National Glaucoma Society: Conferences

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The Masters of Cornea - March 30, 2025

You will be able to see the PowerPoint presentation, hear the lecture and submit questions to the speaker. All you need is a computer, smart phone or tablet with an Internet connection. Please Note: You need to see the lecture slides and hear the speaker in order to receive CE credit.

These lectures are COPE Accredited as Synchronous Virtual courses and will be submitted to COPE for accreditation as a COPE Synchronous Virtual activity. Check the website of your State Board for the most current information regarding acceptance of Synchronous Virtual Courses.

The Early Bird rate for this Webinar is $125.00 through Sunday, March 15, 2025. After March 15th, the fee is $135.00. The webinars are free for Full Members of the National Glaucoma Society.

Registration will close at 9 p.m. Eastern time on Saturday March 29, 2025. Registration is required for both NGS members and non-members. Be sure to register with an email address that you check regularly, as you will get the meeting password, meeting number and link to the webinar e-mailed to you.

Please make sure your OE Tracker number is included in your profile on the NGS website when you register for this webinar. We also will email CE certificates to attending doctors. For doctors with a Texas license, we will post the attendance data to CE Broker.

Cancellation Policy: Cancellations made by Wednesday March 26, 2025 can receive a refund, less a $10 processing fee, or apply the full registration fee to a future program. No refunds given after Wednesday March 26, 2025. To cancel, notify the National Glaucoma Society in writing by email (info@NationalGlaucomaSociety.org).

Early Bird

Rate: $125

Full members
You must be signed in as a full member of the NGS to select this option

Rate: $0

After March 15 Regular rate

Rate: $135

Sunday, March 30, 2025

9:00am–9:50am

Dr. Selina McGee

Selina McGee, OD

Managing Complex Ocular Surface Disease

10:00am–10:50am

Dr. Eric Donnenfeld

Eric Donnenfeld, MD

Advances in the Surgical Management of Corneal Disease

11:00am–11:50am

Dr. Brandon Ayres

, Brandon Ayres, MD

The Best Corneal Cases of 2024: The Ultimate Grand Rounds

12:00pm–12:50pm

Dr. Jim Thimons

Jim Thimons, OD

The ABC’s of Treating Corneal Infectious Disease

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News

Membership Changes

Yearly memberships are no longer going to be a requirement for NGS. We will continue to offer Webinars on a regular basis, on a pay as you register event. Current active memberships will be honored until they expire. Thank you for your continued support.

NGS WEBINARS 2025

Webinars will begin in January 2025. Happy Thanksgiving

NGS PROGRAMS FALL 2023

The NGS Wednesday webinars will begin on September 13 with two webinars a month in September through December. There also will be an in-person program on October 8 in Malvern, PA with 8 hours of CE. All programs will be submitted for COPE approval. (Please Note: There are no NGS programs this summer.)

NGS WEBINARS SPRING 2023

NGS webinars will take place twice a month in March to May, 2023, followed by a break from the webinars over the summer.

NEW HAMPSHIRE INDICATES LIVE WEBINARS = FORMAL CE

The New Hampshire Board of Optometry announced in August 2022 that courses approved by COPE are automatically approved as Class I Formal CE. In addition, they clarified that live webcasts with real-time active participation by attendees are Formal CE, the same as in-person programs. In contrast, Alternative CE refers to lectures that are not live. More details are on the NH Board of Optometry website under Laws and Rules, Standing Orders.

COPE RULES FOR INTERACTIVE WEBINARS 2023

As of January 2023, COPE will include interactive webinars in the same category as in-person lectures, with no post-test required. CE will be categorized as either Synchronous (lecturer and learner are together at the same time, either in-person or virtually, with real-time communication) or Asynchronous (lecturer and learner are not together at same time, no real-time communication). Interactive webinars will be labeled Synchronous Virtual CE for courses and activities submitted after January 1 (interactive webinars approved before January 1 may still be labeled Online Interactive courses or Interactive Distance Learning events). Please Note: State Boards may restrict the number of Synchronous Virtual hours of CE allowed for license renewal; check with your State Board for the latest regulations.

LIVE WEBINARS = LIVE CE IN MASSACHUSETTS

At their December 15, 2021 meeting, the Massachusetts Board of Optometry specified that a live webinar where speakers and attendees can interact in real-time are considered to be live CE. The Board clarified that distance learning CE courses, which are limited to 6 hours per renewal cycle, are those where the licensees are reading content or observing media on their own with no interaction with the instructor. Thus, the COPE-approved interactive NGS webinars count as live CE for MA optometrists.

CE BROKER FOR TEXAS OPTOMETRISTS

The NGS will submit attendance data to CE Broker for Texas optometrists who attend our webinars. We will continue to mail CE certificates so attendees have a copy for their records and also will send attendance data to ARBO's OE Tracker.

PENNSYLVANIA CE REGULATIONS

The Pennsylvaia Board of Optometry will allow all CE to be online for the renewal period that ends November 30, 2022. Starting December 1, 2022, revised regulations allow for up to 50% of the CE requirements (15 out of 30 ours) to be online.

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