Industry experts will share their insights on how they have made myopia management an integral part of their work at a virtual event next month.
The World Council of Optometry (WCO), in partnership with CooperVision, is hosting the complimentary online event, ‘Myopia Management: Advancing the Global Standard of Care’, on 16 February 2023. It will focus on the three pillars of mitigation, measurement, and management.
The WCO introduced the myopia management standard of care resolution in April 2021, defining an evidence-based standard of care comprised of the three main pillars.
WCO president-elect Dr Sandra Block said optometrists and other eyecare professionals from around the world are invited to attend this virtual event.
“It will help the listener gain a broader perspective on how to incorporate myopia management as the standard of care in their practices,” she said.
“As myopia has risen to an epidemic level globally, early mitigation, measurement, and management of myopia in young patients can help reduce the risk of serious eye health issues as adults. The World Council of Optometry is grateful to CooperVision for its partnership in this important mission to spread the word.”
Speakers
The virtual event will explore the myopia epidemic through real stories told by patients and leading eyecare professionals, including:
- Professor Seang-Mei Saw (Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore). Saw has made major observations and key discoveries in the epidemiology of myopia, characterising the environmental, genetic, and anatomical predictors of myopia in children and adults in Singapore and worldwide.
- Dr Kai-yip Choi (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Optometry). Choi, a research assistant, has been providing optometric clinical care in the university clinic since 2014.
- Dr Foo Li Lian (Myopia Service and Refractive Department, Singapore National Eye Centre, and Myopia Centre of Excellence). Subspecialising in myopia, focusing on childhood myopia control as well as refractive and cataract surgeries, Foo aims to create the next generation of treatment modalities that can halt the progression of myopia.
- Mr Indie Grewal is a qualified dispensing optician and optometrist with more than three decades of experience within the optical industry. As well as participating in contact lens clinical trials, he has a special interest in myopia management and multifocal contact lens fitting.
- Dr Jessica Haynes practices as consulting faculty in the Southern College of Optometry Advanced Care Ocular Disease clinic and as a full-time associate optometrist at Charles Retina Institute.
- Ms Yasmin Whayeb is an optometrist and PhD student at Aston University, Birmingham, UK. Her research interests include the progression and management of myopia in children, and the choroidal response to optical myopia intervention methods.
- Dr Kyle Klute owns and practices at Good Life Eyecare, a multilocation practice in Eastern Nebraska and Western Iowa. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Optometry, and an editor for the Journal of Medical Optometry.
Learn more about the full list of speakers here.
Registration and resources
Visit the World Council of Optometry myopia management online resource featuring the standard of care pledge signup page, resolution, and practical tools and information for optometrists here.
Register for the ‘Myopia Management: Advancing the Global Standard of Care’ virtual event, delivered in multiple time zones worldwide here.
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