The Australasian College of Behavioural Optometrists National Conference (NACBO) will take place from 9 to 11 July 2021 at the QT Hotel on the Gold Coast in sunny Queensland.
“NACBO 2021 is a must do! It is the first opportunity in two years for ACBO members to meet in person with colleagues and friends in a casual and family-friendly environment with over 10 hours of continuing education,” said Auckland optometrist and ACBO president Evan Brown.
The programme includes an exciting mix of keynote presentations and joint workshops for optometrists and vision therapists, said Brown. His top picks include:
- Internationally renowned optometrists Drs Robert Sanet (US) and Pilar Vergara (Spain) who will discuss a “paradigm shift in eyecare”, a revolutionary system of amblyopia treatment without patching
- A three-hour compendium lecture, Leading with vision, including case presentations and group discussions led by ACBO fellow Michael Smith and internationally renowned physical therapist Associate Professor Victoria Graham from California State University (US). The lecture offers practical strategies for visual therapy to address learning-related vision issues that translates more rapidly into function
- Professor Paul Harris, Southern College of Optometry, Memphis (US), who will present current clinical initiatives for measuring visual acuity in non-verbal patients; tablet and home-based visual field testing
- ACBO fellow Liz Wason on dizziness, vertigo assessment and management including prescription, prisms, chromatic filters, binasal occlusion and vision therapy
- Christine Nearchou, senior lecturer with the University of Melbourne School of Optometry and Vision Sciences, who will share the latest evidence in her talk, Should we be routinely testing visual information processing skills, and discuss her research on vision assessment and dyslexia
- ACBO fellow Beverley Sacho on nutrition and the microbiome, and their relationship to brain function, inflammation and autoimmunity
Due to the changeable health and travel situation in Australia and New Zealand, the ACBO Board has decided that NACBO will be a hybrid event, enabling virtual attendance as well as in person, allowing ACBO members who cannot travel to listen and participate. For more, see: https://www.acbo.org.au/professionals/menu/events/145-nacbo-2021
