With more and more customers needing multifocals, and more and more people using computers, the optical dispenser must have a knowledge of Computer Vision Syndrome also known as (CVS) and how to help their customers with modern lens designs.

Instructor: Debra R. White, MSEd, ABOM, FCLSA

Presbyopia... An optical problem you don’t want to keep at arm’s length...
Today’s presbyopic market is booming, and optical opportunities for growth will folloThis course outlines progressive lens design parameters and how technology has impacted lens design opportunities. Upon identifying the onset of presbyopia, we will begin with introducing and identifying PAL design parameters including but not limited to mono/multi, symmetric/asymmetric and others. Matching optical problems with appropriate solutions will be included as well as identifying excessive cylinder/unwanted surface astigmatic error and their ratios to add powers. Fitting considerations and helpful fitting/dispensing tips are also included.

Instuctor: Laurie Pierce, LDO, ABOM

This course addresses various concerns regarding transmission, prevention, occupational risk, and laws related to HIV/AIDS. The State of Florida, Board of Opticianry requires that newly licensed opticians complete one hour of HIV/AIDS education during their first renewal period that they are required to complete education. This course meets that requirement.

All other opticains are welcome to take this course for one hour of elective credit toward their license renewal.

This course is a detailed overview of photochromic lenses. From café variables to photochromics … we’ve come a long way. Once used for the practical purposes of one pair only, today’s variable tinted lenses fit in with lifestyle dispensing and multiple pairs.

Instructor: Laurie Pierce, LDO, ABOM

This two hour Reduction of Medical Errors course looks at the common causes and costs associated with medical errors, and identify the ways to avoid future errors.
Sucessful completion of this course the State of Florida's educational requirement for Reduction of Medical Errors by healthcare providers.

Instructor: Laurie Pierce, LDO, ABOM

Use this CE course to better understand the sunwear opportunity and, more specifically, the advantages that polarized lenses provide to patients and your practice. Proper presentation of sunwear options and benefits improves patient satisfaction and loyalty while improving your reputation as a total eyecare provider.

Instructor: David Rips, Younger Optics

By understanding astigmatism and explaining it to your patients you will be doing two things. You will help your patients to finally understand a term that they have heard for years. More importantly, you will be elevating your position from a frame salesperson to a professional. Your patients will view you as more knowledgeable and more caring because you took the time to evaluate their prescription and explain it to them.

Instructor: R. Joe Simmons, LDO, ABOM

What if you could choose lens materials for each patient by having the lens materials audition for their part in the eyewear? They’d have to really sing and dance to get the part. In each case, you’d be able to have them describe their talent, the reason they are best for this part and how they could make their wearer smile and enjoy their performance. Soooo...let’s meet those auditioning.

Instructor: Michael DiSanto, Independent Industry Trainer

There’s much more to “free-form” (FF) than just the progressive lenses that you have begun to use. Free-form is a process that is used to manufacture wide varieties of lenses: single vision,aspherics, atorics, bifocals and specialty lenses in addition to progressives.

Instructor: By Michael Walach, president and founder of Quest Optical Specialty Lab in Largo, Fla.

Free-form surfacing, also referred to as direct or digital surfacing,refers to a process that is capable of producing complex surface shapes, including aspheric, atoric and even progressive addition surfaces.

Instructor: Darryl Meister, Certified Master Optician and technical marketing manager for Carl Zeiss Vision

Keratoconus is an ocular disorder characterized by progressive corneal thinning and other corneal sequelae, in which the cornea assumes an irregular conical shape. It can be classified according to degree of conicity and characterized morphologically by the shape of the cone.

Instructor: Alex Cannella, RN, FCLSA

The presbyopic population is growing exponentially. This course is intended to explain the various screening methods currently available to assist in identifying the presbyopic patient’s visual as well as environmental needs.

Instuctor: Jane S. Buckland, FCLSA(H), NCLE(AC)