Meet the Experts

Course Description

Wills Eye Hospital's Meet the Experts activity offers the latest presentation of procedures, research, and diagnosis & treatment of an array of clinically important ocular conditions. This activity is composed of individual lectures from Wills Eye Hospital experts.

Learning Objectives

• Clinically identify infectious scleritis and understand its primary risk factors and causes.
• Describe and integrate the benefits of a surgical versus a medical approach to infectious scleritis.
• Describe different treatment options for macular edema in patients with uveitis.

• Discuss risks of intravitreal injections in the treatment of uveitic macular edema.
• Review randomized clinical trials of steroid injections for uveitic macular edema.
• Assess the efficacy and safety of new approaches in glaucoma management.

• Describe and integrate the basics of ordering CT and MRI for the orbit.
• Describe and integrate how to interpret the studies.
• Describe and integrate special techniques (CTA, MRA, MRV, FLAIR) that are useful in specific disease entities.

• Diagnose uveal melanoma.
• Detect high risk uveal nevus.
• Protect physicians’ online reputations with common techniques to support promoters, address critics, engage in social media, and establish a positive internet presence; effectively address negative comments, which may otherwise ruin a physician's professional reputation and practice success.

Accreditation Statement

Wills Eye Hospital is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education to physicians. Wills Eye Hospital designates this internet live educational activity for a maximum of 2.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Disclosure Statement

It is the policy of Wills Eye Hospital that the information presented at Wills Eye Hospital's CME activities will be commercially unbiased and based on scientific and clinical evidence. To help participants make judgments about the presence of commercial bias, Wills Eye Hospital will provide information that planners and speakers have disclosed about financial relationships they have with commercial entities that produce, market, or re-sell products or services related to the content of this CME activity. This disclosure information will be made available on the website and is available for download. 

Claiming CME Credit

After the conclusion of the activity, attendees will receive an email with a link to a brief request for credit survey. Learners will have up to six weeks to claim CME credit. If you have any questions, please contact the Wills Eye Hospital Department of CME at 215.440.3168 or at continuingeducation@willseye.org.