ALASKA OPTOMETRIC ASSOCIATION

CE CONFERENCEJUNE 2 - 5

Alaska Optometric AssociationAnnual Conference

June 2 – 5, 2016

Schedule of Events

Thursday, June 2

7:00-8:30 Registration and Breakfast, sponsored by Bausch + Lomb

8:30-9:30 Dr. Doug Devries, Nutraceuticals in Treating Ocular Surface Disease

9:30-10:30 Dr. Doug Devries, Enhancing Compliance in Ocular Surface Disease

10:30-11:30 Dr. Doug Devries, Self-Retaining Amniotic Membranes

11:30-12:00 Break

12:00-1:30 Lunch, sponsored by Allergan and JJVCI

1:30-3:30 Dr. Doug Devries, MGD: A New Perspective and Understanding

3:30-4:30 Dr. Doug Devries, New Technology and Therapeutics

4:30-5:30 Dr. Doug Devries, Sjorgren’s Syndrome: What We Thought We Knew

Friday, June 3, 2016

7:00-8:00 Breakfast sponsored by MacuHealth

8:00-9:00 Dr. Jeffrey Mattson, Corneal Cross-linking Present and Future Applications

9:00-11:00 Dr. Paul Barney, New Technology and the Changing Eyecare Landscape

11:00-1:00 AKOA Business Meeting & LunchLunch sponsored by Pacific Cataract and Laser Institute

1:00-1:30 Break

1:30-3:30 Dr. Bill Gruzensky, Corneal Disease & Surgery

3:30-5:30 Dr. Christian Sternbaum

Alaska Optometric AssociationAnnual Conference

June 2 – 5, 2016

Schedule of Events(continued)

Hospitality Room: Unit #714 Hours:

Wednesday 7:30 - 9:30 p.m.Thursday and Friday 5:30 - 9:30 p.m.

Saturday 4:30 - 9:30 p.m.

Saturday, June 4, 2016

7:00-8:00 Breakfast, sponsored by Luxottica, Guest Speaker, Alessandro Baronti, The Consumer Connection

8:00-9:00 Dr. David McMahon, A One-Two Punch for Dry Eye: In-Office Meibomian Gland Expression and The Dry Eye Protocol

9:00-10:00 Dr. David McMahon, Nutrition to Combat Our Increasing Exposure to UV Blue Light and Other Eye Conditions

10:00-1:00 Vendor Exhibits and Lunch

1:00-3:00 Dr. Dwight Ellerbe, Facial Plastics Grand Rounds

4:30 Evening Boat Cruise

7:30 Evening Boat Cruise

Sunday, June 5, 2016

7:00-8:00 Breakfast sponsored by OOGP

8:00-10:00 Dr. Dori Carlson, Incorporating Infants and Children in Primary Care

10:00-11:00 Dr. Dori Carlson, Increase Practice Profitability with Refractive Systems andWavefront Technology

11:00-12:00 Dr. Dori Carlson, Lessons Learned From an Epidemic of EKC: As the Patientand Practitioner

Alaska Optometric AssociationBoard of Directors

President Steve Dobson, O.D.

President-Elect Ladd Nolin, O.D.

Vice President Kara Reynolds, O.D.

Secretary Andrea Eberle, O.D.

Treasurer Victoria Blower, O.D.

Immediate Past President David Karpik, O.D.

Education Director Paul Barney, O.D.

Legislative Director Jeff Gonnason, O.D.

Third Party Director Mike Bennett, O.D.

Alaska OptometricAssociation Welcomes

AOA PresidentSteven Loomis, O.D.

7761 Shaffer Parkway, Suite 200Littleton, CO 80127-3731

PresidentAmerican Optometric Association

2015-2016

Steven A. Loomis, O.D., was first elected to the American Optometric Asso-ciation Board of Trustees in 2007, and elected President at the 118th Annual AOA Congress & 45th Annual AOSA Conference: Optometry’s Meeting® in June 2015.

Before his election as president, Dr. Loomis served as the secretary-treasurer, vice president and president-elect of the AOA. Prior to serving on the AOA Board of Trustees, he was the chairman of the AOA State Government Rela-tions Center and the AOA Health Care Legislative Committee. He has also chaired the AOA Health Care Legislation Committee, the AOA Legal De-fense Fund Oversight Committee, and the Resolutions Committee.

Dr. Loomis grew up in Butte, Montana and attended Montana State Universi-ty. He received his Doctor of Optometry degree from Pacific University Col-lege of Optometry. Shortly after graduation, he opened a private practice in Littleton, Colorado, now known as Mountain Vista EyeCare, where he con-tinues to practice with his two partners, Kent Yount, O.D. and Tara DeRose, O.D., and associates Mark Kruchen, O.D. and Suzette Place, O.D.

He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Optometry. Dr. Loomis has also served as president of the Colorado Optometric Association and as president of the six state regional Southwest Council of Optometry. He was awarded both Optometrist of the Year and the Distinguished Service Award by the Colorado Optometric Association. He is a past president and board member of the Denver Southwest Rotary Club and a Paul Harris Fellow.

In addition to his duties as President, Dr. Loomis is chair of the AOA Build-ing, Agenda, and Executive Committees and serves as a member of the AOA Personnel Committee. He also serves as board liaison to the American Acad-emy of Optometry, Great Western Council of Optometry, Mountain West Council of Optometrists, North Central Council of Optometrists, East/ West, Southern Council of Optometrists, and Universidad InterAmericana.

He and his wife, Kathy, have three grown children and three granddaughters and two grandsons. They live in Roxborough Park, Colorado.

AKOAYour state advocate and partner

working on behalf of you and your patients

Past Legislative History

• In 1988 Alaska was the last (50th) legislature in the nation to vote to authorize optometrists to use topical diagnostic drugs. Maryland got a veto so Alaska was the 49th state to enact DPA.

• In 1992 the Alaska Legislature passed, and Governor Hickel signed, our legislation to become the 32nd TPA state authorizing optometrists to prescribe “topical” therapeutic drugs.

• In 2000, our full scope enhancement bill, SB 78, passed both house 57-2, but Governor Tony Knowles vetoed it with no override opportunity.

• In 2001-2002, HB 215 passed the House but died in Senate HES Committee.

• In 2003-2004. HB 142 was introduced to restrict optometry from surgery co-management, but the bill was killed.

• In 2005-2006, HB 204 for orals was introduced, but died. Another co-management restrictive bill was killed.

• In 2007, HB 113 passed the Senate 17-3 and the House 38-2, and was signed into law by Governor Sarah Palin September 28, which enhanced our law to include orals and injections including Schedule 3,4,5 controlled substances.

• In 2014, SB 162 , ensuring hydrocodone was included in our authority, was passed unanimously and signed into law by Governor Sean Parnell.

• In 2015 SB 55 was introduced, to set up a self-governing Board of Optometry. The bill passed the Senate, but did not receive a vote in the House.

AOAYour national advocate and partner

working on behalf of all OD’s and their patients

ADVOCACY:• Fighting to ensure access and equality in an increasingly changing and complex

healthcare system• Your AOA and state association/affiliate are dedicated to protecting and

expanding your practice

RECENT VICTORIES:• Harkin-Ford Motors now accepts OD’s for medical care• Think About Your Eyes National Advertising Opportunity• AOA Public Relations Campaigns• State Scope Victories• AOA Registry – New Member Benefit Launch-June 2015

LIFE WITHOUT AOA/ALPA• Organized Medicine, Insurers and Internet contact lens sellers would control

how ee practice and provide care for our patients and how we get paid• Our scope of practice would look as it did in the 1950’s and we would not be

providing any medical eye care.• ODs would not be recognized in Federal law as “physicians” and would not be

receiving $1.1 billion in Medicare payments this year.• Pediatric eye care would not be recognized in Federal law and regulation as

essential.

So what will you do when advancing technology makes your scope of practice obsolete? (increased use of lasers, varied routes of pharmaceutical administration, broader utilization of technicians by MD’s, nanotechnology, (disruptive technology)

• What if organized medicine reverses our scope of practice (Don’t laugh, it has already happened in Virginia and Idaho)

• What if contact lenses and eyeglasses lose their FDA status and can be purchased without a prescription?

• Can you make a living on just the services you provide and not the products you sell?

AKOA Welcomes New Members in

2015 and 2016

AKOA Welcomes our new Executive Director

AKOA Congratulates our AOA Life Time Members

(over 45 years with the AOA)

Angel Huscher-RodriguezConley Marcum (Returning Member)

Rowena Ann RiveraKyle Smith

Elizabeth E. Stevens

Dr. Phillip Bach, O.D.Dr. Lynn Coon, O.D.

Dr. Wayne Hagerman, O.D.Dr. Jeffrey Keene, O.D.Dr. John Shank, O.D.

Dr. Dennis Swarner, O.D.

Thank You 2016 Exhibit Hall Vendor Participants

AlconAllergan

Bausch & LombBio-Tissue

CoopervisionDiopsys, Inc.

Disability Determination ServicesEschenbach Optik

Essilor Labs of AmericaHoya Vision Care

Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, IncJorgenson Peninsula Optical Supply

LuxotticaMacuHealth

MarcoOCULUS, Inc.

OcuSci, Inc.OVVO Optics

Revolution EHRSpectrum Ophthalmics, Inc.

VSP Optics Group

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Dr. Lauren HazeltonDr. Marilyn HolmDr. David KarpikDr. Barbara KeysDr. Gary KjomeDr. Rebecca MakarDr. Jill MathesonDr. Jeffrey MattsonDr. Michael MavencampDr. Forrest MesserschmidtDr. Ladd NolinDr. Carmencita PalmaDr. Andrew PeterDr. Kathleen PowellDr. Patrick ReberDr. Kara ReynoldsDr. Kathleen RiceDr. John ShankDr. Kyle SmithDr. Dennis SwarnerDr. James TaylorDr. Denise ThanepohnDr. Nhan Tran

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For over 20 years the Alaska Optometric Association has been dedicated to improving and enhancing the vision care and public health in the state of Alaska. It has been the goal

of AKOA to unceasingly elevate the standard and ethics of the profession of optometry and to ensure that those

who have earned the title of Doctor of Optometry are able to practice their profession in Alaska to the fullest extent

possible.

Mission: The mission of the AKOA is to influence the future of eye

care by ensuring the welfare of Alaskans and promoting the continued development of the profession of optometry.

Vision: As the professional association of Alaskan State optometric

physicians, Alaska Optometric Association is the acknowledged leader and recognized authority for primary

eye and vision care in Alaska.

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