This 1-hour course, taught by an integrative optometrist and certified nutrition specialist with advanced training in nutrition, discusses the gut-eye-axis and the evidence of the role that the gut microbiome plays on ocular conditions such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD), diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, uveitis, and dry eye disease. This course highlights the evidence for the gut microbiome's role in the immune, nervous, and endocrine systems and its involvement in immune-mediated ocular diseases. The information shared will improve the audiences’ knowledge base on gut health and give the providers tools to share with their patients on supporting ocular and systemic health outcomes with nutritional and lifestyle interventions.
Glaucoma is complex disease that results in characteristic optic nerve cupping and visual field loss. What do you do when the pieces of the glaucoma puzzle fit? Is this really glaucoma? Is this patient progressing? This course will provide an overview of how diagnostic testing can help in the diagnosis and management of glaucoma and the role IOP plays in causing damage.
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The landscape of macular degeneration has completely changed over the past few years now that we have treatments for GA. This lecture will provide an update on the new treatments as well as providing an understanding of how and why these treatments work. Finally, optometry’s critical role on the front lines of AMD will be discussed.
Advancements in technology have improved patient care in numerous ways throughout healthcare. Patients with low vision can greatly benefit from these advancements. This course will review the latest technology relevant to the care of the patient with low vision.
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