Daily Schedule

7:00 AM - 8:00 AM Continental Breakfast & Coffee

7:00 AM - 5:00 PM Registration Desk Open

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Anterior Segment Cases that Fooled Us All

8:00 AM - 10:00 AM Neuro Eye Grand Rounds: My Favorite Cases

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM How to Handle Non-Ocular in Office Emergencies

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Overview of Photobiomodulation Advances for the Eye Care Provider

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Vestibular Treatment of Strabismus

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM OCT Grand Rounds

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Sponsored Lunches - Preregistration Required to Attend

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Orbiting the Globe: A Grand Rounds Adventure in Comprehensive Optometry

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Vision Therapy Sequencing, a Binocular Approach

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Retina Brainteaser Cases

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM To Image or Not to Image

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Welcome Reception & Exhibit Hall Opening

7:00 PM - 8:00 PM AOA Dinner

8:30 PM Presidents' Reception - Invitation Only

7:00 AM - 8:00 AM Continental Breakfast & Coffee

7:00 AM - 4:00 PM Registration Desk Open

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Tropical Eye-Sights: Conversations on Ocular Surface Disease and Aesthetics

8:00 AM - 10:00 AM Glaucoma Update - Enough Pearls to Make a Necklace

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM It's All About the Lids: Demodex, MGD and More

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Presidents' Council

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Current and Future Considerations for CXL, NK and NCP

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Concussion Demystified: Understanding Concussion and TBIs

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Genetic Pathways for Macular Degeneration

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Oculoplastics Role in Anterior Segment Disease

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Sponsored Lunches - Preregistration Required to Attend

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM The Non-Healing Cornea - Neurotrophic Keratitis

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Surgical Mythbusters

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Exhibit Hall Marketplace Open

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Nutrition in Ocular Disease Beyond Carotenoids

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Rapid Fire Referrals

6:30 PM 2026 Awards Reception - Preregistration Required to Attend

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM OOPA Advocacy Meeting

9:00 PM - 12:00 AM OOPA Hospitality Event

7:00 AM - 8:00 AM Continental Breakfast & Coffee

7:00 AM - 4:00 PM Registration Desk Open

8:00 AM - 5:00 PM Student Program

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Maximizing Contact Lens Practice Success

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM PARA Education: Eyes, Eyes, Baby

8:00 AM - 10:00 AM Metabolic Drivers of Ocular Damage: Muscle Health, and Antioxidants in Disease and Prevention

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Dry Eye Jeopardy!

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PARA Education: Every Dolla' Makes Me Holla'

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pharmaceutical Update Innovations and Insights for Eye Care

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Fact vs Fiction - Tackling Common Contact Lens Myths

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PARA Education: I have a Thing and I Need to See the Doctor NOW - or do you?

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Much Ado About Contact

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM State & Student Networking Event

12:00 PM - 3:00 PM Exhibit Hall Marketplace

2:00 PM - 5:00 PM Presidents' Council

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM How to Heal When You Can't Feel

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM PARA Education: Tools of the Trade

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Latest Advances in Eye Care Technology: Innovations in Early Detection and Management

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Scleral Lenses - The Future is Now

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM PARA Education: What Your Insurance Biller Wished you Knew

7:00 AM - 8:00 AM Continental Breakfast & Coffee

7:30 AM - 12:00 PM Registration Open

8:00 AM - 10:00 AM Light and Hormone Regulation: How to Feel Your Best

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Caution Steep Hill Ahead: Diagnosing and Managing Keratoconus in Clinical Practice

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Putting the "I" in Eyecare

12:00 PM Congress Concludes