Doctor's Course Schedule for HVOS Fall Seminar

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Course Descriptions:

Course #1 - 1 Hour - COPE pending
How New Computer 3-D Imagery Can Help Improve Your Diagnosis
With the advent of OCT imagery, diagnosis of many retinal and optic nerve head conditions have come under new imagery appearances. Spectral domain is allowing computer generated 3-D imagery and the diagnostic attributes will greatly add to our ability to diagnose and understand many intraocular entities. The 3-D imagery helps immensely in the detection of glaucoma.

Course #2 - 2 Hours - COPE 20949-PS 12-1-10
New Technologies to Detect Retinal/Choroidal Disease
The course will discuss new technologies to detect retinal and choroidal diseases. Technologies to be discussed are: scanning laser ophthalmoscope (SLO), optical coherence tomography, preferential hyperacuity perimetry (PHP), and kinetic field test (KFT).. Emphasis will be placed on the use of SLO, OCT, and PHP. Topics to be covered are: macular holes, retinal tears, retinal detachment, congenital and acquired pigment epithelial hypertrophy and hyperplasia, retinoschisis, choroidal nevus and melanoma, diabetic retinopathy, macular edema, dry and wet AMD, and more.

Course #3 - 2 Hours - COPE # 17788-PS 12-1-2009
Vitreo-macular, -retina, and -disc traction. What every eye doctor should know
The course will discuss vitreo-macular, vitreo-retinal, and vitreo-disc traction. There will be an extensive discussion on the pathophysiology of a PVD and will include partial and total PVDs. OCT allows for a view of the vitreous and retina never seen clinically before. There is vitreous traction on the macula, retina, and disc long before and long after a PVD. The type and extent of this traction is just now being understood. Complications to be discussed are: macular disruption, epiretinal membrane formation, macular hole, macular edema, and serous tractional detachment. The vitreous traction will be examined by ocular coherence tomography and ultrasonography. A discussion of the proper method of following an acute PVD will be provided. Vitrectomy will be briefly covered.

Course #4 - 2 Hours - COPE pending
Diagnosis of Anomalies of the Optic Nerve
Diagnosis of anomalies of the optic nerve head is important in the care of our patients. Even though most of the conditions to be discussed are stable and usually do not cause great harm to the patient's sight; proper management is required in following and counseling these patients. The course will begin with the anatomy of the optic nerve, which will include histological slides. Next developmental anomalies of the optic nerve head will be discussed. The anomalies to be presented are: medullated nerve fibers, Bergmeister's papilla, anomalous disc vessels, cilioretinal vessels, hypoplastic discs, colobomas, optic pits, tilted discs and large physiologic disc cupping. Acquired anomalies to be presented are: intrapapillary drusen, melanocytomas, myopic changes with tilted discs and peripapillary crescents. Many histopathological examples, visual field analysis studies will be presented, and never seen before OCT images.