SECO CERTIFICATE PROGRAMS 

129 Lasers in Optometry: The Next Frontier
Nate Lighthizer, OD      3/3/2023          1:30 PM - 3:30 PM           
Lasers can be used by optometrists in 10 states to treat various anterior segment conditions, including posterior capsular opacification (PCO), angle closure glaucoma, and open-angle glaucoma. This interactive presentation will review when and how to perform common ophthalmic laser procedures.         

132 Lasik and PRK Post-Op Pitfalls
Emily Love, OD        3/4/2023          7:00 AM- 8:00 AM          
This course will focus on pitfalls that could permanently affect a patient’s vision, experience, and happiness after LASIK and PRK surgery. Doctors should anticipate potential dangers and predictable complications that can arise during all phases of refractive surgery.       

135 Optometric Surgical Procedures for Every Optometrist
Nate Lighthizer, OD       3/4/2023          10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
This course will introduce the doctor of optometry to advanced, in-office surgical procedures, including lump and bump removal, chalazion treatment, punctal occlusion, suture correction for entropion, and various anterior segment lasers. Indications, contraindications, risks, complications, treatment protocols, and pre- and post-op management are covered.       

147 Optometric Surgical Comanagement
Bobby Saenz, OD           3/5/2023          10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
This course will discuss the latest information in surgical co-management. We will discuss how optometrists can become more involved in both the pre and postoperative care of their patients with regards to LASIK, SMILE, ICLs, and refractive cataract surgery. Interactive cases, through electronic audience polling, will provide instantaneous feedback to optometrists as they are involved in surgical planning.           

600 Laser Workshop
Chris Wroten, OD; Nate Lighthizer, OD      3/2/2023          10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
This workshop will include a brief review of YAG capsulotomy, YAG peripheral iridotomy, and selective laser trabeculoplasty (SLT), including clinical indications for surgery. Various instrument settings, surgical protocols and techniques, clinical pearls, and expected outcomes will be reviewed, followed by hands-on experience of performing laser surgeries on model eyes.

603 Laser Workshop
Chris Wroten, OD; Nate Lighthizer, OD      3/3/2023          8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
This workshop will include a brief review of YAG capsulotomy, YAG peripheral iridotomy, and selective laser trabeculoplasty (SLT), including clinical indications for surgery. Various instrument settings, surgical protocols and techniques, clinical pearls, and expected outcomes will be reviewed, followed by hands-on experience of performing laser surgeries on model eyes.

117 Get Fired Up! Lasers for Glaucoma
Chris Wroten, OD          3/2/2023          3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Learn an evidence-based approach to how selective laser trabeculoplasty (SLT) can benefit patients with open-angle glaucoma. We will discuss which patients are the best candidates for success, general laser settings, and clinical protocols, along with surgical pearls from a colleague skilled in performing SLT. YAG peripheral laser iridotomy for narrow-angle glaucoma will also be discussed.  

400 Need vs. Want: OD's and Staff Share Unique, Sometimes Conflicting Perspectives          
Lynn Lawrence, MS, CPOT, ABOC, COA, OSC; Tami Franklin, CPOT, ABOC; Ted McElroy, OD   3/1/2023          1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
This course is designed to foster dialog between the panel and audience on the topic of “Office Needs vs Office Wants”. Topics include workplace expectations and the impact of changes within our society on the ophthalmic industry.           

401 Team Ideas for a Great Workplace
Tami Franklin, CPOT, ABOC        3/1/2023          3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
This course will give attendees an understanding of the importance of having a great team culture. We will discuss easy-to-implement ideas to begin to change the culture of a practice, which benefits the practice, employees, doctors, and patients. Join us for a fun conversation to either improve your team culture or gain new ideas.

403 Facilitated Learning Lab - Onboarding New Hires: Staff Training 
Lynn Lawrence, MS, CPOT, ABOC, COA, OSC; Tami Franklin, CPOT, ABOC    
3/2/2023            8:00 AM - 10:00 AM        
Onboarding new staff is critical to building a successful team. This course will discuss training, staff certification, and continuing education to train new employees.  

404 Lessons in Leadership
Jim Schneider; Amy Schneider     3/2/2023          10:30 AM - 11:30 AM        
Lessons in Leadership will provide attendees with a peek behind the curtain at what a leadership and development program look like. This highly valuable, executive-level training will look at what works and what doesn't. "Work-life balance will also be discussed.      

419 If You Want to Move Forward, It's Time to Retreat!
Robert Reed, OD           3/4/2023          12:00 PM - 1:00 PM           
How do we get everybody in the office to be on the same page? By holding an office retreat where the entire staff can get educated and motivated to head in new directions and adopt new procedures and learn new equipment. A working checklist will be the take home to new profitable possibilities.  

422 Family Feud - Staffing Best Practices: Pearls from a Growing Practice
Bobby Saenz, OD           3/4/2023          4:00 PM - 6:00 PM           
This course will give doctors an insight into our journey from 17 to 100 employees, discussing the up and downs and emphasizing pearls to help other practices succeed. This course will focus on culture, core values, team accountability, and providing extraordinary customer service. In addition to all the biggest mistakes we have made, this course will discuss how personality testing can be used to find the best position for an employee.  

402 Cost vs. Value: Why People Buy
Tami Franklin, CPOT, ABOC        3/1/2023          4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Consumers make decisions based on the perceived value of the product or service being offered. This course provides practical examples of how an optometric practice can deliver on quality, service, level of need, and convenience, which enables you to justify the price. Enhancing perceived value also fosters higher patient compliance and adherence to treatment plans. 

607 Hands-On Workshop - Frame Adjustment
Janet Alspaugh      3/4/2023          12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Frame adjustments can make or break a patient's confidence in their optician's abilities. In this workshop, you can refresh your knowledge on standard alignment, the Fitting Triangle, the order of adjustments, basic and advanced adjustments, and troubleshoot patient complaints.    

713 Eyewear Fitting Tips and Pop Up Fashion Show  
Joy Gibb, ABOC       3/4/2023          8:00 AM - 10:00 AM        
Come learn the techniques that will allow you to be an amazing frame stylist and giving your customers the best personal experience possible.  Current and upcoming trends will be presented to help dispensers be on point with their inventory and learning to show frames based on lifestyle.

716 How to Customize, Create, and Fit Bespoke Eyewear
Barry Santini        3/4/2023          1:00 PM - 2:00 PM           
With thousands of frames styles and brands, choosing a frame often appears to amount to trial and error or patient/family preference. Rather than taking a back seat, opticians should move forward and master how to fit, create and customize a bespoke frame for a wearer’s needs. No longer a descriptor to be looked down upon, becoming a skilled and trusted frame “stylist” should now become THE essential soft skill of every optician.           

724EH  Optical Merchandising Secrets from the Masters
Bill Gerber        3/3/2023          12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Why do some practices thrive while others languish? Mastery is the key! Learn in this high-energy course what the masters do and how to implement a proven system that will make the buying experience fun, rewarding, and dynamic for both the patient and the professional. This course will help optical retailers create an environment that will lead to patients happily buying a wide variety of visual solutions and accessories.

725EH  The 3 P's of Frame Buying: People-Product-Profits
Phernell Walker, MBA, ABOM    3/3/2023          3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Inventory is the most valuable investment in an optometric practice. What is your strategy for purchasing, balancing, and maintaining that inventory? Learn to master the 3 Ps of inventory, People, Products, and Profits. This course will cover how to purchase for your target practice demographic, understand category management, differentiate frame products, and much more. This is a must-course for practice owners, managers, buyers, and opticians.

726EH  Frame Vendor Selection and Evaluation
Sharon Carter       3/4/2023          11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
This course will help you understand how many frames you need based on your practice demographics. You will learn how to select the companies you need to work with, and a plan to work with your frame reps to create an effective team. 

727EH  Exit Strategies for Slow Selling Frame Inventory 
Carrie A. Wilson, MBA, MA, ABOM, NCLE-AC      3/4/2023          2:00 PM            3:00 PM           
Are you feeling stuck with inventory that doesn't seem to be moving? There is hope! While the go-to may be to exchange the product with your frame rep, this may be costing you more money in the long run. This course helps you think of innovative ways to move slow-selling frames while maximizing profit.

700 A Historical View of Frames and Lenses 
Jackie O'Keefe, ABOC    3/1/2023          1:00 PM - 3:00 PM           
This course takes a close look at the technical advancements in frames and lenses that have developed over the past 45 years. Improvements in materials and technological designs have evolved based on triumphs, failures, consumer influence, and ECP persuasiveness. Come and join us as we travel back in time and revisit where we have been and where we are today     

721 High Powered Lens Designs and Frame Selection
Carrie A. Wilson, MBA, MA, ABOM, NCLE-AC      3/5/2023          10:00 AM - 11:00 AM        
You used a high index lens, chose a digital design, and the lens is aspheric but the end product is still not what you desired. Why does this occur? This course will help you to understand how the frame fit can have a larger impact on the finished product than lens material and why certain lens designs work better for one prescription type than another.      

700 A Historical View of Frames and Lenses 
Jackie O'Keefe, ABOC    3/1/2023          1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
This course takes a close look at the technical advancements in frames and lenses that have developed over the past 45 years. Improvements in materials and technological designs have evolved based on triumphs, failures, consumer influence, and ECP persuasiveness. Come and join us as we travel back in time and revisit where we have been and where we are today.    

721 High Powered Lens Designs and Frame Selection
Carrie A. Wilson, MBA, MA, ABOM, NCLE-AC      3/5/2023          10:00 AM- 11:00 AM
You used a high index lens, chose a digital design, and the lens is aspheric but the end product is still not what you desired. Why does this occur? This course will help you to understand how the frame fit can have a larger impact on the finished product than lens material and why certain lens designs work better for one prescription type than another. 

701 Measuring & Fitting Ophthalmic Lenses Today
Jackie O'Keefe, ABOC      3/1/2023          3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Back in the day, measurements were recorded as on center for single vision lenses and 3 mm below center for flat top bifocals. As ophthalmic lens technologies and designs have evolved over the years, the need and methodology for ECPs to measure have evolved too. From measuring by hand, all the way to utilizing digital measuring systems, you will leave this course with a great understanding of measuring techniques used today.  

702 Positively Polarized For Me & My Patients
Jackie O'Keefe, ABOC    3/1/2023          4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
The U.S. ophthalmic market is witnessing an increase in the sales of polarized lenses…especially in Rx sun and sportswear. This course looks at the history of how polarized filters are manufactured, how variable tinted polarization works, and strategies to sell them.        

705 The Chronicles of Digital Devices and Their Relationship to CVS & DES     
Jackie O'Keefe, ABOC    3/2/2023          12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Once known as Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS), Digital Eye Strain (DES) is an important issue in today's world. DES is a result of overusing computers, laptops, tablets, and other digital devices. Overuse can cause eye strain, headaches, and neck discomfort to name a few. This course looks at lens options, ergonomic recommendations, and useful tips we can share with our patients/customers.   

707 The Path of Selective Absorption Lenses 
Jackie O'Keefe, ABOC    3/2/2023          3:30 PM- 4:30 PM
This course will help increase your understanding of how ophthalmic lenses control the amount of light transmitted. Tinted lenses allow specific light rays to pass through the lens and other light rays to be absorbed. Ophthalmic lens treatments like antireflective coatings and photochromics also selectively absorb light rays. Understanding light absorption is key to recommending lens tints and treatments to your patient/customer.

719 All About the Base Curve
Barry Santini     3/5/2023          8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
The base curve is perhaps the most incompletely understood aspect of everyday ophthalmic optics. Learning to choose the proper base curve is one of the most common battles in the ongoing war between optics and cosmetics. Understanding exactly how, why, where, and when base curve choice will significantly impact the balance between cosmetics, perception and peripheral acuity is more than essential: it elevates designing a pair of glasses to an art form.

720 The Science Behind Color Enhancement 
Barry Santini     3/5/2023          9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
The importance of color and color vision in human history is very important. Addressing color vision deficiencies can be a life-changing event for many impaired individuals. Today, every eye care professional should become fully conversant with all the current color enhancement technologies, including those for the impaired and those for performance-specific activities.

722 What’s Behind the Blue?
Carrie A. Wilson, MBA, MA, ABOM, NCLE-AC      3/5/2023          11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
This class will take a critical, science-based view of what blue light is and how it benefits and hinders certain aspects of our lives. We will look at the different types of blue light and how the body reacts to the different bands.

704 Lenses as Prisms: Understanding How Lenses Work
Diane Drake, LDO, ABOM, NCLEM          3/2/2023          10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Are lenses prisms? This course will explain prism and the effect of prism both wanted and unwanted. Information included will be how lenses work and why prism occurs. Discussion will include some specialty uses of prism.      

708 Two Eyes and One Brain: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Paige Shoven       3/3/2023          7:00 AM - 8:00 AM
For the eyes and the brain to work together seamlessly, both the accommodation and the vergence system must be synchronized. When there is a breakdown in one or both systems, outside assistance is needed. In this course, we will discuss the differences between the two systems, how to diagnose and classify which system is causing symptoms for the patient and discover treatment plans for both.          

709 The Effect of Small Prism on Visual Comfort      
Paige Shoven    3/3/2023          10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Eye misalignments are one of the common causes of Digital Vision Syndrome-related symptomatology.  The misconception is that only patients with large phorias suffer from visual discomfort. However, patients who receive small amounts of prism correction report significant improvements in their DVS symptoms.  This course will help us define and understand prism, and offer solutions to treat DVS, so we to provide the best visual outcomes for our patients.  

710 Mastering Optics Formulae
Phernell Walker, MBA, ABOM       3/3/2023          1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Join Phernell Walker, Master Optician as he shares his Pure Optics method to advanced optical formulae. This course explores formulae used to solve dioptric power of thick lenses, polar and rectangular prism, prism compensated lenses, compensated power for simultaneous vertical and horizontal power, spectacle magnification, and cross-cylinders.

712 Optics of Wrap Lenses  
Phernell Walker, MBA, ABOM       3/4/2023          7:00 AM - 8:00 AM          
Trendy eyewear with an excessive wrap will mechanically change the prescription and induce unwanted prism. It is essential for opticians and optometrists to understand and compensate for these adverse changes. This course will cover how to calculate prism, and the effective power sphere, cylinder, axis of wrap lenses, and explore real-world solutions to this common problem.

714 Effective Power and Magnification
Carrie A. Wilson, MBA, MA, ABOM, NCLE-AC      3/4/2023          10:00 AM - 11:00 AM   
Understanding effective power and magnification can be extremely beneficial in understanding how individuals see through the lens in the real-world environment. This effective power and magnification course will give you the tools to recognize how changes in lens parameters will impact vision and how you can minimize lens adaptation periods.        

715 The Art and Science of Ophthalmic Lenses
Phernell Walker, MBA, ABOM      3/4/2023          12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
This course explores lens design from Single Vision, Near Variable Focus Lenses, Lined Multi-focal, Progressive Lens designs, implications of refractive index, lens thinness, and secrets to designing the most optically precise work of art for your eyes. Designing the most optically precise and cosmetically appealing lens shouldn’t be left to common myths and optical roulette.

723 Lens Form and Analysis
Carrie A. Wilson, MBA, MA, ABOM, NCLE-AC      3/5/2023          12:00 PM - 1:00 PM   
Sphere, cylinder, axis, prism, base curve: we know the terms but what do they mean? In this course, we will dissect the lens and explain the components so that the fundamentals of lens design are better understood