Clinical education for our referring partners is a core value at Colorado Retina Associates. We provide continuing education opportunities in partnership with Association of Regulatory Boards of Optometry (ARBO), Colorado Optometric Association (COA), Medical Education Resources (MER), Colorado Society of Eye Physicians and Surgeons, Denver Metro Optometric Society (DMOS), Colorado Medical Society, and the Join Commission on Allied Health Personnel in Ophthalmology (JCAHPO). Continuing education credits can be acquired via independent and sponsored lectures, or one-on-one opportunities shadowing our physicians in clinic. If you are interested in retina-focused CE please check the calendar for upcoming events, or book a CE/CME/ JCAHPO event for your office staff, fill out one of the contact boxes below to schedule with our marketing team.
We offer a variety of BENEFITS for our referring colleagues including:
Fill out the form to request 1-2 Colorado Retina physicians to provide your doctors or supporting staff with an in-person or virtual accredited CE, CME or JCAHPO retina-based course. If you have a recommendation for subject matter you’d like to learn more about, we encourage you to let us know.
We are always eager to put names to faces! If you are available, we would appreciate the opportunity to meet in a nonclinical setting. We want you to be able to refer with confidence to CRA, so let’s take some time to get to know one another, whether that be over lunch, dinner or happy hour – and it’s on us!
Sunday, February 28th, 2021 from 8:00am-10:30am MST will be Colorado Retina Associates 11th Annual Mile High Masters of Retina event, an accredited retina-based educational meeting geared towards primary eye care providers. This year, due to the global pandemic our meeting will be held virtually and in a shorter format than prior years. This meeting offers complimentary admission and COPE CE/CME credit to all licensed optometrists, ophthalmologists, primary care physicians, registered nurses and physician assistants in attendance. Sessions will be instructed in live-time by our retina specialists of Colorado Retina, a thirteen physician owned and led, vitreoretinal practice serving Colorado's Rocky Mountain region.
The program will include one keynote speaker and four rapid-fire mini-sessions concluding with either a live debate or panel discussion. Each session will cover a variety of vision-threatening retina, ocular tumor and/or uveitis conditions, presenting both common and complex cases. Mile High Masters of Retina provides attendees the opportunity to enhance ones knowledge of modern and innovative diagnostic and treatment approaches in retinal surgery and care as well as clinical research advancements within the field.
Upon conclusion of this activity, participants will be able to evaluate current approaches to the diagnosis and management of common retinal conditions, review when and how quickly to refer patients, as well as be able to examine situations to help prevent malpractice situations.
Please note, this course is open to all allied health and eye care professionals, such as imagers, technicians, scribes, clinic managers, etc. as an opportunity to gain and develop knowledge. However, due to accreditation restrictions, we cannot provide CE/CME credit to those who are not a licensed optometrist, physician, PA or RN.
This event is approved for 2.0 hours of AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ credit through Medical Education Resources and 2.0 hours of Live CE COPE credits provided by ARBO.
Once registered, closer to the meeting date each registered attendee will receive an email with your personalized meeting login credentials and detailed instructions on how to use the virtual event dashboard, Hubilo. Please note, we do ask that all attendees login to the meeting by 7:30am MST on 2/28/21 to get acquainted with the features. The meeting will start promptly at 8:00am MST, and will be in a rapid-fire format.
DATE: Sunday, February 28th, 2021
LOGIN TIME: 7:30am MST
MEETING TIME: 8:00am – 10:30 am MST
FORMAT: Live-Streamed Presentations
7:30 Early entrance to exhibit hall +event platform
8:00-8:07 EFFECTS OF PREGNANCY ON THE EYE
· Instructor: Ashleigh Levison, MD
8:08-8:15 WHEN MEDICAL TREATMENTS CAUSE UVEITIS
· Instructor: Mark Dacey, MD
8:16-8:26 Panel Discussion:WET AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION: SIGNS, SYMPTOMS & TREATMENT OPTIONS
· Moderator: Salil Shukla, MD
· Panelists: Mimi Liu, MD + Curtis Hagedorn, MD + Peter Hovland, MD, PhD
8:30 –8:37 GENE THERAPY VS. STEM CELL THERAPY
· Instructor: Curtis Hagedorn, MD
8:38 – 8:45 CHOROIDAL NEVUS: REFERRAL TIPS& TIMING
· Instructor: Peter G. Hovland, MD, PhD
8:46-8:56 PanelDiscussion: DIABETIC MACULAR EDEMA (DME) WITHOUT PROLIFERATIVE DIABETIC RETINOPATHY (PDR)
· Moderator: Brian Joondeph, MD
· Panelists: Ashleigh Levison, MD + Murtaza Adam, MD + Alan Kimura, MD
8:57-9:12 BREAK: Attendees encouraged to visit exhibit hall
9:12-9:28 COMPLEXITIES OF UVEITIS
· Keynote Speaker: Sunil Srivastava, MD - Retina & Uveitis Specialist at Cleveland Clinic
9:29-9:35 INNOVATING THE OPTOMETRIC REFERRAL
· Instructor: Betty Zhang, OD
9:39-9:46 FLOATERS CASE PRESENTATIONS
· Instructor: Brian Joondeph, MD
9:47-9:54 EMERGENT & SUBACUTE RETINAL DETACHMENT REPAIR
· Instructor: Miriah Teeter, MD
9:55-10:05 Debate: PNEUMATIC RETINOPEXY VS VITRECTOMY
· Moderator: Nancy Christmas, MD
· Debaters: Robert Courtney, MD + Miriah Teeter, MD
10:07-10:14 RISK FACTOR REVIEW FOR RETINAL VEIN OCCLUSION
· Instructor: Salil Shukla, MD
10:15-10:22 UPDATE ON PLAQUENIL AND ELMIRON SCREENING
· Instructor: David Johnson, MD
10:23-10:33 Debate: NPDR OBSERVATION VS TREATMENT (Anti-VEGF)
· Moderator: Alan Kimura, MD
· Debaters: Mimi Liu, MD + Murtaza Adam, MD
10:33 Dismiss Audience
10:33-11:00 Exhibit hall and networking lounge to remain open
New and chronic patients with advanced glaucoma present a host of difficulties for managing providers, this presentation will review these issues and some tips for managing these complex patients.
Neuro-ophthalmologist, Dr. Subramanian will spend the first half-hour investigating diplopia and its' complexities and evaluation approaches. Vitreoretinal Specialist, Dr. Shukla will wrap up the course with an in-depth review of management and treatment options surrounding lamellar macular holes.
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Coverage of pre and post-operative surgical advancements and management of a variety of common retinal procedures such as surgical repairs of epiretinal membranes, macular holes, vitreous hemorrhages, retinal detachments, retained lens material, and other complex surgical cases.
Review of the overall process that a unapproved drug or device completes before its approval by the FDA. Salient clinical trials addressing anterior segment pathology and important research for posterior segment disease will both be discussed.
Review of oral vs intravenous (IV) sedation for use in cataract surgery
The unfortunate cases of intravitreal autologous stem cell injections that resulted in multiple PVR detachments, as well as the promise associated with clinical applications of stem cell transplantation/therapy.
Addressing the decision making process for patients with glaucoma who have had prior incisional surgery, and options for obtaining a lower IOP and roll of newer surgical techniques and their success in the setting of prior traditional surgeries.
All things you need to know about diabetic management, including how to appropriately ask patients about A1C’s, current treatment and monitoring options of diabetes, and new advances within the field of endocrinology and diabetic retinopathy.
In this one hour presentation, Murtaza “Moo” Adam will discuss the bizarre world that lies beyond the “looking glass” of the ophthalmic operating microscope.
Dive into the many manifestations of ocular tumors through diagnosis based on patient history and examination, and diagnostic imaging.
Explore a variety of uveitis manifestations, underlying systemic diseases, presentation patterns & symptoms, the road to proper diagnosis, current treatment options, and the vision-threatening implications uveitis can have for patients.
Review of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT), an emerging technology for performing high-resolution cross-sectional optical imaging. Learn the technical aspects of OCT and potential issues that arise while interpreting data.
Dr. Adam reviewed the many inherited, toxic, and idiopathic maculopathies
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Review of common and uncommon peripheral retinal findings