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Clinical Eye Care

‘High sight’ impairs contrast sensitivity, visual acuity

New study details the adverse effects on certain visual functions immediately following marijuana use.

Diseases and Conditions
Clinical Eye Care

Feds accelerate COVID-19 vaccination pace, AOA offers vaccinators’ webinar

U.S. health authorities spur next phase of COVID-19 vaccination rollout, dramatically expanding supply and administration sites, as optometry explores going from vaccinated to vaccinator.

Public Health
Advocacy

President Biden extends AOA-, AOSA-backed federal student loan relief through September

With a stroke of a pen, new President Joe Biden extended the moratorium on repayment of federal student loans through Sept. 30, 2021. With the average optometry student’s loan debt at graduation being close to $200,000, the AOA and the American Optometric Student Association (AOSA) are working to ensure concerns of students and doctors of optometry are front and center.

Federal Advocacy
June 24 - 26, 2021
Optometry’s Meeting®
Anaheim, CA
Optometry’s Meeting®—the annual meeting of the AOA and AOSA—is where all of optometry joins together for engaging discussions, peerless education and valuable networking. Doctors, optometric professionals, students and industry come together to further optometry and the business of the association at the House of Delegates; to provide quality and engaging education for doctors and optometry professionals; to showcase exhibits of the latest ophthalmic goods and services; and bring together colleagues to build and continue relationships.
Event Details
January 26, 2021
Indiana Optometry Presents Pain Management in Optometric Practice in an Era of Opioid Abuse
Virtual
February 5 - 7, 2021
MOA Virtual Winter Seminar
Virtual
February 7, 2021
Ocular Pharmacology
Virtual

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