Join us at the 2024 SNAPP Las Vegas Meeting September 15-18, 2024 at The Palms Casino Resort

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Featuring two distinct towers with 766 hotel rooms and suites, a diverse mix of restaurants, live entertainment venues, meeting and event space, cinema, expansive pool and spa and immersive memorable moments throughout the 95,000-squore-foot reimagined casino, Palms cultivates experiences that captivate.

Mile Brujic, OD, FAAO

Course Title: Managing Ocular Toxicities in Patients with Cancer: Understanding ADCs and the ECPs Role in Collaborative Management

In this course, we will discuss the monitoring and mitigate the occurrence of ocular toxicities associated with the use of antibody drug conjugates (ADC’s) for patients with cancer.  Through improved collaborative, multidisciplinary care, this will allow optimized management of patients who are being treated with ADCs.

Course Title: Twelve Innovations in Eye Care that You Need to Know About

Eye care is experiencing rapid innovation which will improve patient care.  As such, it will become increasingly important to understand how these technologies will be incorporated into clinical practice.  This course will review new diagnostic and therapeutics and how they will play a critical role in clinical care.

Biography

Mile Brujic, OD, FAAO is a 2002 graduate of the New England College of Optometry.  He is a partner of Premier Vision Group, a successful four location optometric practice in Northwest Ohio.  He practices full scope optometry with an emphasis on ocular disease management of the anterior segment and specialty contact lenses.  He is active at all levels of organized optometry.  Dr. Brujic is on the editorial board for a number of optometric publications.  He has published over 450 articles and has given over 2100 lectures, both nationally and internationally on contemporary topics in eye care.

Joe W DeLoach, OD, FAAO, Dipl.ABO

Course Title: Scoring An A In Healthcare Reimbursement

Biography

Joe brings a diverse background that includes a prior highly successful private practice, managing one of the nation’s largest referral centers, and most recently as a full time educator and Clinical Director of the University of Houston Eye Institute Dallas.

He is a noted national authority and lecturer on many aspects of practice including medical billing and coding, documentation of medical records, HIPAA compliance, and management of ocular disease. He has served in numerous capacities with his state association where he was recognized as on of the few recipients of the Distinguished Service Award. Joe also continues to serve as an advisor to Medicare.

Craig Thomas, OD

Course Title: Eyeing Excellence

Biography

Michael Kling, OD

Course Title: 5 Steps from Manager to Leader

The terms “manager” and “leader” often get used interchangeably while describing someone in charge, yet there’s a critical distinction between the two. Managers often “manage” by directing and giving orders, while the behaviors, attitudes, beliefs, actions and perspectives of a leader are “contagious” to its followers. Here we will explore five steps that will transform you from a manager of people to a true leader within your organization. In this course, new leaders will learn how to demonstrate effective leadership, influence their team, create the right culture, set goals, implement change and delegate for productivity and growth.

Biography

Dr. Mick Kling is a consultant, speaker, and business coach. He is the founder of Impact Leadership which provides leadership, culture and business coaching for the eye care community.

In addition to his role with Impact Leadership, Mick is the founder and CEO of Invision Optometry in San Diego, California. He also serves as the Practice Management and Transition Advisor for Vision Source, a network of 3,000 independently owned eye care practices throughout the US.

Mick earned his Doctor of Optometry degree, with honors, from Southern College of Optometry in 1993 and went on to complete a residency in Ocular Disease at Omega Eye Care Center in Jackson, TN.

Jared Noble

Course Title: Optimizing Patient Experience

Do your patients enjoy coming to your office? Have they become evangelists for your practice and brought their friends and families in? An optimized patient experience not only increases patient satisfaction, but it directly leads to an increase in per-patient-revenue, exam counts, doctor utilization, staff satisfaction, and brand awareness. Jared Noble, a previous Director of Operations for 90+ offices, will spend time focusing on the end-to-end patient experience – scheduling, confirmations, paperwork, pretesting, retail floor transitions, post purchase experience, and patient recall or reactivation – and best practices!

Biography

No stranger to optometry, our Jared Noble has worked every role – except that of a practicing optometrist – within the four walls of an optometry office. In addition, he’s worked on the corporate side of retail optometry, managing operations and business transformation for a private equity backed aggregator with ~100 retail optical locations across the country. Jared’s firsthand experience of the problems faced in the optometry industry, paired with his passion for software product development, led him to found Arrellio.

Outside of work, Jared can be found at the barn learning horsemanship, the gym hack squatting, or a local greek spot eating gyros and calamari. In an alternate life, Jared would like to be Rip in Yellowstone.