WAVE 2020 Workshops & Lectures

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• 4 Workshops on Saturday Morning
• Lectures Saturday Afternoon
• Sundowner Saturday PM
• Lectures All Day Sunday
• Up to 40.5 CPD & 27T (Including optional assessments)

Delegates on Saturday AM are allocated into groups and rotate through each workshop once during the morning.

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Anterior Eye Disease Grand Rounds (T)                                   

Summary: A presentation and group discussion of a collection of slightly unusual clinical cases selected to challenge your diagnostic and management skills

Learning Objectives :

1. To broaden your diagnostic skills in certain scenarios
2. To broaden your knowledge of management options
3. To encourage lateral thinking when faced with challenging clinical presentations

Repeats x 4 from 8.30 – 9.30am / 9.30 – 10.30am / 11.05 – 12.05pm & 12.05 -1.05pm

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Managing Glaucoma Suspects (T)

Summary            Determining if a patient has glaucoma can often be a difficult task in early disease due the inherent variability in optic nerve head morphology. This workshop will use clinical examples to emphasise the importance of clinical assessment and the utility of ancillary tests (OCT and fields) in differentiating true glaucomatous optic neuropathy from other causes of optic nerve pathology. A suggested algorithm for follow-up of glaucoma suspects and when to refer will be discussed.

Learning Objectives

1. Review the high-risk features for glaucoma and differentiate these from non-glaucomatous optic nerve changes
2. Understand the importance of ancillary tests in monitoring for glaucoma suspects for the development of glaucoma
3. Understand when it is safe to follow-up and when to refer glaucoma suspects

Repeats x 4 from 8.30 – 9.30am / 9.30 – 10.30am / 11.05 – 12.05pm & 12.05 -1.05pm

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Assessing Dry Eye – A Practical in-Practice Approach  (T)

Summary: In this workshop the do’s and don’ts of how to identify and classify dry eye disease in a range of practice scenarios will be discussed. Techniques for assessing the tear film and eyelid will be demonstrated, with the opportunity to take a hands-on approach. Different approaches to management will be discussed, enabling optometrists to formulate a treatment plan depending on their clinical findings and treatments available in a variety of practice settings

Learning Objectives

1. Understand the diagnosis methodology of Dry Eye Disease
2. Understand the relevance of meibomian gland heat and expression in the management of dry eye disease
3. Understand the TFOSS DEWS II Step 1 approach to the management of Dry Eye Disease

Repeats x 4 from 8.30 – 9.30am / 9.30 – 10.30am / 11.05 – 12.05pm & 12.05 -1.05pm

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The ABC’s of Binocular Vision (non strabismus) for the Busy Optometrist

Summary: Do you feel confident with performing and interpreting binocular vision and accommodation tests? Children and adults regularly present with symptoms of binocular vision and accommodation dysfunction and optometrists are ideally placed to assess, diagnose and manage these issues. This workshop aims to revise and explore the indications for these tests, how to do them and what to do with the results.

Learning Objectives

1. To revise the symptoms of binocular vision and accommodative dysfunction
2. To detail the tests of accommodation and vergence that can easily be undertaken by every optometrist
3. To develop a framework for diagnosis and management

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Saturday PM Lectures Commence 1.55 pm.

• Dr Olivia MacVie
  Managing Ocular Inflammation  (T)
• Dr Antony Clark
  Paediatric Pearls (T)
• Liz Jackson
  Managing High Plus in Kids

Afternoon Tea Break

• Dr Alex Hui
  Antibiotic Selection in Infection Management (T)
• Dr Lauren Ayton
  Classification and Risk Prediction in Age-Related Macular Degeneration
• Jason Holland
  How to Mix the Perfect Dry Eye Cocktail (T)

Close 5.35 pm

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Sunday AM Lectures Commence 8.30 am. 

• Dr Lauren Ayton
  Imaging in AMD: New Signs to Know
• Jack Phu
  Glaucoma or Not Glaucoma – That is the Question (T)
• Dr Alex Hui
  Pain Management for Optometrists (T)

Morning Tea

• Dr Alex Hui
  Oral Antibiotics and Antivirals in Eye Care (T)
• Dr Kate Gifford
  The Visual Environment & Myopia – What to Tell Parents
• Jack Phu
  Pre-Perimetric Glaucoma – Treat or Monitor? (T)
  

Lunch Break

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Sunday PM Lectures Commence 12.55 pm.

• Jack Phu
  An Update on Recent Glaucoma-related Clinical Studies    (T)
• Dr Lauren Ayton:
  Advanced Therapeutics: Ocular Gene Therapy Now, and in The Future
• Dr Kate Gifford
  Contact Lenses for Kids (T)

Afternoon Tea Break

• Dr Kate Gifford
  Myopia Management: Clinical Decision Trees (T)
• Jack Phu
  Recent and Emerging Topical Therapies for Glaucoma (T)
• Nabill Jacob
  Your Patients and Low Vision
• Dr Dimitri Yellachich
  Update on Treatment Options for Dry Macular Degeneration: Current and Future

Conference Close 5.00 pm

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