Title: Living Well with Diabetic Eye Disease
Date: Tuesday, November 24, 2020

Time: 3 p.m. ET

Managing diabetes can be challenging and complex – even more so if you are living with an eye disease. In this webinar, multi-disciplinary experts will share their perspectives on how you can live well with diabetes. Topics discussed will include practical tips for managing diabetes while living with vision loss, mental health resources and community supports, and hearing from patient partners who have lived experience of diabetes and vision loss.

Panelists: Dr. David Wong, retinal specialist; Leanne Baarda, Independent Living Skills Specialist, Vision Loss Rehabilitation Ontario; Diana Sherifali, PhD, clinical nurse specialist, Diabetes Care and Research Program, Hamilton Health Sciences; Bert Neutel, patient partner.

Registration:

REGISTER FOR THE LIVING WELL WEBINAR

A Q&A period will be included. Please email your questions in advance to [email protected]

View Point is free of charge for all participants.

This webinar is presented in partnership with Diabetes Action Canada.

Date: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Time: 8:00 – 10:00PM EST 

Join us for the 5th annual course for Canadian senior ophthalmology residents. This year’s condensed version will focus on key highlights of the curriculum.

Course Director: IKE AHMED, MD FRCSC

Presenters:

• HADY SAHEB, MD FRCSC MPH
• GUILLERMO ROCHA, MD FRCSC
• AMANDEEP RAI, MD FRCSC
• DOMINIQUE BOURRET-MASSICOTTE, MDCM FRCPC FRCSC

Agenda Topics:

• IOL Biometry, Calculations & Formulas
• Topography Primer
• Toric Primer
• Case studies in virtual “breakout rooms”

Registration:

Register here.

This program is limited to PGY4 and PGY5 residents only.

Fighting Blindness Canada’s new virtual education series, View Point, brings the latest in vision research. Over the next several weeks, join us in exploring cutting edge vision research, new treatments for blinding eye diseases, and more.

Title: Diabetes & Vision Loss 101
Date: Tuesday, November 3, 2020

Time: 5 p.m. ET

Description:

Did you know that one in three Canadians live with diabetes or pre-diabetes? Diabetes can cause uncontrolled bleeding in the retina, putting people with diabetes at risk of losing their eye sight. In this webinar, Dr. Netan Choudhry will discuss how diabetes affects the eye, what you can do to take care of your eyes, and what treatments are available if your sight is affected by diabetes.

Registration:

REGISTER FOR DIABETES & VISION LOSS WEBINAR

View Point is free of charge for all participants.

A Q&A period will be included. Please email your questions in advance to [email protected]

Date: October 27, 2020

Time: 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM

Title: The Ambiguity of Pachychoroid

Speaker: Dr. Rick Spaide, Vitreous Retina Macula Consultants of New York

Panelist: Nadia Waheed, Tufts University

Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85794432915?pwd=T0Z1NGN5eFMxdXFsbFp2UG9yVmEwQT09
Passcode: connect

Date: Friday October 23, 2020

Time: 8:45 AM – 11:45 AM – AAO 9

Topic: White dot syndrome & Panuveitis AND Pediatric Uveitis

Speaker(s): Drs. Alex Kaplan and Nasrin Tehrani

Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81696926916?pwd=cDFkN2poQmFkRUZQOXZJbTY5Z0l3Zz09
Passcode: GF3ap6

Challenges in Vitreoretinal surgery

The Calgary Ophthalmology Program and University of Calgary are organizing an online CME webinar as part of their retina grand rounds on October 21st from 7 pm to 8:30 pm ET (5 pm to 6:30 pm MT).

Short intraoperative videos demonstrating challenging vitreoretinal surgeries will be presented by retina surgeons and their current fellows. The speakers will share their experience pertaining to the management of such cases.

The goal of this CME accredited webinar is to share clinical experience among retina surgeons and educate fellows on managing these challenging cases. At the end of this webinar, learners will be able to implement practice changes based on “pearls” and take-away messages provided by the speakers.

Speakers:
Dr. Amin Kherani – University of Calgary
Dr. Geoff Williams – University of Calgary
Dr. Efrem Mandelcorn – University of Calgary
Dr. Cynthia Qian – University of Montreal
Dr. David Ehmann – University of Alberta

Topics:

Complex Retinal Detachment repair post IOFB removal
Dealing with unexpected inferior pathology during vitrectomy for RRD
Giant Retinal Tear management
Managing Adult Persistent Fetal Vasculature in RRD
The Recurrent Retinal Detachment

Registration link: https://tinyurl.com/UofCWebinar

Accreditation:

This webinar is an Accredited Group Learning Activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and approved by the Canadian Ophthalmological Society. You may claim a maximum of 1.5 hours

Joint International Rounds between Precision Cornea Centre (Ottawa, Canada) and ICOF- Hospital Clinic of Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain)

Topic: Management of Subluxated IOLs: Cases and Overview

Presenter: Meilin Chang, MD

Date: Tuesday October 20th, 2020

Time: 5:00pm – 6:00 pm (EDT, UTC -4)

Registration: https://webinar.ringcentral.com/webinar/register/WN_FIscFURvTimfk0U1P8VzrQ

Ottawa Lead: Kashif Baig, MD
Barcelona Lead: Meilin Chang, MD

The Precision Cornea Centre International Rounds is a self-approved group learning activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada

Learning objectives:

At the end of the session participants should be able to:

1. Classify cases with malpositioned IOLs

2. Identify the keys to decide best surgical approach in cases of malpositioned IOLs

3. Understand different options to scleral suture IOLs

Webinar Date: October 20, 2020

Time: 2:00 – 3:00 pm EDT
Registration Required: https://cadth.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_gnMamStBQPmrjsXNYf53Cw

Around the world, governments, researchers, and health care providers are working under extreme pressure to develop and deliver effective, evidence-based approaches to prevent, detect, treat, and manage COVID-19. The need for swift action combined with the constantly changing information we have about the virus is altering the evidence landscape in many ways.

This webinar will explore whether COVID-19 has changed the evidence landscape paradigm, the type of evidence used to make decisions, the utility of rapid reviews to support critically important policy and clinical decisions, and the level of risk decision-makers are willing to tolerate. Speakers will also explore whether COVID 19 has changed how we look at evidence going forward.

Join CADTH CEO Suzanne McGurn as she moderates a candid discussion with leading experts, including:

• Dr. Christopher McCabe, Executive Director and CEO, Institute of Health Economics
• Anne Hayes, Director, Research, Analysis and Evaluation Branch, Ontario Ministry of Health and Co-Chair of the Evidence Synthesis Network, and Member of the COVID-19 Advisory for Ontario Science Table
• Dr. Nicole Mittmann, Chief Scientist and Vice-President, Evidence Standards, CADTH

Access Details

To participate, please register (there is no cost). After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with information about how to join the webinar. Register here: https://cadth.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_gnMamStBQPmrjsXNYf53Cw

Title: An Update on the Pharmaceutical Management of Glaucoma

Date
October 14, 2020

Time
8:00 pm ET

Registration:

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_uJkg4bByRrCdYw_hUJyBsA

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

Language: English only

Description
Through this 60-minute webinar, Dr. Harasymowycz will provide a detailed presentation of existing and new drugs for treating glaucoma and best practices for clinical assessment with case-based examples. There will be time for a Q&A period between the participants and Dr. Harasymowycz.

Learning Objectives
At the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Evaluate data demonstrating the value of low target pressures in glaucoma treatment
• Review other risk factors for glaucomatous progression despite ‘adequate’ IOP control
• Describe new treatment modalities currently available or on the horizon for non-surgical glaucoma treatment

Planning Committee
Dr. Paul Harasymowyzc, Dr. Jeff Martow and Dr. Karin Oliver

Accreditation

This webinar is an Accredited Group Learning Activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and approved by the Canadian Ophthalmological Society You may claim a maximum of 1 hours.

This webinar was co-developed with COS and Aequus Pharmaceuticals and was planned to achieve scientific integrity, objectivity and balance.