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. Applications have been made for Joint Comission on Allied Health Professionals in Ophthalmology (JCAHPO) and nursing 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 best practices for performing biometry and lens calculations in cataract surgery
• List uses of corneal topography in diagnosing eye disease
• 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