Visting Las Vegas

Just got back from the Global Specialty Lens Symposium (GSLS) in Las Vegas. It was a great event and the organizing team headed by Craig Norman did a great job. Of particular importance to our field was the myopia section presented on The first day of the general sessions. This presentation consisted of Earl Smith of UHCO and Don Mutti of OSU giving their opposing viewpoints on myopia progression and cause. I congratulate both of them for an entertaining show. It is of particular importance that both presenters recommended intervention of corneal reshaping and special bifocal SCLs early in myopia development. Both Earl and Don felt that perhaps fifty percent reduction in eye elongation was a reasonable goal considering the eye normally elongates into adulthood .

While in Las Vegas I met with many of our exhibitors and detailed what we were expecting for our meeting. I am happy to report that this year we are working more closely then ever with Bausch & Lomb and Paragon Vision Sciences to promote Vision By Design 2012. I am also thrilled to tell you that we have close to thirty exhibitors this year. That means that attendees to our event will have a lot of booths to visit during our meeting.

Great meeting and excellent cuisine highlighted my stay in the city that never sleeps. While at the GSLS I had meetings with our colleagues from EurOK and we were able to lend them support for their first European Ortho-K meeting taking place in Madrid this June. As your President I also met with the leadership of GSLS about more cooperation between our two groups.

Cary M Herzberg O.D. FOAA