Berkeley In Focus
Join us for a four-hour, live online continuing education series focused on Specialty Contact Lenses. Our speakers will provide an overview of covering scleral lens advancements, presbyopic and pediatric fittings, and specialty contact lens billing. Earn four COPE-accredited CE hours for this program (COPE accreditation pending).
Event Details
Date: Sunday, March 2, 2025Time: 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Cost: $120
Speakers & Topics
Top Row: Maria Walker, OD, PhD & Matt Lampa, OD, FAAO
Bottom Row: Melanie Frogozo, OD, FSLS, FAAO, Dipl AAO & Jeff Krohn, OD
ONLINE 8:00 AM, Sunday, March 2, 2024
Maria Walker, OD, PhD
Assistant Professor, University of Houston, College of Optometry
1 CE hour
COPE Course Pending Approval
This lecture will review recent publications on scleral lenses and focus on what they can teach us about the health and function of the ocular surface in scleral lens wearers.
ONLINE 9:00 AM, Sunday, March 2, 2024
Matt Lampa, OD, FAAO
Professor, Pacific University of Oregon
1 CE hour
COPE Course Pending Approval
This course will examine the issue of how today’s presbyopic patient is managed with contact lenses. This course is intended to boost your confidence with fitting contact lenses by improving your understanding of the various lens designs and their inherent limitations. It will describe the designs of contemporary contact lenses and the fitting philosophies behind each of them. Also to be discussed will be ways to identify various vision complaints associated with contact lenses and how to take a more scientific approach to resolving them.
ONLINE 10:00 AM, Sunday, March 2, 2024
Melanie Frogozo, OD, FSLS, FAAO, Dipl AAO
Alamo eye Care Center, San Antonio Texas
1 CE hour
COPE Course Pending Approval
ONLINE 11:00 AM, Sunday, March 2, 2024
Jeff Krohn, OD
Assistant Professor of Health Sciences
University of California Berkeley
Herbert Wertheim School of Optometry and Vision Sciences
1 CE hour
COPE Course Pending Approval
This course presents strategies for effectively and properly selecting the proper level of service(s) and diagnoses when providing care to patients requiring specialty / visually or medically necessary / contact lenses.
Registration
Registration is OPEN NOW at the link below. Registration closes February 28, 2025.
REGISTERContinuing Education Credits
Four CE hours will be available for the full, COPE-accredited Berkeley In Focus Series (COPE Activity #PENDING). This program will place via Zoom webinar, allowing attendees to interact with the speaker and ask questions in real-time. The program is classified as a “Synchronous Virtual” course format by COPE, so post-course tests were not required.
This activity meets the live, interactive CE coursework requirements of the California State Board of Optometry. Depending on individual state board requirements, the “Synchronous Virtual” course format type may or may not have counted as ‘Live’ credit, and attendees were encouraged to verify with their state board.
Please note: Partial attendance of a COPE course does not count towards COPE CE.
Daily CE Breakdown*
Bridging Research and Practice: Implementing Scleral Lens Advancement in Clinical Care
COPE Course TBD
1 CE Hour (MISC)
CL Fitting for Presbyopia
COPE Course TBD
1 CE Hour (MISC)
Sustaining Happy Specialty Lens Patients By Understanding and Delivering Dry Eye Disease Treatment
COPE Course TBD
1 CE Hour (TPA)
Specialty CL and Billing: Do the right thing and get paid for it
COPE Course TBD
1 CE Hour (MISC)
*Total CE hours subject to change
Questions?
View our Frequently Asked Questions page for information on registration, CE credit guidelines, certification letters, cancellations, and refunds.