Saturday, October 27

Optometry Times Show Update - AAO

Larry N. Thibos, PhD, FAAO, and Susana T.L. Chung, OD, PhD, FAAO, received the Charles F. Prentice Medal and the Glenn A. Fry Award, respectively, during the annual awards ceremony at the 2012 American Academy of Optometry meeting. » MORE

The National Eye Institute (NEI) is looking for Ideas that transcend the next step in vision research. In other words: Audacious Goals. Submit your own Audacious Goal for NEI funding. » MORE

Kelly Nichols, OD, MPH, PhD, and Caroline Blackie, OD, PhD, discussed the role of meibomian gland dysfunction and lid wiper epitheliopathy in dry eye disease during the Section on Cornea, Contact Lenses and Refractive Technologies Symposium at the 2012 American Academy of Optometry meeting. » MORE

This poster at the 2012 American Academy of Optometry meeting reported results on comparing parafocal visual thresholds measured on single-cone photoreceptors with those measured in the spaces between cones, using adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (AOSLO). » MORE