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Stay Informed: COVID-19

The AOA is closely monitoring developments and actively providing COVID-19 updates to ensure doctors of optometry and the public have the latest information available.

2021 Virtual AOA on Capitol Hill

The single-largest annual advocacy event and centerpiece of optometry’s federal advocacy efforts, Virtual AOA on Capitol Hill, returns to its digital format, May 23-25, with new priorities that could address the immediate needs of optometry practices nationwide.

Contact Lens Rule Compliance Toolkit

While the enforcement of new amendments to the Rule are delayed, doctors must continue to adhere to the long standing Fairness to Contact Lens Consumers Act (FCLCA) requirement to provide patients with a copy of their contact lens prescription following completion of the contact lens fitting.

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AOA MORE, optometry’s data registry, takes yearlong pause

The AOA will use the time to evaluate its collection efforts and create a registry for the future that is most useful to improving eye health and vision care. The AOA launched the registry in 2015.

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Inside Optometry

Who are you? AOA is letting America know

AOA’s public health observance calls out the bait-and-switch of online vision tests with a campaign emphasizing why there is no substitute for in-person eye health care with a doctor of optometry.

AOA News
Inside Optometry

Developing a new generation of optometric leaders

In a virtual kick-off, the AOA launches Leadership Institute with 130 doctors of optometry from across the country. A project of the AOA Leadership Development Committee, the Institute is a yearlong program designed to grow and support the next generation of leaders in the profession.

AOA News
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
February 21 - May 26, 2021
POA Looking Forward 2021 Webinar Series
POA - Pennsylvania Optometric Association
March 7, 2021
Pennsylvania Act 31 Child Abuse Reporting Mandatory Training
Virtual
March 25 - 28, 2021
My Vision Show Growth Summit
Virtual

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