We Offer Medical Education
For Optometrists
Focus on Education
Each year the Foundation and the Price Vision Group sponsor an all-day seminar for optometrists that features programming on the latest treatments and surgeries available for the anterior segment of the eye and cornea. Attendees earn approved continuing education credits while learning about the newest ophthalmological medical devices, pharmaceuticals, and practice management techniques.
The Focus on Education seminar will be held on Saturday, November 12, 2011. Discount overnight accommodations are available at the Homewood Suites by calling 317- 253-1919. Please indicate that you are attending a Price Vision Group program to receive the discount. To register and pay online click here. Register over the phone up until November 11th at noon by calling Jessica Dingledy at 317-814-2993.
7:30-8:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:00-9:00 Age-Related Macular Degeneration
David Poer, M.D.
Cope 28962-PS (1hr OLDPAC)
9:00-10:00 Herbal Products & Dietary Supplements:
Impact to Eye Health
Tracy Costello, PharmD, BCPS
Cope 32618-PH (1hr OLDPAC)
Break
10:00-12:00 Glaucoma: What’s New?
Randy Craven, M.D.
Cope 32022-GL (2hr OLDPAC)
Lunch Provided
1:00-2:00 Innovations in the Treatment of Allergic Conjunctivitis
Mitchell A Jackson, M.D.
Cope 32620-AS (1hr OLDPAC)
Break
2:00-3:00 Update of Cornea and Anterior Segment Surgery
Francis W. Price, Jr., M.D.
Cope 32621-AS (1hr OLDPAC)
3:00-4:00 Cornea – Back to Basics
Larry Tenkman, M.D.
Cope 32619-AS (1hr OLDPAC)
For Ophthalmologists
Advanced Cornea Courses
These Courses are experiential programs to familiarize ophthalmic surgeons with advances in the latest advances in corneal transplant techniques. For the past eight years, the CRFA and the Price Vision Group have hosted one and two-day training courses featuring new surgical techniques for corneal transplantation. Doctors from some of the most prominent eye centers in the United States have come to Indianapolis to take part in DSEK, DMEK, ALK and PPV courses which include live surgery and wet lab.
Endothelial keratoplasty offers more rapid visual recovery and eliminates sutures for corneal transplants. It especially benefits those with Fuchs’ Corneal Dystrophy and cloudy corneas after cataract surgery. Early versions of the surgery were called a variety of names including Posterior Lamellar Grafts (PLK) or Deep Lamellar Endothelial Keratoplasty (DLEK). Dr. Price has done more of these procedures than any other surgeon in the world and has recently been perfecting ultra-thin Descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty (DMEK and DMAEK) graft techniques that produce even more dramatic visual recovery than Descemet’s Stripping with Endothelial Keratoplasty (DSEK). He is an excellent teacher who willingly shares possible complications and ways to handle them.
Here’s what a few of the recent Advanced Cornea Course participants have said about their experiences:
“It is rare to find a surgeon as forthright and knowledgeable as Dr. Price. His depth of experience and his willingness to share both technique “pearls” and complicated cases was extremely helpful. Any surgeon contemplating DSEK should attend.”
Dr. Henry L. Milne, The Eye Center of Pennsylvania
“The course materials facilitated my understanding, and Dr. Price was knowledgeable, well prepared and articulate. His staff was helpful and courteous and the course was well organized.”
Dr. Roy Chuck, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center, Wilmer Eye Institute
“Very informative, practical and to the point.”
Dr. Richard Yee, Herman Eye Center
