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ECHO-Chicago: Vision Loss Prevention and Mitigation in Adults
November 6, 2024 to December 18, 2024
In collaboration with the nation’s leading volunteer eye health and safety organization, Prevent Blindness, ECHO-Chicago has developed a virtual 6-week training program that will provide an evidence-based approach to improve and empower PCPs with knowledge and confidence to deliver better healthcare across the lifespan, promote the prevention of vision disorders, and improve healthcare for patients who are visually impaired or those patients at risk of losing vision. Sessions will include short didactic presentations followed by participant-led case presentations. The goal of this activity is to increase the workforce capacity of primary care clinicians who are working to improve healthcare for patients who are visually impaired or those patients at risk of losing vision.
Target Audience
This activity is designed for community-based primary care providers interested in providing care to patients who are visually impaired or those patients at risk of losing vision.
Learning Objectives
After this activity, participants will be able to:
- Recall common co-morbid mental health conditions associated with vision impairment;
- Recognize functional vision impairment and key screening questions;
- State how to improve interprofessional communication between primary care clinicians and eye care providers in community health centers;
- Illustrate the impact of cataracts on the eye and the importance of education and early detection in cataract management;
- Describe ways to advocate for expanding vision services among primary care clinicians in community health centers;
- Explain strategies to increase education and self-efficacy among primary care providers in community health centers to help prevent and mitigate vision loss and blindness across the lifespan through referrals and follow-up;
- Outline the role of eye care providers in conducting further testing for functional vision, including for reading, color vision, and focusing deficiencies and anomalies;
- Evaluate the role of gender, behavior, and hormones on inequities and the importance of education and early detection in reducing gender differences in vision and eye health.
Available credit:
- 6.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 6.00 Participation
Event starts:
11/06/2024 - 12:00pm
Event ends:
12/18/2024 - 1:00pm
Activity opens:
12/18/2024
Activity expires:
03/18/2025
Add to calendar:
No | Sessions | Topic |
1 | 11/6/24 | Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) |
2 | 11/13/24 | Diabetes, Hypertension, and Eye Health |
3 | 11/20/24 | Diabetes |
4 | 12/4/24 | Glaucoma |
5 | 12/11/24 | Cataracts, Autoimmune, and Dry Eye |
6 | 12/18/24 | Vision Rehabilitation, Assistive Devices, and Community Resources |
*The agenda is subject to change.
Online Webinar
Chicago, IL
United States
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WANT TO KNOW MORE?
To learn more about the ECHO-Chicago curricula, visit our website.
ACCESSIBILITY The University of Chicago is committed to providing equal access appropriate to need and circumstances and complies fully with legal requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act. If you are in need of special accommodation, please contact ECHO-Chicago via e-mail via at echo@peds.bsd.uchicago.edu.
The University of Chicago reserves the right to cancel or postpone this conference due to unforeseen circumstances. In the unlikely event this activity must be cancelled or postponed, the registration fee will be refunded; however, The University of Chicago is not responsible for any related costs, charges, or expenses to participants, including fees assessed by airline/travel/lodging agencies.
FACULTY
![Janet Garza, OD, FAAO, ABO Janet Garza, OD, FAAO, ABO headshot](https://cme.uchicago.edu/sites/default/files/media/2024-07/Janet%20Garza_0.jpg)
Clinical Assistant Professor
Coordinator, Primary Care Optometry Residency Program
Clinical Director, UH Eye Center-Heights
University of Houston
Disclosure Declarations
As a provider accredited by the ACCME, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine asks everyone in a position to control the content of an education activity to disclose all financial relationships with any ineligible companies. This includes any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Financial relationships are relevant if a financial relationship, in any amount, exists between the person in control of content and an ineligible company during the past 24 months, and the content of the education is related to the products of an ineligible company with whom the person has a financial relationship. Mechanisms are in place to identify and mitigate any relevant financial relationships prior to the start of the activity.
Additionally, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine requires Authors to identify investigational products or off-label uses of products regulated by the US Food and Drug Administration at first mention and where appropriate in the content.
As a provider accredited by the ACCME, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine asks everyone in a position to control the content of an education activity to disclose all financial relationships with any ineligible companies. This includes any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Financial relationships are relevant if a financial relationship, in any amount, exists between the person in control of content and an ineligible company during the past 24 months, and the content of the education is related to the products of an ineligible company with whom the person has a financial relationship. Mechanisms are in place to identify and mitigate any relevant financial relationships prior to the start of the activity.
Additionally, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine requires Authors to identify investigational products or off-label uses of products regulated by the US Food and Drug Administration at first mention and where appropriate in the content.
Physician Credit
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 6 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Other Participant Credit
Other participants will receive a Certificate of Participation. For information on the applicability and acceptance of Certificates of Participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by the ACCME, please consult your professional licensing board.
Other participants will receive a Certificate of Participation. For information on the applicability and acceptance of Certificates of Participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by the ACCME, please consult your professional licensing board.
Please Note: The credit claiming process will close three months after the conference end date. Requests to claim credit after three months will be subject to additional fees.
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Registration: For more information about ECHO-Chicago, visit the program website below.
ECHO-CHICAGO WEBSITE
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