Northeast Congress of Optometry
The annual behavioral optometry conference of New England
2022 Conference
12 hours of COPE-approved education
In person and Virtual options available
Sunday, Sept 11 - Monday, Sept 12, 2022
2022 Speakers
Ray Gottlieb
Ray Gottlieb, O.D., Ph.D. graduated from the U.C. Berkeley, School of Optometry in 1964. His optometry practice focused on a unique blend of vision, movement cognitive training to help patients with learning, attention and reading problems, strabismus, traumatic brain injury, myopia and presbyopia and low vision. Dr. Gottlieb has been the Dean of the College of Syntonic Optometry since 1985. He served the faculty of three universities, two psychiatric hospitals, and a low vision center. He was the research editor for Brain/Mind Bulletin. In 1980, he conceived of and opened the “Eye Gym” in Santa Monica, CA.
In 1971, he eliminated his myopia using Bates practices. He prevented his presbyopia using a method he invented (The Read Without Glasses Method). He has written two books: Attention and Memory Training: Stress-point learning on the trampoline (2005), and The Fundamentals of Flow in Learning Music, with Prof. Rebecca Penneys (1994). His Ph.D. dissertation: A Neuropsychology of Nearsightedness (1977), and many journal articles and book chapters. Dr. Gottlieb lectures about vision, health and learning to scientists, educators, health professionals and the public in the U.S. and abroad. Dr. Gottlieb is now retired from optometry. He lives in Florida where he researches, writes, swims, gardens and invents and practices eye/brain/body exercises on a sunny, Gulf of Mexico beach.
2022 Program
Sunday, September 11, 2022
8:00 Registration
8:20 Opening Remarks
8:30 IOP, Myopia, Glaucomas - What we've learned comparing Accommodative Fatigue in Preschoolers vs Young Adults and Older adults
COPE #78515-TD
Ben C. Lane, OD, FAAO, FCOVD, FAAAS, FACN
10:10 Break
10:40 Behavioral Optometry should incorporate Bates into our Therapy Practices
COPE pending
Ray Gottlieb, OD, PhD, FCSO
11:40 Vision Therapy for Presbyopia Reduction
COPE pending
Dr. Gottlieb
12:30 Congress Luncheon
1:00 Exhibitor presentation
1:40 OEPF rep: Amy Pruszenski, OD, FCOVD
2:00 OrthoK: Beyond the Basics
COPE #76043-CL
Paul Levine, OD, FAAO, FIAOMC
3:00 Managing Myopia Through Optical and Lifestyle Strategies
COPE #79018-GO
Dr. Levine
3:40 Break
4:10 Myopia Management - Decisions, Decisions
COPE # 78974-FV
Laura Vasilakos, OD, FCOVD
5:00 Dinner on your own
8:00 Hospitality/Bull session
Congress Suite
Monday, September 12, 2022
9:00 Attention and Memory Training in an Optometric Neuro-Rehabilitation Practice: An Introduction to Stress-point Training
COPE approval pending
Dr. Gottlieb
10:30 Break
11:00 Attention and Memory Training in an Optometric Neuro-Rehabilitation Practice: An Introduction to Stress-point Training. Continued
Dr. Gottlieb
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12:15 Lunch
12:45 Exhibitor presentation
2:00 Modifying Lifestyle to Prevent the Age-related Macular Degenerations
COPE #78420-PH
Dr. Lane
4:00 Closing