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Terrace Eye Centre Optometry Education Conference 2025

Date: 2/03/2025 (AEST)

Venue: Hotel Grand Chancellor, 23 Leichhardt Street, Spring Hill, Brisbane, QLD, 4000

Provider: Inovating Pty Ltd

Contact: Jess Tuffley, [E] nicole@inovating.com.au, [P] 0409 791 947

Activity Outline

Terrace Eye Centre are hosting an education forum for Optometrists at Hotel Grand Chancellor Brisbane on Sunday 2 March 2025. It is our aim to work with our referring practitioners by meeting their individual requirements and providing their patients with the highest standard of care in a timely, compassionate and informed manner. Topics will include:  Circadian Biology and the role of light in Retinal and Systemic health; Management of Posterior Capsular Ruptures; Retina Diagnoses and When to Refer Series: ‘Macular Fluid’; Post-Op Macular Edema and treatment approaches; My patient has had glaucoma surgery - but what exactly have they had done?; Surgical Glaucoma Case Studies; When Cataracts and Corneas Collide: Tricky decisions in anterior segment surgery; Contact lenses and biometry; Thyroid Eye Disease for Optometrists; Lumps, Bumps and Wonky Lids; Orbital Tumours - A journey into the orbit; Floppy Lids from Lax to Max; Sundries of oculoplastics lesions and lid malpositions; Ocular Surface Tumours; Iris and Ciliary Body Tumours; My Life is in your hands: a better future for those afflicted; Interesting case discussions.

Learning Objectives

  • Outline the role of our light environment and better evaluate light sources and the timing of light and their effects on health
  • Identify a posterior capsular rupture when a patient has undergone cataract surgery
  • Assess a patient presenting with macular pathology and take focussed history
  • Recognise the clinical signs and symptoms of macular edema following cataract surgery and other intraocular procedures
  • Identify, understand, and discuss the relative benefits, risks and limitations of the various surgical glaucoma options; minimally invasive glaucoma surgery devices, minimally invasive bleb surgery and traditional glaucoma surgery
  • Critically evaluate the outcomes of surgical cases and their impact on disease progression and patient quality of life
  • Identify when to refer and co-manage patients requiring complex anterior segment surgery
  • Identify discrepancies in biometry that may affect contact lens fitting or ocular health and address them appropriately
  • Assess a patient with Thyroid Eye and advise treatment options
  • Outline within the Oculoplastics domain of some of the common as well as potentially vision and life-threatening conditions periocular/orbital lesions and lid malposition
  • Summarise the important examination and investigations to work up orbital patients
  • Identify the signs and symptoms of floppy eyelid syndrome and implement conservative management strategies, with a sound understanding of when to refer for GP or specialist assistance
  • Interpret diagnostic tests, including fluorescein staining, tear breakup time, and photographs of lesions
  • Identify suspicious signs in ocular surface and anterior segment tumours
  • Determine management considerations and patient outcomes for iris and ciliary body lesions
  • Discern at risk choroidal melanocytic lesions
  • Differentiate benign ocular conditions from malignancies

Max CPD hours awarded: 8.25

Session Information

Name
Case Study (Small Group Workshop): Surgical Glaucoma Case Studies
Clinical?
Yes
Interactive?
Yes
Therapeutic?
Yes
Duration of CPD Session/Module
0.25
Duration of CPD Session/Module inclusive of Assessment Component
0.25
Name
“When Cataracts and Corneas Collide: Tricky decisions in anterior segment surgery”
Clinical?
Yes
Interactive?
No
Therapeutic?
Yes
Duration of CPD Session/Module
0.5
Duration of CPD Session/Module inclusive of Assessment Component
0.75
Name
Case Study (Small Group Workshop): “Contact lenses and biometry”
Clinical?
Yes
Interactive?
Yes
Therapeutic?
Yes
Duration of CPD Session/Module
0.25
Duration of CPD Session/Module inclusive of Assessment Component
0.25
Name
Thyroid Eye Disease for Optometrists
Clinical?
Yes
Interactive?
No
Therapeutic?
Yes
Duration of CPD Session/Module
0.25
Duration of CPD Session/Module inclusive of Assessment Component
0.5
Name
“Lumps, Bumps and Wonky Lids”
Clinical?
Yes
Interactive?
No
Therapeutic?
Yes
Duration of CPD Session/Module
0.25
Duration of CPD Session/Module inclusive of Assessment Component
0.5
Name
Orbital Tumours - A journey into the orbit
Clinical?
Yes
Interactive?
No
Therapeutic?
Yes
Duration of CPD Session/Module
0.25
Duration of CPD Session/Module inclusive of Assessment Component
0.5
Name
“Floppy Lids from Lax to Max”
Clinical?
Yes
Interactive?
No
Therapeutic?
Yes
Duration of CPD Session/Module
0.25
Duration of CPD Session/Module inclusive of Assessment Component
0.5
Name
Case Study (Small Group Workshop): Sundries of oculoplastics lesions and lid malpositions
Clinical?
Yes
Interactive?
Yes
Therapeutic?
Yes
Duration of CPD Session/Module
0.25
Duration of CPD Session/Module inclusive of Assessment Component
0.25
Name
Ocular Surface Tumours
Clinical?
Yes
Interactive?
No
Therapeutic?
Yes
Duration of CPD Session/Module
0.25
Duration of CPD Session/Module inclusive of Assessment Component
0.5
Name
Iris and Ciliary Body Tumours
Clinical?
Yes
Interactive?
No
Therapeutic?
Yes
Duration of CPD Session/Module
0.25
Duration of CPD Session/Module inclusive of Assessment Component
0.5
Name
My Life is in your hands: a better future for those afflicted
Clinical?
Yes
Interactive?
No
Therapeutic?
Yes
Duration of CPD Session/Module
0.25
Duration of CPD Session/Module inclusive of Assessment Component
0.5
Name
Case Study (Small Group Workshop): Interesting case discussions
Clinical?
Yes
Interactive?
Yes
Therapeutic?
Yes
Duration of CPD Session/Module
0.25
Duration of CPD Session/Module inclusive of Assessment Component
0.25
Name
Outline the role of our light environment and better evaluate light sources and the timing of light and their effects on health
Clinical?
Yes
Interactive?
No
Therapeutic?
No
Duration of CPD Session/Module
0.5
Duration of CPD Session/Module inclusive of Assessment Component
0.75
Name
Management of Posterior Capsular Ruptures
Clinical?
Yes
Interactive?
No
Therapeutic?
Yes
Duration of CPD Session/Module
0.5
Duration of CPD Session/Module inclusive of Assessment Component
0.75
Name
Retina Diagnoses and When to Refer Series: ‘Macular Fluid’
Clinical?
Yes
Interactive?
No
Therapeutic?
Yes
Duration of CPD Session/Module
0.5
Duration of CPD Session/Module inclusive of Assessment Component
0.75
Name
Case Study (Small Group Workshop): Post-Op Macular Edema and treatment approaches
Clinical?
Yes
Interactive?
Yes
Therapeutic?
Yes
Duration of CPD Session/Module
0.25
Duration of CPD Session/Module inclusive of Assessment Component
0.25
Name
"My patient has had glaucoma surgery - but what exactly have they had done?"
Clinical?
Yes
Interactive?
No
Therapeutic?
Yes
Duration of CPD Session/Module
0.25
Duration of CPD Session/Module inclusive of Assessment Component
0.5

Acknowledgement of Country

In the spirit of reconciliation Optometry Australia acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.