Systemic Disease

Ocular Manifestations of Autoimmune Diseases: How to Understand and Identify

Optometrists have a key role to play when it comes to the overall health of their patients.
05/15/2024

Comanaging Outside of Eye Care: Recognize These Systemic Risks

Learn how to trade expertise with doctors in other medical disciplines for the betterment of your shared patients.
10/15/2022

Making the Connection: Sleep Disorders, Ocular Effects

Stay up to date on the association between the two and how to proceed accordingly.
10/15/2022

How Hypertension and Stroke Affect the Eye

ODs play a vital role in protecting patients from both chronic and acute vascular events. Here’s what to look for and how to react.
10/15/2022

A Complete Analysis of COVID-19 and the Eye

From past to present, we review the impact of this disease on our patients.
10/15/2022

The Eye/Kidney Connection

Be vigilant for the ocular presentations of oculoretinal syndromes and renal disease.
09/15/2021

Vaccines and Vulnerable Eyes: What to Look For

Rare but on the rise, conditions that could be prevented by inoculation should be part of your differential.
03/15/2021

Vaccines and Vulnerable Eyes: What to Look For

Rare but on the rise, conditions that could be prevented by inoculation should be part of your differential.
03/15/2021

Racing the Rundle Against Thyroid Eye Disease

A new clinical approach to this condition may give patients a fighting chance at recovery.
06/15/2020

The Optometrist and Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Learn to keep your snoring patients’ increased risk of disease from keeping you up at night.
08/15/2019

Upcoming Events

December 5, 2024

Rethinking Dry Eye Disease: A Contemporary Approach to a Complex Condition
Location: Virtual
Presenters: Nate Lighthizer, OD, and Dagny Zhu, MD
Webinar: 9:00pm ET

Sponsored by Bausch + Lomb

Register here

December 6-7, 2024

West Coast Optometric Glaucoma Symposium
Location: Westin Carlsbad, Carlsbad, California
Program Co-Chairs: Murray Fingeret, OD, and Robert N. Weinreb, MD
Earn up to 12 LIVE COPE Credits (accreditation pending)

Register here

December 7-8, 2024

Retina Update 2024
Location: Westin Carlsbad, Carlsbad, California
Program Chairs: Mohammad Rafieetary, OD, and Steven Ferrucci, OD
Earn up to 11 LIVE COPE credits (accreditation pending)

Register here

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