2024 NOA Convention Schedule

6:30 pm

8:30 pm

Pennsylvania College of Optometry Alumni Reception at City Winery

8:00 am

3:00 pm

Henry Moore Golf Tournament

8:00 am

3:00 pm

Community Service Event (Serve Where You Go) Sponsored by VSP

1:00 pm

5:30 pm

Board Members tour begins with main campus (Salus) and followed by board meeting and tour Pennsylvania College of Optometry & Eye Institute

3:30 pm

4:30 pm

NOA Board Meeting – At Pennsylvania College of Optometry & Eye Institute

4:00 pm

6:00 pm

Doctors Early Check in (Optional)

5:00 pm

8:00 pm

Exhibitor Load-In

5:00 pm

9:00 pm

Versant Health Lab Tour & Dinner

5:30 pm

6:30 pm

NOA Board and Corporate Partners Meet & Greet

7:00 pm

9:00 pm

Johnson & Johnson Empowering Diversity in Optometry Panel Event and Reception
Moderated by Charissa Lee, OD​

7:00 am

8:00 am

Registration, Breakfast, and Exhibit Hall Opens

7:20 am

7:50 am

Dompe Medical Sponsor Level Presentation (30 minutes)
Joseph Guan, PharmD, MBA
Review Neurotrophic Keratitis in Clinical Practice

8:00 am

9:40 am

2 Hr. CE – Joy Harewood, OD
Retina Review & Re-New: Highlights for the Primary Eye Care Provider

9:40 am

10:10 am

Break with Exhibitors – Silent Auction Display Opens

10:10 am

11:50 am

​2 Hr. CE – Ashley Tucker, OD, FAAO, FSLS, ABO Diplomate Myopia Management: The Past, Present, and Future

11:50 am

1:10 pm

Lunch & Break with Exhibitors – Silent Auction Display

12:00 pm

12:30 pm

Cooper Vision Onyx Level Sponsor Presentation (15 minutes)

12:15 pm

12:30 pm

Essilor Luxottica Onyx Level Sponsor Presentation (15 minutes)

1:10 pm

2:00 pm

1 Hr. CE – Ashley Tucker, OD, FAAO, FSLS, ABO Diplomate Update on the Diagnosis and Management of Dry Eye Syndrome

2:00 pm

2:30 pm

​Break with Exhibitors – Silent Auction Display

2:30 pm

Exhibit Hall Closes – Auction Bidding Closes

2:30 pm

3:20 pm

1 Hr. CE – Joy Harewood, OD, FAAO, Dipl ABO
Posterior Uveitis: A Toolkit for the Primary Eye Care Provider​

3:30 pm

4:20 pm

3:30 pm

5:30 pm

NOA Business Meeting I & II

6:00 pm

7:00 pm

College Receptions

7:00 pm

9:30 pm

NOSA Scholarship Award Ceremony/Dinner

9:30 pm

1:00 am

NOSA/ NOA Social Event-Sponsored by VSP

6:00 am

7:15 am

Dr. Will Kelly’s Memorial Scholarship Fun Run Event – (Meet in the lobby of the hotel)

7:00 am

8:00 am

Registration, Continental Breakfast, and Exhibit Hall Opens

7:20 am

7:50 am

​Bausch and Lomb Sponsor Level Presentation (30 minutes)
Adam Ramsey OD
Returning to Homeostasis: Approaching Dry Eye Disease Treatment from Many Angles

8:00 am

9:40 am

2 Hr. CE – Jonathan A. Stevens, OD, FAAO
Chapter 7 The Mystery of: “The Patient Uncorrectable to 20/20”

9:40 am

10:10 am

Break with Exhibitors – Silent Auction Display

10:10 am

11:50 am

2 Hr. CE Credit – Vincent Young, MD
Cataract Surgery in 2024 and Evolving Co-management Responsibilities

11:50 am

1:10 pm

Lunch & Break with Exhibitors (2/15-minute onyx slots) – Silent Auction Display; Auction Closes at 1:10​

12:15 pm

12:30 pm

Johnson and Johnson Onyx Level Sponsor Presentation (15 minutes)
Jeff Cofie, OD and Rob Rosenthal, OD

12:30 pm

12:45 pm

VSP Onyx Level Sponsor Presentation
Shenai Alexander, Reg Carter, Lynn Morris​

1:10 pm

2:00 pm

1 Hr. CE Credit – Breanne McGhee, OD, MEd, FAAO
Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies​

2:00 pm

2:30 pm

Break with Exhibitors – Silent Auction Display

2:30 pm

Exhibit Hall Closes – Auction Bidding Closes

2:30 pm

3:20 pm

1 Hr. CE – Breanne McGhee, OD, MEd, FAAO Wake the Health Up:
The Impacts of Diet & Nutrition on Systemic & Ocular Health

3:30 pm

​1 Hr. CE – Ashleigh​ Yates, OD, FAAO Updates in Pediatrics and Vision Therapy

4:30 pm

5:15 pm

NOF Annual Board Meeting

4:30 pm

5:30 pm

Student Speed Netting Hosted by Black Eye Care Perspective

6:15 pm

7:00 pm

NOA Reception – Auction Winners Announced​

6:30 pm

6:33 pm

Alcon Diamond Level Sponsor Introduction (3 minutes)

6:33 pm

6:36 pm

Walmart Gold Level Sponsor Introduction (3 minutes)

6:36 pm

6:39 pm

Johnson and Johnson Gold Level Sponsor Introduction (3 minutes)

7:00 pm

9:30 pm

Awards Banquet and installation of new officers

8:00 am

9:00 am

Prayer Breakfast

9:00 am

9:50 am

1 Hr. CE – Phillip Aitsiboamo, OD
Ocular Prosthetics for Seeing and Non-seeing Eye

10:00 am

10:50 am

1 Hr. CE – Phillip Aitsiboamo, OD
Rigid Gas Permeable Lens Options for My Patients

11:00 am

11:50 am

1 Hr. CE  – Kefla Brown/Pediatrics
Pediatrics  Horses and Zebras: Common and Not-so-Common Etiologies of Pediatric Uveitis

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11:50 am

Convention is concluded