STILL NEED TO FULFILL YOUR 2024 ABO CE REQUIREMENTS?
As 2024 is winding down, now’s the time to gear up and end the year with a boost to your ABO continuing education requirements. UUniversity™ makes it easy to get the credits you need, and you’ll receive 1 hour of ABO credit for each course you complete, after passing the online exam. Plus, it’s absolutely FREE!
Mark your calendars for the following dates:
Thursday, 12/12 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. PST
Wednesday, 12/18 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. PST
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Recommending the Best For Success
Thursday, 12/12 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. PST (ABO-G) Non-ophthalmic
During this discussion, we’ll present a series of techniques for delivering recommendations to your patients, by helping them understand the benefits of such. We’ll also explore a selection of highly successful approaches which can be utilized to help reveal your patients’ daily visual needs and demands, to help facilitate best eyewear recommendations.
AR Coatings - How They Do Their Thing: ABO-T/ Level II
Wednesday, 12/18 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. PST (ABO-T) Ophthalmic Level II
This course will discuss the science of light theory and the visual system, examine the reflective properties of ophthalmic lenses, provide a brief overview of how AR coatings have evolved over the years, and then explore the design and manufacturing process, together with the many benefits they provide your patients. We’ll conclude our discussion with a few tips for recommending AR coated lenses; as we assert in all our courses, every patient will benefit from an AR coated lens.
Presented by Andrew S. Bruce, LDO, ABOM, NCLEM, FCLSA, FNAO
Andrew Bruce is Washington State Licensed Dispensing Optician and Contact Lens Fitting Specialist. He holds a Masters in both Ophthalmic Optics and Contact Lens Technology, and has over 25 years of experience in private practice and management.
Andrew loves to teach and is a nationally recognized speaker and industry consultant, and a prolific, internationally published technical writer and CE author, having published numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals. He is an ABO/NCLE advanced level speaker and approved by the American Optometric Association to provide CPC continuing education, as well as a COPE approved speaker.
Andrew was named a 2023 and 2024 Contact Lens Institute Visionary and, in 2023, became a Fellow of The Contact Lens Society of America. He has served on several ANSI Z80 sub-committees, the Washington State Dispensing Optician Examination Committee, and the Board of Directors for the Contact Lens Society of America (CLSA), for which he continues to serve as Technical Advisor and Education Consultant for their Eye Witness publication. In addition, he was a Contributing Author and Executive Editor for two academic textbooks published by the Contact Lens Society of America, as well as The Technical Advisor and Contributing Editor for The Optical Training Institute’s online Contact Lens Dispensing Course.
Most recently, he was appointed to the Board of Directors for The National Academy of Opticianry. He is an Adjunct Instructor at Portland Community College in Portland, Oregon, for the Optician Assistant Training Program he developed. Also, Andrew finds great reward in serving as a volunteer instructor for the State of Oregon's Coffee Creek Women's Correctional Facility's Optical Training Program, as well as the Oregon Vision Coalition: a volunteer-based, non-profit group committed to supporting a comprehensive approach to meeting the eye health needs of the state of Oregon.
In 2017, he established his company, ASB Opticianry Education Services, with a mission to provide consulting and learning experiences that cultivate independent growth, development, and success. His training programs have helped many gain their ABO/NCLE certification, and Washington State Dispensing Optician License.