MAYopia Day - Session 4 - The next generation - myopia controlling spectacle lenses
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Interactive CPD points: 1
Clinical interest in myopia continues to grow with an increasing range of options available to manage its progression and help mitigate for the risks associated with the condition.
This event offers a full day of education delivered by experts from around the world offering key insights on the evidence-based management of myopia in clinical practice.
The programme has seven live webinars, each offering one interactive CPD point. Delegates are invited to attend the full programme or choose individual sessions based upon their clinical interests.
Session one: Driving change to put the brakes on myopia
Session two: Repeated low-level red light therapy – shining the light on myopia
Session three: A patient-centred approach to myopia management – what’s changed in the last 12 months?
Session four: The next generation – myopia controlling spectacle lenses
Session five: Communicating with patients and monitoring the progression of myopia in optometric practice
Session six: Busting the myopia myths
Session seven: Science of compliance – the importance of a flexible approach to managing myopia
MAYopia Day - Session 4 - The next generation - myopia controlling spectacle lenses
The latest generation of myopia management spectacle lens designs appear to slow myopia progression in children at least as well as other interventions such as orthokeratology, dual-focus soft contact lenses and 0.05% atropine. This lecture will describe the optical design of these spectacle lenses and outline research papers which describe outcomes for efficacy and visual function. The lecture will conclude with clinical pathways for prescribing spectacle lenses for myopia management.
Learning outcomes
- Practitioners will be able to explain to patients about the use of myopia management spectacle lenses
- Practitioners will be updated on the evidence base relating to spectacle lens designs for myopia management
1.00PM - 2.00PM
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1 point
Webinar: The next generation - myopia controlling spectacle lenses
CPD ref no: C-105297
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Dr Kate Gifford
Dr Kate Gifford is an internationally renowned clinician-scientist optometrist and peer educator, and a visiting research fellow at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. She holds a PhD in contact lens optics in myopia, four professional fellowships, over 90 peer-reviewed and professional publications and has presented more than 200 conference lectures.
Kate is chair of the Clinical Management Guidelines Committee of the International Myopia Institute and lead author on the landmark 2019 paper and 2021 digest by that committee. In 2016, Kate and her optometrist husband Dr Paul Gifford co-founded Myopia Profile, a world-leading educational platform on childhood myopia management. After running her paediatric, contact lens and myopia specialty practice in the Brisbane for 13 years, Kate moved full time into peer education through Myopia Profile in 2020.