Earn all required 32 hours!
Save the date for upcoming COPE approved CE courses.

• March 22, 2009 (8 hrs)
Nutrition and the Eye Symposium II

• April 18, 2009 (4 hrs)
Advances in Vision Care

• April 19, 2009 (8 hrs)
Ocular Disease and Allergies of the Anterior & Posterior Eye

• May 11, 2009 (4 hrs)
Coding for 2009

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Lis Ellerbusch (314) 516-5615

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University of Missouri-St. Louis • http://optometry.umsl.edu COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY
Nutrition and the
Eye Symposium II
Sunday, March 22, 2009

8 COPE/CEE hours total

8:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
J.C. Penney Conference Center

Tuition: $225 by February 23, 2009
$260 after February 23, 2009 - Lunch provided

Program Coordinator:
Stuart Richer, OD, PhD, FAAO
Chief, Optometry Section - VA North Chicago Medical Center
Associate Professor - Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine & Science
• 25 (OH) Vitamin D Deficiency and the Brighter Side of Sunlight

Keynote:
Loren Cordain, PhD
Professor Colorado State University
• Origins and Evolution of the Western Diet: Health Implications for the 21st Century
• The Pathogenesis of Juvenile-Onset Myopia
• The Diet of Our Human Ancestors
• Hyperinsulinemic Diseases of Civilization

Presenters:
Jeffry D. Gerson, OD, FAAO
WestGlen Eyecare & Omni Eye Center of Kansas City
• B&L Nutrition: An A to Z Primer

Jeffrey R. Anshel, BS, OD
President, Optometric Nutrition Society
• Incorporating Nutrition Within the Optometric Practice

Carl Bassi, PhD
Associate Professor, College of Optometry, UM-St. Louis
Director of Research and Graduate Studies
• Macular Pigment, Carotenoids and visual Function in AMD