Low Vision Educators Special Interest Group

Low Vision Educators Special Interest Group

Met: July 10-11, 2021; Virtual

Chair(s): Katie Boland, UMSLCO (chair); Swati Moti, UHCO (chair-elect)

Actions:

• Approved minutes from Fall LV Educators SIG meeting (virtual)
• Voted for next year’s steering committee members and leadership
• Announced time and date of Fall AAO SIG meeting in Boston: Thursday, November 4, 2021; 6:30 a.m. - 8 a.m. EST (location TBD)
• Made announcement of next year’s Summer meeting at MCPHS

Topics Discussed/Speakers:

• Collaborative Programming (Nicole Ross, NECO)
• iBook Updates (via note from Richard Jamara, NECO)
• Clinical Education, LV Section, Interim Survey Results (Nicole Ross, NECO & Rebecca Marinoff, SUNY)
• Sub-Specialization Task Force (Kierstyn Napier-Dovorany, WUCO, with introduction by David Heath, SUNY, ASCO Board Liaison)

Further discussions:

• Relevant AAO & AOA section meetings as well as AAO Diplomate process for LV
• LV & NBEO Part 3
• Updating Entry Level Competencies
• New CPT coding rubric

Sponsors:  Mattingly Low Vision, Lighthouse for the Blind Industries (St. Louis), Spark Therapeutics, and Envision University

• Sponsor presentation: Spark Therapeutics (Dan Burkhard, Genetic Diagnostic Liaison for the Midwest)

Contact LaShawn Sidbury, Director of Meetings and SIGs, for additional questions.