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
- 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
- Explain steps in diagnosis and treatment of keratoconus
- List common examination techniques used by technicians and ophthalmic nursing staff for working up patients
- Describe the use the latest lens therapies for treatment of myopia progression
Program Schedule (this event is in-person only)
University of Rochester School of Medicine Ryan Case Method Room
Friday, June 12, 2026 | |||
7:30 am to 8:00 am |
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| 8:00 am to 8:10 am | Introduction | ||
| 8:10 am to 8:40 am | Heather Carmello, MS, BS, CRA, OCT-C, COA How pre-clinical work-up affects diagnostic results | ||
| 8:40 am to 9:10 am | Diana Joseph, MD Pre-operative considerations for cataract surgery? | ||
| 9:10 am to 9:40 am | Qingjie Wang, MD | ||
| 9:40 am to 10:00 am | Break & Exhibits | ||
| 10:00 am to 10:30 am | Megan Ingalls, OD | ||
| 10:30 am to 11:30 am | Ela Arnon, MD | ||
| 11:30 am to 12:30 pm | Lunch & Exhibits | ||
| 12:30 pm to 1:00 pm | Rupali Singh, MBBS | ||
| 1:00 pm to 1:30 pm | Wen Fan Hu, MD, PhD | ||
| 1:30 pm to 2:00 pm | Surabhi Beriwal, MD | ||
| 2:00 pm to 2:20 pm | Break & Exhibits | ||
| 2:20 pm to 2:50 pm | Ayat Alni’mat, MD Getting Vision & Alignment Right in Kids: Practical Skills for Clinic Staff | ||
| 2:50 pm to 3:50 pm | Scott MacRae, MD & Kenneth Dickerson, OD Keratoconus: Diagnosing and treating a progressive disease | ||
| 3:50 pm - 4:00 pm | Wrap-up and announcements | ||