The continuing education courses presented by the IU School of Optometry offer a wide range of educational opportunities for optometrists. These courses are designed to help practitioners fulfill their educational requirements for license renewal.

Course credit hours are listed for each individual day. Courses are to be taken on a full-day basis; no adjustments will be made for partial days. Unless otherwise noted, the courses will run from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. with an hour for lunch. Attendance will be recorded on the ARBO OE Tracker.

Transcript Quality Credit will be available for each course. If participants want this credit, they should make it known when they check in. Transcript Quality exams will be mailed to practitioners who request them, and practitioners should then mail completed exams back to the school. Cost for Transcript Quality Credit is $10 per credit hour.

All courses are submitted for COPE approval.

Attention Indiana-licensed optometrists: The number of IOB continuing education hours required per licensure period is 20. Optometrists maintaining a legend drug certificate must obtain 20 IOB hours and an additional 20 therapeutics/pharmacology (formerly OLDPAC) hours for a total of 40 hours every 2 years. Therapeutics COPE categories are GL, PO, RS, PD, SD, AS, PS, and NO. All categories (including the therapeutics categories) EXCEPT the practice maintenance type courses PM and EJ are acceptable toward IOB credits. (In other states, please check with your state board for specific requirements.)

Questions? Contact Sue Gilmore at the IU School of Optometry.

Saturday, July 12, 2008
Variety Weekend: Day 1
COPE approval pending (2 hours IOB only, 4 hours IOB/therapeutics) -- $150
9:00 am to 12:00 noon / 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Location: IU School of Optometry; Bloomington, IN

• Vision and deafness (2 hrs, IOB only) -- Dr. Andrew Baker
• Update on premium and phakic IOLs (2 hrs, IOB/therapeutics) -- Dr. Kevin Waltz
• Glaucoma care: tools of the trade (1 hr, IOB/therapeutics) -- Dr. Brad Sutton
• Posterior segment case reports (1 hr, IOB/therapeutics) -- Dr. Brad Sutton

Sunday, July 13, 2008
Variety Weekend: Day 2
COPE approval pending (6 hours IOB/therapeutics) -- $150
9:00 am to 12:00 noon / 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Location: IU School of Optometry; Bloomington, IN

• Hypertension for the primary care practitioner (1 hr, IOB/therapeutics) -- Dr. Tiffenie Harris
• Get the angle on gonioscopy (1 hr, IOB/therapeutics) -- Dr. Tiffenie Harris
• The case study of a complicated diabetic patient with multiple endocrine disorders (1 hr, IOB/therapeutics) -- Dr. Jerry Lowther
• Overview of adenovirus testing (1 hr, IOB/therapeutics) -- Dr. Khash Tonekaboni
• Sneeze and wheeze: an allergy review (1 hr, IOB/therapeutics) -- Dr. Kim Kohne
• Herpetic eye disease (1 hr, IOB/therapeutics) -- Dr. Brad Sutton

Saturday, July 26, 2008
Glaucoma Day
COPE approval pending (6 hours IOB/therapeutics) -- $150
9:00 am to 12:00 noon / 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Location: IU School of Optometry; Bloomington, IN

• The top ten glaucoma questions (2 hrs, IOB/therapeutics) -- Dr. Vic Malinovsky
• Glaucoma and ocular blood flow (2 hrs, IOB/therapeutics) -- Dr. Melanie Pickett
• Glaucomatous visual field loss (1 hr, IOB/therapeutics) -- Dr. Patricia Henderson
• Visual field grand rounds (1 hr, IOB/therapeutics) -- Dr. Patricia Henderson

Sunday, July 27, 2008
Pediatrics Day
COPE approval pending (5 hours IOB only, 1 hour IOB/therapeutics) -- $150
9:00 am to 12:00 noon / 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Location: IU School of Optometry; Bloomington, IN

• Binocular vision anomalies in a primary care setting (1 hr, IOB only) -- Dr. Kate Gray
• Examination and management of populations with special needs (2 hrs, IOB only) -- Drs. Rowan Candy and Don Lyon
• Vision and learning in the primary optometric practice (1 hr, IOB only) -- Ms. Paula Jarrard
• Controversies in amblyopia therapy (1 hr, IOB only) -- Dr. David Hunter
• Medical and surgical management of nystagmus (1 hr, IOB/therapeutics) -- Dr. David Hunter

Saturday, August 16, 2008
Low Vision Rehabilitation and Trauma Day
COPE approval pending (3 hours IOB only, 3 hours IOB/therapeutics) -- $150
9:00 am to 12:00 noon / 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Location: IU School of Optometry; Bloomington, IN

• It's all fun and games until somebody loses an eye (2 hrs, IOB/therapeutics) -- Dr. Jane Ann Grogg
• Driving with hemi's (1 hr, IOB only) -- Dr. Kevin Houston
• Both halves of hemianopsia: neurological disorder and vision rehabilitation (1 hr, IOB/therapeutics) -- Dr. Elli Kollbaum
• A practical guide for prescribing near magnification for low vision patients (1 hr, IOB only) -- Dr. Shirin Hassan
• Low vision rehabilitation grand rounds (1 hr, IOB only) -- Drs. Elli Kollbaum, Kevin Houston, and Shirin Hassan

Sunday, August 17, 2008
Retina Day
COPE approval pending (1 hour IOB only, 5 hours IOB/therapeutics) -- $150
9:00 am to 12:00 noon / 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Location: IU School of Optometry; Bloomington, IN

• Retinal update 2008 (2 hrs, IOB/therapeutics) -- Dr. Tom Ciulla
• How damage to the retina can be seen with polarized light (1 hr, IOB/therapeutics) -- Dr. Ann Elsner
• Doing live histology in the human retina using advanced optics (1 hr, IOB/therapeutics) -- Dr. Stephen Burns
• Perimetry for the 21st century: how we got here and where we are headed (1 hr, IOB/therapeutics) -- Dr. William Swanson
• Optics and visual consequences of novel contact lens and IOL designs (1 hr, IOB only) -- Dr. Arthur Bradley

Monday, August 18, 2008
Contact Lenses Day
COPE approval pending (5 hours IOB only, 1 hour IOB/therapeutics) -- $150
9:00 am to 12:00 noon / 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Location: IU School of Optometry; Bloomington, IN

• Contact lens update 2008 (3 hrs, IOB only) -- Dr. Neil Pence
• Contact lens related dry eye management (1 hr, IOB/therapeutics) -- Dr. Susan Kovacich
• Dk and beyond: silicone hydrogel applications (2 hrs, IOB only) -- Drs. Susan Kovacich and Neil Pence

Saturday, November 8, 2008 (tentative)
Location: IU School of Optometry; Bloomington, IN

Tentative depending upon football game: 2-hour CE lecture to be announced.

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Daily fees are listed with each course. Fees will be accepted for a full day only. Lunch is included with each registration. No partial course registration will be accepted. No partial refunds or carryover of fees to another day will be given. In order to receive a refund of a registration fee, cancellations must be received 24 hours prior to the date of the seminar.

Checks should be made payable to Indiana University and sent (along with registration form) to:

Budget Office
IU School of Optometry
800 E. Atwater Ave.
Bloomington, IN 47405-3680

MasterCard, VISA, and Discover Card are also accepted.

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All courses (unless otherwise noted) will be held at the Indiana University School of Optometry. Parking is available in the Atwater garage (located at the northeast corner across the street from the IU School of Optometry) or in the parking lot directly across Atwater Avenue from the school. Parking is free in the garage on weekends. Parking stickers will be available at registration for courses held on weekdays. You must pick up a parking sticker (available at registration) for weekday parking before entering the garage.

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