Myopia Management – Customizing Your Practice for the Future
This Seminar will present the latest trends in managing the myopia epidemic in our Country.
Myopia is increasing at an alarming rate in the US and Worldwide. With Orthokeratology and new innovative lens designs, you can make an immediate improvement in your patients quality of life and provide benefits for their future.
Come hear Dr. Lipson, an Industry expert in the marketing of Custom specialty lenses for the management of myopia. Dr. Lipson with cover the science in how corneal reshaping products have been proven to slow Axial Length increases and myopic progression. The ability to manipulate growth allows for managing myopia progression in a way that traditional visual corrective modalities do not. Dr. Lipson will explain how you can bring Corneal Reshaping through Orthokeratology and Distance Center Multifocal designs into your practice to aid in this life changing visual corrective management for your patients now and in the future.
What You Will Learn-
· Addressing the Myopia Epidemic
· Learn about Myopia Management with OrthoK
· Bringing Myopia Management into your Practice
· Other Innovative Lens Designs for Myopia Management
· Establishing a Myopia Management Strategy
Date: September 25, 2019
Time: 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Location: 969 S. Kipling Parkway Lakewood, CO 80226
Come Early for Lab Tours, Drinks & Hors d’oeuvres
Speaker-Dr. Michael Lipson is an optometrist/associate professor at University of Michigan. His clinical practice involves specialty contact lenses: OrthoK, keratoconus, post-corneal transplant, post-refractive surgery and severe dry eye patients. He has published peer-reviewed clinical research studies on OrthoK, vision-related quality of life, myopia control and new lens designs. He lectures nationally and internationally on specialty contact lens and research topics. Dr. Lipson developed a validated questionnaire to assess vision-related quality of life for all types of vision correction, including OrthoK. He is an independent consultant to the specialty lens industry emphasizing OrthoK education. He is on the GPLI Advisory Board, served as Vice-President of the Scleral Lens Education Society and on the Scleral Lens Education Society Board for many years.
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