Wills Eye Hospital Ophthalmology Review Course 2024

Saturday, February 24, 2024, 7:00 AM - Wednesday, February 28, 2024, 5:00 PM, Wills Eye Auditorium, Philadelphia, PA


AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (45.50 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (45.50 hours)

Course Director
Ralph C. Eagle, Jr., MD

Dates
March 4 – 8, 2023

Location 
Wills Eye Hospital Auditorium,
840 Walnut Street, 8th Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19107

This live in-person course is a comprehensive and intensive review of ophthalmology for practicing ophthalmologists and ophthalmology residents and fellows. Topics taught by our world-renowned faculty range from anatomy, corneal diseases, eyelid, glaucoma, imaging, immunology, neuro-ophthalmology, oncology, orbit, ocular pathology, pediatrics, pharmacology, physiology, optics and refraction, and retina.

Guest Faculty
David L. Guyton, MD, Professor of Ophthalmology,
The Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute, Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, Maryland

Kristina Irsch, PhD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology,
The Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute, Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, Maryland

Peter J. Savino, MD, Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology & Neurosciences, Shiley Eye Institute, UC San Diego Health
Hermann D. Schubert, MD, Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology
and Pathology, Columbia University, New York, New York

Wills Eye Hospital Faculty 
Jurij R. Bilyk, MD, Attending Surgeon, Oculoplastic Service

Jacqueline Carrasco, MD, Attending Surgeon, Oculoplastic & Orbital Surgery

Ralph C. Eagle, Jr., MD, Service Chief, Department of Pathology

Mitchell S. Fineman, MD, Attending Surgeon, Retina Service

Sunir J. Garg, MD, Attending Surgeon, Retina Service

Kristin M. Hammersmith, MD, Attending Surgeon, Cornea Service

Daniel Lee, MD, Attending Surgeon, Glaucoma Service

Jonathan S. Myers, MD, Service Chief, Glaucoma Service

Christopher J. Rapuano, MD, Service Chief, Cornea Service

Bruce M. Schnall, MD, Attending Surgeon, Adult and Pediatric Strabismus

Carol L. Shields, MD, Service Chief, Oncology Service

James F. Vander, MD, Attending Surgeon, Retina Service

Barry N. Wasserman, MD, Attending Surgeon, Pediatric Ophthalmology Service

This activity has been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

1. Provide a comprehensive review of topics in ophthalmology including: Optics and Refraction; Antomy and Embryology; Retina and Vitreous; Ocular Pathology; Orbit, Eyelid and Lacrimal System; Pharmacology and Therapeutics; Ocular Tumors; Neuro-Ophthalmology; Corneal and External Diseases; Uveitis and AIDS; Glaucoma; Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus; CT and MRI Imaging of Eye and Orbit.
2. Better understand the pathophysiology of most ophthalmic disease.
3. Perform appropriate diagnostic tests and differential diagnosis for most ophthalmic diseases.

AMA PRA Statement
Wills Eye Hospital designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 45.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Hotel room blocks are available at the Philadelphia Marriott Old City at 1 Dock Street, Philadelphia PA, 19106.

Click Here to book your room at the group rate. 

The last day to book your room at this rate will be February 2, 2024.

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.