23rd Biennial Cornea Conference: Current Concepts in Corneal and Refractive Surgery and External Disease

Friday, October 22, 2021, 8:00 AM - Saturday, October 23, 2021, 12:00 PM, Wills Eye Auditorium, Philadelphia, PA


AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (12.00 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (12.00 hours), ABO MOC Part II (12.00 hours)

1. Apply current concepts in the management of ocular surface disease including treating severe dry eye conditions, GVHD, limbal stem cell deficiency and neurotrophic keratopathy.
2. Assess techniques used in the diagnosis and management of acanthamoeba keratitis, atypical infectious keratitis and infectious scleritis.
3. Appreciate current status of new techniques for corneal surgery including Descemet’s stripping endothelial keratoplasty (DSEK), Descemet’s membrane endothelial keratoplasty DMEK), deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty (DALK), and Descemet’s stripping only (DSO).
4. Integrate into practice the best use of corneal crosslinking for the treatment of keratoconus and post-refractive surgery ectasia.

Wills Eye Hospital designates this Live Activity educational activity for a maximum of 12.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM. Physicians should only claim the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

MOC Statement
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to satisfy the Lifelong Learning, Self-Assessment, Improvement in Medical Practice and/or Patient Safety requirements for the American Board of Ophthalmology’s Continuing Certification program. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit learner completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting credit.

Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships

Wills Eye Hospital CME adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education. Any individuals in a position to control the content of a CME activity, including faculty, planners, reviewers or others are required to disclose all financial relationships with ineligible entities (commercial interests). All relevant conflicts of interest have been mitigated prior to the commencement of the activity.

In compliance with the standards 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 on scientific evidence. To help participants make judgments about the presence of commercial bias, Wills Eye Hospital provides information that planners and speakers have disclosed about all financial relationships they have with commercial entities whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.