Few places left for ABDO Myopia Management Conference

Professor James Wolffsohn

There are still a few places left for the inaugural ABDO Myopia Management Conference taking place on both Sunday 29 and Monday 30 October at the ABDO National Resource Centre in Birmingham.

Exploring and sharing the latest in myopia management research and treatment solutions, the oneday conference is open to a maximum of 100 ABDO members per day with 14 interactive CPD points available.

In the opening lecture (sponsored by Hoya), Professor James Wolffsohn will review myopia risks, prevalence, aetiology, and the responsibility of all practitioners to provide myopia management options. He will also discuss communicating with patients, current attitudes and practice of myopia, and sources of information from the International Myopia Institute.

For the next two lectures, delegates will split into two groups of 50 and rotate through ‘Spectacles and paediatric fit’ by Dr Alicia Thompson (sponsored by Millmead Optical Group) and ‘Innovation and communication’ by Dr Neema Ghorbani Mojarrad (sponsored by CooperVision).

Dr Thompson will focus on the importance of correctly fitting spectacles in myopia management – looking at the risks of no treatment, poor visual correction if not correctly centred, poor compliance and more. She will also link in current research findings regarding fit, and the results of a poor fit.

Dr Alicia Thompson

Dr Ghorbani Mojarrad will discuss the impact of genetics, digital devices and outdoor time on myopia progression and what the evidence says currently. He will explore for whom myopia management strategies would be best suited, and at what age and stage – as well as future innovation therapies. Each of the lectures will provide one CPD point – and will be followed by a panel Q&A then lunch in the exhibition area.

In the afternoon, delegates will split into three groups and rotate around the following three discussion workshops, worth three CPD points each: ‘Spectacle lens options’ led by Dr Thompson, and supported by Essilor, Hoya, Millmead Optical Group and Sightglass Vision; ‘Soft contact lens options’ led by Alex Webster, ABDO head of CPD, and supported by CooperVision and Mark’ennovy; ‘Technology’ led by Max Halford, ABDO clinical lead, with Dr Ghorbani Mojarrad, and supported by BiB Ophthalmic Instruments, Ocumetra and Topcon.

Delegates will take part in a visual recognition and interpretation of clinical signs exercise and discussion, worth two CPD points, and then be able to join a webinar on 1 November covering orthokeratology for myopia management – sponsored by Menicon and presented by Josie Barlow. This will be recorded and then available on demand from the ABDO website, along with a recorded lecture on pharmacology interventions and myopia management and the latest associated research, presented by Professor Mark Bullimore of the University of Houston.

Log in to the ABDO website and book your place here.

Read our preview of sponsor and exhibitor activities in the September issue of Dispensing Optics.