October 2-5 - Missouri Optometric Association

October 2-5
University Plaza
Hotel & Convention Center
Springfield, MO
WELCOME
LeeAnn Barrett, OD
MOA Executive Director
Hello, everyone! We’re glad you decided to Bet on Optometry
by joining us at our 2014 MOA Annual Conference. It’s not a
gamble to say we’ve got a wide range of continuing education
classes designed with your practice in mind. And it’s a
sure bet that our exhibit hall that is packed with great new
products and services. It’s your once a year opportunity to
network, connect with friends, and advance your profession,
so make the most of it. On behalf to the MOA leadership,
have a terrific weekend!
Jim Hunt, OD
MOA President
Thank you, MOA members, for making it such a wonderful
year for me serving as your President. You have welcomed
me to your society meetings and shared your aspirations for
the profession of optometry in the great state of Missouri!
From my point of view, it’s easy to see why you should
Bet on Optometry! Enjoy your weekend here at the MOA
conference, and take advantage of all the best things—
continuing education, networking, new products, and
more—that optometry has to offer.
Jason Lake, OD
Convention Planning Chair
Welcome to our 2014 Missouri Optometric Association
Annual Conference, where once again the MOA reminds
you to always Bet on Optometry! We’re kicking things off
with a great golf tournament location, followed by exciting
continuing education opportunities for OD, paras, and
optometric students. You’ll also discover an exhibit hall that’s
full of new products and services. It’s been a year in the
planning that has paid off! Enjoy the show!
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LEADERS
Officers
President — James Hunt, OD
President-Elect — Scott Burks, OD
Treasurer — Jeffrey Gamble, OD
Secretary — Jason Lake, OD
Immediate Past President — John Gelvin, OD
Optometric Society Trustees
Central — Chris DeRose, OD
Greater Ozark — Kory Scullawl, OD
Kansas City — Alan Wegener, OD
Northeast — Mindy Blackford, OD
Northwest — Brandon Lorenz, OD
Southeast — Dan Obermark, OD
Southwest — Justin Stilley, OD
St. Louis — Thomas Cullinane, OD
St. Louis — Robert Goerss, OD
West Central — Kyle Johnson, OD
Committee Chairs
Administrative Services — Sally Bodenhamer, OD
Affiliated Organizations — Joe Rich, OD
Clinical / Educational — Mary Beth Rhomberg, OD
Coordinating Committee — Jim Hunt, OD
Convention Planning — Jason Lake, OD
Governmental Affairs — Kyle Brost, OD & Mark Curtis OD
Membership Services — Kylie Divine, OD
Public Relations — Wes Kemp, OD
Third Party Payments — Scott Ream, OD
Central Office Staff
Executive Director — LeeAnn Barrett, OD
Director of Government Relations — Jay Hahn
Finance / Membership Director — Sue Brown
Governmental Relations Consultants — J Scott Marrs & Jerry W Burch
Legal Counsel — Marc Ellinger
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LOCATIONS
Conference at a Glance
OD Events —Kansas/Oklahoma
Para Events —Illinois / Dissection —Texas
Exhibit Hall —Convention Center
Presidential Reception — Foyer
Presidential Banquet — Georgia/Arizona
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THURSDAY
Optometrists
11:30am - 12:30pm
Millwood Golf & Players Lunch at the Club House
Racket Club
12:30pm - 5:30pm
Millwood Golf & MOA Annual Golf Tournament
Racket Club
4:00pm - 7:00pm
8:30pm - 9:30pm
Foyer
Registration
MOSA Student Worker Meeting
Thank You
2014 Conference Planning Committee
Dr. Jason Lake, Chair
Dr. MaryBeth Rhomberg —Continuing Education
Dr. Jason Lake —Entertainment
Dr. Tom Cullinane — Golf, Exhibits, Sponsorship
Coleen Nott,PARA Representative
Karen Rice — MOAA Representative
Elizabeth Phillips —MOSA Representative
Dr. LeeAnn Barrett, MOA Executive Director
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FRIDAY
Optometrists
7:00am - 5:00pm
Foyer
Registration
7:30am—9:20am
COPE: 41084GL
Kansas
Oklahoma
9:30am—10:45am
Convention
Center
10:15am—11:05am
COPE: 41083GL
Kansas
Oklahoma
IOP Dependent and Independent
Mechanisms in Glaucoma: What
is the Science?
10:15am—12:15pm
Arkansas
MOSA Lecture:
An Eye Toward Your Banking
Glaucoma: Clinical Pearls
for Challenging Cases
Michael Chaglasian, OD
Exhibit Hall Open — Coffee & Rolls
Michael Chaglasian, OD
UMB Bank
Glaucoma Management and
Ocular Surface Disease
11:15am—12:15pm
COPE: 40918GL
Kansas
Oklahoma
12:15pm—2:45pm
Convention
Center
Exhibit Hall Open — Luncheon
2:45pm - 4:15pm
Kansas
Oklahoma
MOA Business Meeting
4:15pm - 6:00pm
Convention
Center
Exhibit Hall Open — Reception
6:00pm-7:00pm
John Q’s
6:00pm-7:00pm
Champions Club
Hammons Field
7:00pm
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Michael Chaglasian, OD
UMSL College of Optometry Reception
Vision Source Reception
Dinner on Your Own
FRIDAY
Paraoptometric Section
Note: ABO & CPC Certificates will be
Distributed at the end of each class.
7:00am - 5:00pm
Foyer
Registration
8:00am - 10:00am
ABO | CPC
Illinois
Marketing Benefits,
Not Products
9:30am - 10:45am
Convention
Center
10:45am - 12:45pm
ABO | CPC
Illinois
10:45am - 12:45pm
Sharon Carter
Exhibit Hall Open — Coffee & Rolls
Insurance Filing / Insurance
Verification and Filing
Sharon Carter
Texas
Ocular Anatomy
and Dissection Lab
Jeff Gamble, OD
12:15pm - 2:45pm
Convention
Center
2:45pm - 4:45pm
CPC
Illinois
4:15pm - 6:00pm
Convention
Center
6:00pm-7:00pm
Champions Club
Hammons Field
7:00pm
Exhibit Hall Open — Luncheon
Vision Therapy 101:
What is it? Who needs it?
Susan Lake, OD
Exhibit Hall Open — Reception
Vision Source Reception
Dinner on Your Own
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SATURDAY
7:00am - 12:00pm
Optometrists
Foyer
7:00am - 8:00am
Tanneycomo
7:30am - 9:30am
Lake of the Ozarks
8:00am - 10:00am
Kansas
Oklahoma
COPE: 42515NO / CEE
10:00am - 11:00Am
COPE: 37772FV
Kansas
Oklahoma
Registration
Past Presidents’ Breakfast
Industry Alliance Breakfast & Meeting
Management of the
Acquired Brain Injury Patient
Kia Eldred-McGee, OD
Management of Acquired
Binocular Vision Disorders in
the Adult Population
Kia Eldred-McGee, OD
11:00am - 12:00pm
COPE: 41855OP
1:00pm - 2:00pm
2:45pm - 3:45pm
Kansas
Oklahoma
Kansas
Oklahoma
John Q’s
Diabetes, Drugs,
and Dangerous Discrepancies
Sally Bodenhamer, OD
MOA Business Meeting — Lunch Served
MOSA Lecture: New Graduate
Guide to Evaluating a Private
Practice Opportunity
Jason Lake, OD
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2:00pm - 4:00pm
COPE: Pending
Kansas
Oklahoma
6:30pm - 7:15pm
Foyer
7:15pm - 9:30pm
Georgia
Arizona
From Front to Back,
What’s New
MEI Doctors: Francis Jansen, MD;
Daniel Osborn, MD; and Larry Meyer, MD
Presidential Reception
Presidential Banquet
followed by Casino Night
SATURDAY
Paraoptometric Section
7:00am - 12:00pm
Foyer
Registration
8:00am - 8:50am
Illinois
Scleral Contact Lenses
9:00am - 9:50am
ABO | CPC
Illinois
Patient Satisfaction
vs Patient Loyalty
10:00am - 10:50am
ABO | CPC
Illinois
Communicating with Patients
11:00am - 12:00pm
CPC
Illinois
Checking Vitals
12:00pm - 1:00pm
CPC
Illinois
Optometric Care of Children
with Developmental Disabilities
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Illinois
Para Business Meeting — Lunch Served
2:45pm - 3:45pm
CPC
Illinois
So You’re Saying
It’s an Emergency?
6:30pm - 7:15pm
7:15pm - 9:30pm
Chris DeRose, OD
Sharon Carter
Sharon Carter
Cassidy Obermark, OD
Kia Eldred-McGee, OD
Emily Thomas, OD
Foyer
Presidential Reception
Georgia
Arizona
Presidential Banquet
followed by Casino Night
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SUNDAY
Optometrists
The Art of Optometry
8:00am - 9:00am
COPE: 40142EJ
Kansas
Oklahoma
9:00am - 10:00am
COPE: 36263PS
Kansas
Oklahoma
AMD:
A Practical Proactive Approach
10:00am - 12:00pm
COPE: 34524PS
Kansas
Oklahoma
Fundus Autoflourescence
and its Practical Applications
12:20pm - 1:20pm
Arkansas
MOA Post-Convention Board Meeting
Jeffrey Gerson, OD
Jeffrey Gerson, OD
Jeffrey Gerson, OD
Paraoptometric Section
The Art of Optometry
8:00am - 9:00am
CPC
Kansas
Oklahoma
9:00am - 10:00am
CPC
Kansas
Oklahoma
AMD:
A Practical Proactive Approach
10:00am - 12:00pm
CPC
Kansas
Oklahoma
Fundus Autoflourescence
and its Practical Applications
Jeffrey Gerson, OD
Jeffrey Gerson, OD
Jeffrey Gerson, OD
Thank you
for sponsoring the Sunday sessions!
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MOAA
Thursday
4:00pm - 7:00pm
Foyer
Registration
Friday
7:00am - 5:00pm
Foyer
9:30am - 10:45am
Convention
Center
Exhibit Hall Open — Coffee & Rolls
12:15pm - 2:45pm
Convention
Center
Exhibit Hall Open — Luncheon
4:15pm - 6:00pm
Convention
Center
Exhibit Hall Open — Reception
6:00pm
Registration
Dinner on Your Own
Saturday
7:30am - 12:00pm
Foyer
Registration
10:30am - 12:00pm
Tower Club
6:30pm - 7:15pm
Foyer
Presidential Reception
7:15pm-9:30pm
Georgia
Arizona
Presidential & Banquet
MOAA Brunch
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SPEAKERS
Sally Bodenhamer, OD, began her healthcare career as an Occupational
Therapist, graduating from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2001. A 2007
graduate of Northeastern State Oklahoma College of Optometry, she has been in
private practice with her father and brother for the past 7 years in Jefferson City,
MO. A Certified Diabetes Educator who provides Diabetic Eye Care at her local
community health center. Bodenhamer enjoys studying insulin and blood sugar
regulation and functional medicine approaches to ocular and systemic health.
Sharon Carter has more than 20 years of optometric experience including working
in an office as an office manager, sales, and training for an optometric software
company to consulting for private practices. She started her own consulting
company, Eye Care Optometric Consulting (ECOC), in 2001 and consults all
over the country spreading her team building philosophy. She is energetic and
enthusiastic and for more than 9 years has been speaking and motivating staff at
state, national, and international conferences sharing her company’s philosophy
of “provide the best patient care possible and the money will follow.”
Dr. Michael Chaglasian, OD, received his degree from SUNY College of Optometry
before completing a residency in primary care / ocular disease from Pennsylvania
College of Optometry. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Illinois College
of Optometry and Chief of Staff of the Illinois Eye Institute. He is in charge of the
Glaucoma Service at the IEI, providing patient care while instructing residents and
students. He limits his patient care to the diagnosis and treatment of glaucoma. He
is a founding member and current Treasurer of the Optometric Glaucoma Society
and has a number of published articles on the topics of glaucoma and visual fields.
Kia Eldred-McGee, OD, received her optometry degree at the University of
Houston College of Optometry and served on the faculty there for 20 years. She
currently is a staff optometrist at the DeBakey VA Medical Center in the VISOR
program. She has served on the executive committee of the AAO Low Vision
Diplomate program. She works with children with multiple disabilities in the
NOVA clinic. Eldred has consulted at the Institute for Rehabilitation and Research
in the Texas Medical Center for 18 years. She serves as a Vision Rehabilitation
consultant to Educational Service Centers in Texas. Other interests in optometry
include international mission trips with the Fellowship of Christian Optometrists.
Jeff Gamble, OD, is a native of Columbia, Missouri. After completing his
undergraduate studies at Missouri State University, he went on to earn his
optometric degree from Northeastern State University College of Optometry in
Tahlequah, Oklahoma. Dr. Gamble completed an externship at the Muskogee
Veterans Medical Center in Muskogee, Oklahoma, before joining Columbia Eye
Consultants-Optometry in 2002. Since that time he has been an active member of
the Missouri Optometric Association.
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SPEAKERS
Jeffry Gerson, OD, FAAO, graduated from Indiana University School of Optometry
in 1997, then completed a residency on ocular disease and low vision at the VA
medical center in Kansas City. He joined the faculty at the University of Kansas
School of Medicine in ophthalmology department. His current practice, WestGlen
Eyecare, provides full scope care, and he provides retinal consultations for
colleagues and is involved in clinical research. Gerson has authored several journal
articles and lectures frequently on the topics of retinal disease and systemic
disease. He is a member of the AOA as well as the Kansas Optometric Association
which named him their 2008 young OD of the year.
Susan Lake, OD, earmed her optometry degree at SCO in Memphis completing
an internship in pediatric vision in Maryland. Lake turned her passion for vision
therapy into action by starting Vision and Learning Center (VLC) through her
optometry practice, Eyecare Specialties. The VLC offers vision, speech, and various
other custom therapies to bring about the full social and academic potential
for children. A frequent lecturer to parent groups, coaches, educators, nursing
organizations, OT’s, OD’s and PT’s, Lake is an advocate for the early recognition of
vision problems using vision therapy to resolve vision problems in children.
Cassidy Obermark, OD, is a 2012 graduate of University of Missouri-St. Louis
College of Optometry. She completed a residency in primary care and ocular
disease at the Jack C. Montgomery VA Medical Center in Muskogee Oklahoma.
This program, an affiliate of Northeastern State University College of Optometry,
allowed Obermark to precept third and fourth year optometry students in
NSUOCO campus clinics as well as at the Cherokee Nation Hastings Hospital. She
joined her father’s, Dr. Dan Obermark, practice in July 2013. They are located in
southeast Missouri with offices in Sikeston and Poplar Bluff.
Sam Pierce, OD, was elected to the AOA Board of Trustees in 2009 and re-elected
at Optometry’s Meeting® in 2014. Pierce is a member of the AOA Finance and
Investment Committees, and is board liaison to the AOA Advocacy Group, the
AOA Council on Research and the Third Party Center. A graduate of the University
of Alabama at Birmingham School of Optometry (UABSO) and a past president
of the UABSO Alumni Association, Pierce received the UABSO 2010 Alumnus of
the Year award, and in 2012 he received the Alabama Optometric Association’s
Optometrist of the Year award. He is in private practice in Trussville, Alabama.
Emily Thomas, OD, graduated with honors from the University of Missouri-St.
Louis College of Optometry in 2008. For the past six years she has worked at Vision
Clinic, a private practice with nine doctors serving four locations in Springfield,
Missouri. Thomas enjoys all aspects of private practice, but has a special interest
in specialty contact lens fittings, emergency eye care, and patient education.
Outside of practicing optometry, Dr. Thomas leads educational presentations to
school nurses, Parents As Teachers, and community organizations about children’s
vision and emergent eye conditions.
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SPONSORS
Diamond
VSP Vision Care
Platinum
Essilor of America
Missouri Eye Institute
Missouri Optometric Foundation
Vision Source
Gold
Alcon Laboratories
Allergan
Optos, Inc.
Vistakon/Vision Care
Silver
Restoration Eye Care — Timothy McGarity, MD
Moyes Eye Center, PC — Andrew Moyes, MD
Retina Associates of St. Louis, Inc.
Bronze
Firestone Optics
Golf Tournament
ABB Optical Group
Carl Zeiss – Kansas City
Central Bank
Charmant
Cokingtin Eye Center
Columbia Eye Consultants – Optometry
Duffens Optical
Enhanced Medical Services
Europa International
Eye Consultants, Inc-Cape Girardeau
Hart Specialties/New York Eye
HOYA Vison Care
i-dealoptics
Insurance Store, Inc.
iTronix Systems
Lohman Hills Creative
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Marco
Midland Optical
Missouri Eye Care Alliance (MECA)
Missouri Eye Institute
Ozark Optical Laboratories
Retina Institute
Silverstein Eye Centers
Steve Kidwell Diagnostics
Steven Goodrich, MD
Sutherlin Optical
TLC Laser Eye Centers
Tura
Visionary Eyecare & Surgery
Walman Optical Co.
ZeaVision
EXHIBITORS
Thank you for supporting the
MOA 2014 Annual Conference.
ABB Optical Group — #43 & #52
Midland Optical — #2 & #3
Alcon Laboratories, Inc — #65 & #66
MOA Auxiliary — #19
Allergan — #7
MOA Paraoptometrics — #13
Amcon Laboratory — #30
Missouri Optometric Foundation — #68
Bausch & Lomb — #18
Newton Group — #40
Carl Zeiss Meditec — #23
Nidek — #44
CooperVision, Inc — #49
Optos, Inc — #6
Diopsys, Inc — #39
Optovue, Inc — #56
Duffens Optical Co — #70 & #71
Ozarks Optical Laboratories Inc — #26 & 27
Enhanced Medical Services — #20
PECAA — #24
Europa International — #10
Rehabilitation Services for the Blind — #12
Firestone Optics — #28
Saving Sight — #67
FoxFire System Group — #61
Signet Armorlite, Inc — #29
Gateway Optical Service, Inc — #63
Solutionreach — #45
Genzyme — #50
Sutherlin Optical — #47 & #48
HOYA Vision Care — #22 & #31
SynergEyes, Inc — #64
iTronix Systems — #69
TLC Laser Eye Centers — #23
Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc — #46
UMSL —School of Optometry — #54
Latham & Phillips Ophthalmics — #11
Walman Optical & Vision Groups — #42 & #53
Lombart Instrument — #1
Wolfner Talking Book and Braille Library — #9
Marco — #8
WVA — #72
MECA/Vision Care Direct — #25
ZeaVision, LLC — #4
Mercy Clinics Eye Specialists — #5
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2015
January 11-12
MOA Legislative Conference
Capitol Plaza Hotel in Jefferson City, MO
February 13-15
HOACLS
Sheraton Crown Center in Kansas City, MO
March 29-31
2014 AOA Congressional Conference
Washington, DC
June 5-7
MOA Leadership Retreat
Tan-Tar-A at Lake of the Ozarks
October 15-18
MOA Conference
Downtown Marriott in Kansas City, MO