Optos to Host Educational Initiatives at Optometry’s Meeting™
19.06.2006
MARLBOROUGH, MA, June 19, 2006 – Optos will host key educational initiatives at this year’s Optometry’s Meeting™ (AOA 2006) taking place in Las Vegas, NV,
June 22-24, 2006.
Optos will hold its Optos Academy XT meeting on Tuesday, June 20. The program, “Trends & Technology in Retinal Disease Detection & Management”, is for new and current Optos Partners, primary eye care physicians and interested staff and technicians. The program will focus on various topics related to using technologies including the optomap® Retinal Exam and will feature key speakers, William Jones, OD, David Nelson, OD, MBA, Jerome Sherman, OD, FAAO; and Kim Castleberry, OD.
On Thursday, June 22 Optos will sponsor an AOA Breakfast Seminar for complimentary CE titled, “Advanced Techniques for Using optomap® Technology” which will cover techniques and best practices developed to enable practitioners to achieve the highest level of success with the optomap® Retinal Exam. Speakers will include William Jones, OD and Richard Noyes, OD.
In addition, Optos will periodically host “Meet the Experts” forums in its booth, #531 featuring various speakers and covering topics such as “Using the optomap® Retinal Exam in Conjunction with the InfantSee™ Program,” “optomap® plus Medical Retinal Exam for Reimbursable Procedures,” “The optomap® Retinal Exam – True Digital Panoramic Ophthalmoscopy,” and “Conclusions from a Multi-Center, Open, Non Randomized Comparison Trial of Standard and Steered optomap® Retinal Exam and BIO”.
The optomap® Retinal Exam will also be featured in the following courses during Optometry’s Meeting:
‘Retina Grand Rounds: Taking Advantage of Technology,’ Jeffry Gerson, OD and Kimberly Lambreghts, OD, Friday, June 23, 10:00 am and AOA Technology Theater, “Case Management in Technology-Integrated Practice”, Ian Lane, OD, Friday, June 23, noon. The optomap® Retinal Exam will also be featured in The Practice of the Future, booth #167.
About Optos plc
Optos is incorporated in Scotland under the Companies Act 1985 with registered number SC139953 and with its subsidiaries collectively is known as Optos plc. Founded in 1992 Optos plc is a leading medical technology company for the design, development, manufacturing and marketing of devices able to image the retina, the light-sensitive area at the back of the eye. Optos’ platform technology is the Panoramic200 Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscope device – known as the P200. In a quarter of a second the P200 device produces a high resolution image of up to 200 degrees or approximately 82 percent of the retina in a single capture. The image – branded the optomap® Retinal Exam – provides eye care practitioners with clinically useful information that facilitates the early detection of disorders and diseases evidenced in the retina. Optos believes that its technology provides an unequalled combination of wide-field retinal imaging, speed and convenience for both practitioner and patient. Optos plc is headquartered in Dunfermline, Scotland and currently has approximately 220 employees serving more than 2,250 customers in four country markets – USA, Canada, UK and Germany. To date over 7.5 million optomap® Retinal Exams have been conducted. Optos plc trades on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange under the symbol OPTS.