Las Vegas 2024

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

Benefits of Attending

EDUCATE

Educate yourself and your staff to deliver improved patient care and grow your business.

EXPERIENCE

Experience the latest industry advances directly from our SNAPP Partners in contact lenses, solutions, therapeutics and leading edge medical and diagnostic equipment.

ENGAGE

Engage in essential learning and networking that extends past the classroom into your practice/store(s) and beyond.

  • 5 hours of free COPE CE for doctors
  • Meet Fellow Operators – Build your personal community
  • Gain financial information on how to increase profits and total gross revenue.
  • Vision Expo West Trade Show Pass: Get free access to the VEW trade show.

Agenda

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👋🏼 6pm – 9pm: Welcome Reception

🍳 8am-9am:  Breakfast

👏 9am-2pm:  General Session

🎉 3:30-6:15pm:  Sphere Experience

🍽️ 6:30pm-8:30pm:  Group Dinner at Area 15

🍳 8am-9am:  Breakfast

👏 9am-2pm:  General Session

🍔 12:15 – 1:15pm: Lunch

📈 1-3:30 pm: Breakouts, Business Growth Workshop

✏️ 3:30pm-5:10pm:  Medical Billing & Coding Workshop

🍽️ 6-9 pm: Dinner & Trade Show

🍳 8-8:30 am: Breakfast

🎓 8:30am -11:30am: Primary Room – Think Tank Workshops,  or Doctor Clinical COPE CE in separate room

👏 12:15-1:15 PM: General Session

🎉 1:15 pm: Closing Remarks

Our Night at Area 15 – Dinner & Cocktails

Our space is The Sanctuary, amidst a collision of metal, sculpture and worn wood is a 23-foot-tall glistening digital maple tree in the center of AREA15. Designed by Elora Hardy and her design firm, IBUKU, The Sanctuary is constructed of bamboo sourced from the mountains and valleys of Java and Bali.

Get Paid to Come!

Our Member Rewards Program allows you to receive stipends for attendance, here’s how…

Our Las Vegas conference continues to be one of the most rewarding benefits for our members. We’re excited to announce that SNAPP is offering increased stipends for attending our event in Las Vegas!

Our Member Rewards Program allows you to receive stipends for attendance, here’s how…

Qualify

  • One (1) Doctor & one (1) non-OD owner per store qualify for 100% stipend – $1000
  • One (1) Manager per store qualifies for 50% stipend – $500
  • Register for the meeting by the registration deadline (4 weeks before start date of meeting )
  • Arrive on-time at  8am Monday morning
  • Spend 10 minutes with each sponsor learning about their products and services. Get passport book stamped from each partner at the trade fair dinner on Wednesday
  • Get passport book stamped for each break-out session on Tuesday
  • Fully participate in the meeting  each day & get passport book stamped for all days
  • *Stipend amount will be determined by how many members qualify for stipend.
  • Book your hotel stay within the SNAPP discounted room block at The Palms

**Stipend checks will be written and distributed at close of meeting on Wednesday at 2:00pm

Hotel Information

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.

Located adjacent to the Las Vegas Strip, Palms Casino Resort lets you enjoy everything that Vegas has to offer along with premier gaming, entertainment and accommodations.

Book Discounted Room

Sponsors

As a trusted SNAPP partner we look forward to seeing you and your team in Las Vegas on Wednesday, September 27th. Please have each member of your team who will be attending register by clicking here to Register.

Sponsor Registration Checklist:

Indicate intent to sponsor to info@snappgroup.com and pay sponsorship dues.

NOTE: All individuals from your organization who will be present at any SNAPP functions must be formally registered using the link above and in possession of a SNAPP sponsor name badge in order to be permitted entrance.

If you have additional questions regarding sponsorship please email us at SNAPP@etakevents.com

Featured Speakers

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

Craig Thomas, O.D. is from Houston, Texas. He graduated from Dallas’ Skyline High School in 1977and earned his Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Houston in 1982.
Dr. Thomas earned his Doctor of Optometry Degree from the University of Houston College of Optometry in 1983. He has also undergone additional training specific to treating patients with glaucoma and is licensed as an Optometric Glaucoma Specialist.
Dr. Thomas has practiced continuously in Dallas, Texas for the past 39 years. A noted consultant, lecturer and author, Dr. Thomas frequently travels the country to educate other optometrists on the latest trends, techniques and technologies used in the profession of optometry.
His professional accomplishments include being a member of the American Optometric Association for 43 years and being named Optometrist of the year by the Texas Optometric Association in 2001.

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.