Technology in eye care continues to evolve, creating new opportunities to improve diagnostic accuracy, clinical decision-making, and patient outcomes. Through case-based examples, this course explores the latest imaging, diagnostic, and treatment technologies and how they can enhance everyday patient care.

Getting started in myopia management can be overwhelming. This course provides a step-by-step blueprint for implementing myopia control in clinical practice, including treatment options, workflow integration, staff training, and patient selection. Attendees will also gain practical tools for communicating with parents and motivating families to commit to long-term myopia management.

This course debunks common myths surrounding miotic therapy for presbyopia, reviewing clinical evidence, patient outcomes, and practice integration strategies to help optometrists confidently incorporate miotics into modern presbyopia management. 

This session presents real world patient cases highlighting the use of serum tears in ocular surface disease. Through interactive case discussions, participants will learn how to integrate serum tears into practice and tailor treatment plans to achieve optimal patient outcomes. This clinically focused course emphasizes evidence based strategies and practical guidance for managing challenging cases.

This session provides a comprehensive introduction to autologous serum tears, a biologic therapy for ocular surface disease. Participants will review the composition, mechanism of action, evidence-based indications, and protocols for serum tears. The course emphasizes patient selection and clinical integration to optimize ocular surface outcomes.

The Great Lakes Private Practice Conference brings together optometry students and emerging ODs who are actively exploring private practice ownership and real-world business strategies.

Nutrition plays a critical role in visual performance and overall patient outcomes, yet it is often underutilized in everyday optometric care. This course explores how optometrists can use targeted nutritional strategies to support visual function, patient wellbeing, and long-term engagement across diverse patient populations. Through clinical examples—including women at different life stages and patients using GLP-1 medications—attendees will learn how to identify nutritional risk, communicate recommendations confidently, and integrate nutrition into a practical, repeatable care approach that enhances both vision and patient trust.

Effective dry eye care in primary practice requires treatment strategies that are realistic, adaptable, and sustainable for both the clinician and the patient. This course focuses on the practical management of dry eye disease in the primary care optometric setting. Practitioners will learn about treatment selection, patient education and follow up guidelines. Attendees will gain strategies to improve patient adherence, set realistic expectations, recognize when escalation of care is needed, and manage dry eye as a chronic condition within a busy practice environment.

Join Woo University’s Future Eyes Summit — a high-impact, half-day virtual event designed exclusively for 3rd/4th year optometry students and new grads. No fluff. Just real-world strategies, candid advice, and clinical + career clarity to help you launch a new chapter with confidence.

Dry eye disease is one of the most common conditions encountered in primary eye care, yet diagnosis can feel challenging in busy clinics. This course simplifies the process by providing a systematic approach to diagnosis. 

Join Woo U for a unique Scleral Lens "Office Hours", where practitioners are encouraged to submit real clinical cases of specialty contact lens patients where they experience a challenge or difficulty in the fitting process. Several cases will be selected and presented to a live panel of specialty lens experts who will then review each case and provide feedback. Attendees will have the opportunity to participate in a live interaction with the experts by asking live questions and gathering expert insights.

The most recent addition to our treatment armamentarium for presbyopia is the use of pharmaceutical agents that induce pupil miosis which results in an extended depth of focus to improve near vision. Contact lenses have been a mainstay in presbyopia management. This course will explore how new pharmaceutical options can optimize outcomes in the treatment of presbyopia when used in combination with a variety of contact lens modalities.   

Presbyopia is a condition that affects nearly everyone over the age of 45.   Traditional treatment options like eyeglasses and contact lenses  are not ideal options for all patients.  Recently pharmacologic options have come to the market.  This lecture will review and update the pharmacologic treatment options for presbyopia. 

This course highlights the intersection of eye care and whole-body wellness, examining how visual dysfunction can contribute to widespread public health issues such as chronic headache, dizziness, car sickness, and neck pain. Through an integrative optometry lens, participants will explore diagnostic strategies, therapeutic interventions, and collaborative care models that address both visual and systemic symptoms to improve patient quality of life.

Dry eye is a multifactorial disease with numerous diagnostic and treatment options available. This lecture will discuss novel treatment strategies for ocular surface disease/DED. Treatment options covered will include pharmacologic agents, amniotic membranes, intense pulsed light, radiofrequency, photobiomodulation, and meibomian gland expression technologies.

Getting the perfect fit achieved for you specialty lens patient is just the beginning.  In order for the patient to be successful, you have to make sure that the eyes and the lenses are being properly cared for in order to maximize the patient experience and maximize your practice’s revenue potential.   

A correct and timely diagnosis of dry eye is essential in deciding on the protocol for treatment. Learn best practices in patient questionnaires and surveys, clinical signs, and symptoms, and using tools and technology to assess and ensure prompt dry eye diagnosis. Also to be discussed are common challenges in dry eye diagnosis, including possible masqueraders.

This course provides a practical, evidence informed framework for optometrists to evaluate, initiate, and monitor pharmacologic treatment for presbyopia. Through a structured, step by step approach, clinicians will learn how to identify ideal candidates, conduct baseline testing, implement safe prescribing protocols, and manage patient follow-up. Emphasis will be placed on patient centered care and how to counsel patients on realistic expectations for a successful outcome. 

Everyone is going to get cataracts, everyone is going to get presbyopic and everyone will get dry eye syndrome. This course will focus on real world management and what is new for the practical approach to dry eye. 

A comprehensive overview of contact lens complications in primary care optometry, includingsoft, RGP, hybrid, and scleral lenses, with emphasis on clinical recognition, differentialdiagnosis, patient management, and prevention strategies.

Presbyopia is a condition that affects nearly everyone over the age of 45. Traditional treatment options like eyeglasses and contact lenses are not ideal options for all patients. Recently pharmacologic options have come to the market. This lecture will review and update the pharmacologic treatment options for presbyopia.

Explore cutting edge keratoconus research and the breakthroughs shaping tomorrow’s treatments.