MAYopia Day - Session 6 - Busting the myopia myths
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Interactive CPD points: 1
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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 6 - Busting the Myopia myths
Myopia management is one of the most exciting and innovative areas of eye care today. This talk outlines the evidence surrounding the magnitude of the public health issue of myopia and the personal health and emotional impacts on our patients. The latest science behind the management of myopia will be presented and long-held practitioner beliefs on treatment efficacy and vision quality, potential rebound effects and challenges to paediatric contact lens wear will be dispelled. Exciting revolutionary new technology in a prototype soft contact lens for myopia management will be unveiled.
Learning outcome
- Practitioners will understand the public health implications of myopia and be able to take an evidence-based approach to managing the condition in practice
3.45PM - 4.45PM
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1 point
Webinar: Busting the myopia myths
CPD ref no: C-105300
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Dr Monica Jong
Dr Monica Jong is the global director of professional education, myopia at Johnson & Johnson Vision where she leads practitioner education initiatives around the world to support evidence-based myopia management.
She was the former executive director of the International Myopia Institute, an organisation she helped to co-found. In this role Monica led the development of white papers and key initiatives to bring consensus to the field of myopia management by bringing together leading researchers, clinicians, educators, policymakers and public health experts. Today these key white papers are utilised by peak health bodies and professional eye care associations worldwide.
Monica has published numerous peer-reviewed articles in high impact journals in the areas of epidemiology, high myopia and clinical trials. She co-created the first global online education program in myopia at the Brien Holden Vision Institute. She was also the scientific secretary of the World Health Organization (WHO) meeting on myopia in 2015 and co-authored the WHO report on the Impact of Myopia and High Myopia. Monica was the former secretary of the Refractive Error Working group of the International Agency for Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) and contributed to position papers and advocacy initiatives in refractive error.
Monica has practised optometry in private and corporate, rural and urban settings as well as public health. She is passionate about research and education and continues to mentor graduate students from developing and developed countries. Monica has presented at more than 400 global scientific and practitioner meetings.