OnDemand Ophthalmology for Pediatricians, Primary Care Physicians and Other Allied Health Professionals (1/21/2023)

Monday, January 23, 2023, 8:00 AM - Sunday, January 21, 2024, 11:00 PM

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (3.75 hours), ABO MOC Part II (3.75 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (3.75 hours)

This conference will inform participants on the emerging practices across the various subspecialties that challenge conventional standards.

The goal of this program is to review and discuss the current evidence that support or oppose these controversial topics. 

Ophthalmology for Pediatricians, PCPs and Other Allied Health Professionals took place on Saturday, January 15, 2022.

Program Chair:
Bruce Schnall, MD

Guest Faculty:
Mary O’Hara, MD
Kara C. Lamattina, MD

Wills Eye Faculty:
Kammi Gunton, MD
Sharon Lehman, MD
Judy Lavrich, MD
Jade Minor, MD
Maureen Loyd, MD
Barry N. Wasserman, MD

1. Discuss important new advances in the etiologies, diagnosis, and treatment/prevention of pediatric eye diseases and strabismus.
2. Identify basic and clinical vision research that can be transformed into improved clinical care.
3. Assess the role of new technologies in the evaluation and treatment of pediatric eye diseases.
4. Describe factors that impact the effective delivery of the highest quality eye care for the pediatric patients, and patients with strabismus.
5. Identify clinical, scientific, and ethical issues confronting the profession.
6. Obtain information and tools through multiple facets to help ophthalmologists deliver high and efficient quality of care.

AMA PRA Statement
Wills Eye Hospital designates this Enduring Material educational activity for a maximum of 3.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM. Physicians should only claim the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships

In compliance with the Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education set by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), it is the policy of Wills Eye Hospital that the information presented at CME activities will be commercially unbiased and based upon clinical and scientific evidence. To help participants make judgments about the presence of commercial bias, Wills Eye Hospital provides information that all individuals in a position to control the content of a CME activity (including faculty, planners, reviewers or others) have disclosed about all financial relationships they have with ineligible companies. All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated.

Ineligible companies are companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Financial relationships are relevant if the educational content an individual can control is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company. The CME activity staff at Wills Eye Hospital report no financial relationships with ineligible companies.