Melbourne ECOV/SA/T: What not to miss when managing patients with Uveitis
Date: 31/03/2025 (AEDT)
Venue: Zagames 66 Lygon Street, Melbourne Victoria 3053 , VIC, 3053
Provider: Optometry Vic/SA
Contact: Chynnae Jewell, [E] c.jewell@optometry.org.au, [P] 0396529100
To ensure all members and dietary requirements are catered for, please register by Monday 24th March
Activity Outline
This session will cover: Basic principles and pitfalls in the management of uveitis. Understand what therapeutic options are available to optometrists (especially now that Flarex is unavailable), dosing schedule of steroids and mydriatics and when ophthalmology care is necessary. Help optometrists to understand the next steps of management of chronic uveitis patients and potential systemic implications of the patient’s ocular condition – and vice versa.
Learning Objectives
- Recognise the ocular signs and symptoms both of acute and chronic uveitis
- Under the principles of best practice steroid prescribing, including the monitoring and management of steroid responders
- Develop a broad understanding of some of the more common systemic associations of uveitis
- Recognise the importance of taking a thorough medical and medications history in all patients presenting with uveitis, due to the increasing incidence of medication induced uveitis (particularly in oncology)
Max CPD hours awarded: 1.5
Session Information
| Name |
|---|
| What not to miss when managing patients with Uveitis |
| Clinical? |
| Yes |
| Interactive? |
| Yes |
| Therapeutic? |
| Yes |
| Duration of CPD Session/Module |
| 1.5 |
| Duration of CPD Session/Module inclusive of Assessment Component |
| 1.5 |
Speaker:
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Professor Lyndell Lim
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Prof Lyndell Lim is a Specialist Ophthalmologist with dual sub-specialty training in the areas of Ocular Inflammatory Diseases and Medical Retina. After completing her ophthalmology training at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital (RVEEH), Prof Lim embarked on a two-year Medical Retina Fellowship at RVEEH and then went on to complete a Uveitis Fellowship at the Casey Eye Institute in Portland, Oregon, USA. Prof Lim has authored over 110 peer reviewed published articles and 7 book chapters. She has also been the recipient of an NHMRC Early Career Fellowship in support of her research work, in addition to competitive grant funding from the Ramaciotti Foundation, Diabetes Research Trust, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Alfred Felton Bequest and the Ophthalmic Research Institute Australia. She is currently a Principal Research Fellow at the Centre for Eye Research Australia (CERA), University of Melbourne, where she leads the Uveitis and Retinal Vascular Disease Research Group, and is the Chief Medical Officer of Cerulea Clinical Trials, a new clinical trial entity of CERA. Prof Lim also is a Consultant Ophthalmologist sub-specialising in the fields of Medical Retina and Ocular Inflammatory Disease at both the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital (RVEEH) and the Royal Melbourne Hospital and is Head of the Ocular Immunology Clinic at RVEEH. Her main passion is in clinical research, particularly in the areas of Ocular Inflammatory Disease and Diabetic Retinopathy, where she is continually searching for better treatments for these diseases |
