Heart of America Eye Care Congress

See you next year!
February 20-22, 2026
Sheraton Crown Center
Kansas City, Missouri


2025 HOAECC Lecture Materials

Advanced Dispensing for Paraoptometric Assistants - OP-0032-23 (Yoho)

>  Advanced Dispensing for Paraoptometric Assistants (PDF)

Alternative Treatment Options to Common Ocular Disease: What Works and What Doesn't - 92677-PH (Morris)

>  Alternative Treatment Options (PDF)

AMD Diagnostic Essentials: Mastering Detection and Assessment - 92603-TD (Attar)

>  AMD Diagnostic Essentials - Mastering Detection an (PDF)

Basic Dispensing for the Paraoptometric Assistant - OP-0033-23 (Yoho)

>  Basic dispensing for Paraoptometric assistants (PDF)

Beauty and the Beasts - BP-0019-24 (McGee)

>  Beauty-and-the-Beasts 2024 GAmma (PDF)

Best of Academy 2025 - 95320-GO (Redfern / Zimmerman)

>  Best of Academy 2025 Outline (DOCX)

Beyond 20/20: The AI Revolution in Eye Care - 93296-GO (Attar / Morris / Shatsman / Steen)

>  Beyond 2020 - The AI Revolution in Eye Care - Hand (PDF)

>  Beyond 2020 - The AI Revolution in Eye Care - Hand (PDF)

Beyond DNA: Unveiling the Epigenetic Landscape of the Eye - 92604-GO (Attar)

>  Beyond DNA - Unveiling the epigenetic landscape of (PDF)

Binocular Brilliance - OP-0040-24 (Gatti)

>  Binocular Brilliance Outline (PDF)

Brag On Your Practice: This Is How We Do It! - BP-0027-24 (Lawrence)

>  Brag On Your Practice (PDF)

Contact Lens Update 2025 - 93820-CL (Gromacki)

>  2025 (DOC)

Cosmetology - HP-0004-22 (McGee)

>  Oculoplastic OD 2025 (1) (PDF)

>  Oculoplastic OD 2025 (1) (PDF)

>  Oculoplastic OD 2025 (1) (PDF)

Cryosurgery for Optometric Physicians - 92592-SP (Castillo)

>  Cryosurgery for Optometric Physicians (PDF)

Diabetic Retinopathy: An Overview of Best Diagnostic and Management Strategies - 92602-TD (Attar)

>  Diabetic Retinopathy An Overview of Best Diagnosti (PDF)

Differentiate Your Practice- Create a Magical Experience - PM-0072-24 (Rosemann)

>  Differentiate Your Practice - Create A Magical Exp (PDF)

Fundamentals in Diagnosis and Treatment of Ocular Disease States - 92678-PB (Morris)

>  Fundamentals in Diagnosis (PDF)

Giant Cell Arteritis - 92583-SD (Castillo)

>  Giant Cell Arteritis A Guide to Diagnosis and Mgmt (PDF)

Hands on Skill Workshop, first hour (fee covers all 3 hours) - PT-0035-24 (Lawrence)

>  Hands On Skills Workshop (PDF)

Hands on Skills Workshop, Last 2 hours - PT-0035-24 (Lawrence)

>  hands-on-skills-workshop (PDF)

Heart of America Eye Care Congress 2025 Poster Session - 95335-GO (Polk)

No materials for this course.

Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension Update - 92094-NO (Borgman)

>  Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension Update handou (PDF)

Introduction to Scleral And Contact Lens Fitting and Practice - 94550-CL (Gromacki)

>  2025 (DOCX)

Keratoconus: Yesterday's Research and Today's Practice - 91717-TD (Gromacki)

>  2025 (DOCX)

Lasers, Lights, Aesthetics - 92579-TD (McGee)

>  Oculoplastic OD 2025 (PDF)

Mastering Macular Edema: Etiologies, Diagnosis, and Management - 92254-TD (Rafieetary)

>  MAstering macular edema-rafieetary outline (PDF)

Mastering Prism - OP-0034-23 (Yoho)

>  Mastering Prism Outline (PDF)

Miyoverse: Myopia Management and Dispensing for All - RS-0010-24 (Gatti)

>  MIYOVERSE - Myopia Management and Dispensing For A (PDF)

Navigating glaucoma management: harnessing vectors for optimal patient care - 92623-GL (Steen)

>  Handout Navigating glaucoma management 2025 HOA (PDF)

Neuroimaging 101: MRI - 92087-NO (Borgman)

>  Neuroimaging - MRI (1 hr) handouts (PDF)

Ocular Complications of Contact Lens Wear - 94549-CL (Gromacki)

>  2025 (DOC)

Ocular Nutrition Tying Function, Structure, and Molecular All Together - 90888-SD (Caldwell)

>  Ocular Nutrition - Tying Structure, Fuction, and M (PDF)

Optical Coherence Tomography: Served Layer by Layer - 92679-TD (Rafieetary)

>  OCT layer by layer-lRafieetary-outline (PDF)

Optimizing your Practice Through Managed Vision Care - PM-0073-24 (Rosemann)

>  Optimizing Your Practice Through Managed Vision Ca (PDF)

Optometric Surgical Assisting for the Paraoptometric Technician - CS-0003-23 (Castillo / Castillo)

No materials for this course.

Pediatric Developmental Conditions - 92805-FV (Bodack)

>  PedDevelopmental ConditionsHOA25 (PDF)

Pediatric Eye Injuries - 92812-TD (Bodack)

>  Ocular Trauma HOA2025 (PDF)

Pediatric Posterior Seg - 92813-TD (Bodack)

>  Pediatric Posterior SegmentHOA (PDF)

Pediatric Prescribing - 92876-FV (Bodack)

>  Pediatric Prescribing (PDF)

Pharmaceutical Update 2025 - 92706-PH (Caldwell)

>  Pharmaceutical Update 2025 for HOA (PDF)

Pharmacology for Technicians - PH-0008-24 (Lawrence)

>  pharmacology-for-technicians (PDF)

Powerboost Lenses: Understanding the Benefits and Limitations - 92639-GO (Hoff)

>  HOA25 Powerboost Lenses_ Understanding the Benefit (PDF)

Promoting From Within: The Kiss of Death or the Ultimate Honor?! - PM-0070-24 (Graves)

>  Promoting from Within (PDF)

Retina Brainteaser Cases - 92086-SD (Borgman)

>  Retina Brainteaser Cases Handouts (PDF)

Retina Grand Rounds: When to Manage, Who to Refer - 92676-SD (Rafieetary)

>  Retina Grandrounds-rafieetary Outline (PDF)

Retrobulbar Hemorrhage: First Response When Seconds Count! - 92584-TD (Castillo)

>  Retrobulbar Hemorrhage First Response When Seconds (PDF)

Revealing glaucoma’s depths: advances in pathophysiology understanding - 92624-GL (Steen)

>  Handout Revealing glaucoma's depths 2025 HOA (PDF)

Round 1: Neuro, Optic Nerve, & Orbit Brainteaser Cases - 91424-NO (Borgman)

>  Neuro - Orbit & Optic Nerve Brainteaser Handouts (PDF)

Rule These Out Before You Diagnose It As Dry Eye - 92620-SD (Brujic)

>  Rule-These-Out (PDF)

Scary Tech - ET-0006-24 (Graves)

>  Scary Tech (PDF)

Seeing Glaucoma as More Than Just High Pressures - ED-0016-23 (Brujic)

>  Glaucoma (PDF)

Staffing: What’s Keeping You Awake At Night?! - PM-0069-24 (Graves)

>  Staffing - What's Keeping You Up At Night (PDF)

The ABCs of Pediatric Vision - CV-0011-24 (Hoff)

>  HOA25 The ABCs of Pediatric Vision (PDF)

The Culture Foundation - PM-0071-24 (McGee)

>  The-Culture-Foundation (PDF)

The Most Important Things That You Need to Know About The Retina - AP-0015-24 (Brujic)

>  Retina (PDF)

The New Trust Economy and Your Practice: Leveraging AI and Innovative Technology to Enhance the Patient Experience - 92965-PM (Shatsman)

>  the-new-trust-economy-and-your-practice (PDF)

The Second Pair is the New Primary Pair - PM-0074-24 (Rosemann)

>  The Second Pair Is The New Primary Pair Outline (PDF)

Thinking Out Of The Box Versus Being Buried In It! - PM-0068-24 (Graves)

>  Thinking out of the box (PDF)

Thyroid Eye Disease- What Every Optometrist Needs to Know! - 92712-SD (Caldwell)

>  Thyroid Eye Disease - What Every Optometrist Needs (PDF)

Twelve Innovations in Eye Care You Need to Know About - 92621-GO (Brujic)

>  12-New-Innovations (PDF)

Understanding Sports Eyewear to Enhance Performance and Ensure Safety - SV-0003-24 (Hoff)

>  HOA25 Understanding Sports Eyewear to Enhance Perf (PDF)

Unfinished Business - PM-0053-23 (Lawrence)

>  unfinished-business (PDF)

Unveiling the Secrets of Task-Specific Lenses - OP--0039-24 (Hoff)

>  HOA25 Unveiling the Secrets of Near Task Specific (PDF)

Video Grand Rounds: Introduction to Optometric Office-based Surgery - 92591-SP (Castillo)

>  Office-based Procedures for Optometric Physicians (PDF)

Visual Assessment: More Than Just a Refraction - OP-0038-24 (Hoff)

>  HOA25 Visual Assessment_ More than a Refraction (PDF)

What is Hot in Retina - 92700-TD (Rafieetary)

>  what is hot in retina -rafieetary-outline (PDF)

What We Know and Don't Know About Blue Light - BP-0020-24 (Gatti)

>  What We Know and Dont Know About Blue Light Outlin (PDF)

Why Do My Fields Look Like That?! - ED-0071-24 (Graves)

>  Why Do My Fields Look Like That - Updated 8-13 (PDF)

Work Place Violence - PM-0067-24 (Graves)

>  Work Place Violence (PDF)

Your Practice, AI, and Today’s Market: Effective Marketing Strategies for Eye Care Businesses - 91085-PM (Shatsman)

>  your-practice-ai-and-todays-consumer-2024-q1-editi (PDF)