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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.

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Submit lecture and workshop courses for inclusion in Optometry’s Meeting® 2021, AOA’s 2021 Virtual Learning Livecast and AOA’s EyeLearn Professional Development Hub. All applications must be submitted online by Nov. 1.

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Clinical Eye Care

Contact lens innovation delivers opportunity

Going the extra mile: That’s what sets doctors apart from online retailers, especially in the contact lens space. As technology advances, the range of available options makes it easier than ever to serve existing patients and identify new ones.

Diseases and Conditions
Advocacy

Contact Lens Rule bill gains senators’ backing after all-out advocacy campaign

Over 7,400 individual constituent letters were sent via AOA’s Action Center and countless phone calls placed to senators’ offices, in what represents the AOA’s largest advocacy campaign in recent history.

Federal Advocacy
Advocacy

AOA spearheads conditions for evolution of telemedicine technology

AOA Board of Trustees adopts Oct. 16 recommendations of its Telehealth Council, which consulted leaders in the technology platform, artificial intelligence, and eye health and vision care in a nearly yearlong reimagination of the 2017 AOA policy.

Patient Protection
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
November 3 - 4, 2020
Diabetic Retinopathy
Online Virtual
November 3, 2020
Tales from the Crib: 7 Infant Case Reports
Online Virtual
November 6 - 8, 2020
GOA Fall All-Star Weekend
Virtual

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