 - 10:45 a.m. | Introduction | Steven Feldon, MD |
| 10:45 - 11:45 a.m. | Snell Memorial Lecture Blindness and Visual Impairment: Can we control it globally? |
Gullapalli Rao, MD |
| 11:45 - 12:30 p.m. | Lunch | |
Posterior Segment and Oculoplastics |
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| 12:30 - 12:50 p.m. | Avoiding Complications in Orbital Surgery | Thomas Bersani, MD |
| 12:50 - 1:10 p.m. | Currrent Management and Future Treatments for Wet AMD |
Omesh Gupta, MD |
| 1:10 - 1:30 p.m. | Complex Craniofacial Reconstruction |
Thomas Bersani, MD |
| 1:30 - 1:50 p.m. | The Management of Dislocated IOLs and Secondary IOLs |
Omesh Gupta, MD |
| 1:50 - 2:40 p.m. | Ethical Surgical Consent | Gregory McCormick, MD |
| 2:40: -3:00 p.m. | Panel Discussion | |
| 3:00 - 3:10 p.m. | Announcements | |
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