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Low Vision Educators Special Interest Group

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Low Vision Educators Special Interest Group

Met: July 10-11, 2021; Virtual

Chair(s): Katie Boland, UMSLCO (chair); Swati Moti, UHCO (chair-elect)

Actions:

  • Approved minutes from Fall LV Educators SIG meeting (virtual)
  • Voted for next year’s steering committee members and leadership
  • Announced time and date of Fall AAO SIG meeting in Boston: Thursday, November 4, 2021; 6:30 a.m. - 8 a.m. EST (location TBD)
  • Made announcement of next year’s Summer meeting at MCPHS

Topics Discussed/Speakers:

  • Collaborative Programming (Nicole Ross, NECO)
  • iBook Updates (via note from Richard Jamara, NECO)
  • Clinical Education, LV Section, Interim Survey Results (Nicole Ross, NECO & Rebecca Marinoff, SUNY)
  • Sub-Specialization Task Force (Kierstyn Napier-Dovorany, WUCO, with introduction by David Heath, SUNY, ASCO Board Liaison)

Further discussions:

  • Relevant AAO & AOA section meetings as well as AAO Diplomate process for LV
  • LV & NBEO Part 3
  • Updating Entry Level Competencies
  • New CPT coding rubric

Sponsors:  Mattingly Low Vision, Lighthouse for the Blind Industries (St. Louis), Spark Therapeutics, and Envision University

  • Sponsor presentation: Spark Therapeutics (Dan Burkhard, Genetic Diagnostic Liaison for the Midwest)

Contact LaShawn Sidbury, Director of Meetings and SIGs, for additional questions.

 

 

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