Advocacy Days 2017 BAOC - Friday May 5

Unable to attend past COA Legislative Days? This year, COA brings the event directly to you! Take advantage of attending COA's Bay Area Optometric Societies and UC Berkeley Students (BAOC) Advocacy Day right in your own backyard! ACCCOS, SCCOS, SFOS, SMCOS, & REOS societies are all invited. Cocktails are 6-7pm, Advocacy program is 7-9pm with speaker Assembly Member Kevin Mullin.

When: Friday, May 5, 2017
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm: Cocktail Hour
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm: Advocacy Program

Where:
SPUR Urban Center
654 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94105

For more information, go to coavision.org and click here

Installation Meeting 2017

2017 ACCCOS Installation

Sunday, April 9th, 2017

9:00 am - 2:00 pm
Castlewood Country Club, Grand Ballroom
707 Country Club Circle
Pleasanton, CA 94566
(925) 846-2871

Please note country club dress code: men wear collared shirts (tucked in), no denim or cargo shorts/pants. 

ur annual installation meeting is a special event for ACCCOS. Please come and see our 2017 ACCCOS board members assume their new roles of leadership for our society. 

Special Guest Lecturer:
Dr. Andrew S. Morgenstern, OD, FAAO Dipl, ABO: 

"The Battle of the Bulge..Its all About the Backside" (2 hrs)
"More than Meets the TB Eye" (1 hr)

RSVP with choice of meal:

  • Mesquite Grilled Mahi Mahi, Charred Thai Pineapple Salsa with Roasted Yukon Potatoes & Seasonal Vegetables
  • New York Strip Steak with Merlot Reduction & Garlic Mashed Potato
  • Vegetarian - Chef's choice

Free for ACCCOS members who sign up on or before  Sunday March 26th. $50 Non-ACCCOS COA members, $80 Non-COA members, $25 for ACCCOS Members who sign up after March 26th. $45 Late sign up fee (Thursday-Friday prior to event), $50 Sign up fee day of event/at door.

RSVP via PayPal at ACCCOS.ORG, and for the early bird option, send an email with your name, lic number and meal choice to acccos1@gmail.com.

Should you need to cancel, please do so 48 hours in advance of the meeting. A $45.00 penalty fee is incurred for a no-show with an RSVP.

Please note that to receive continuing education credit, you must arrive no later than ten minutes after the lecture has started. Only full 3-hour credit will be granted, no partial credit for only attending a portion of the lecture.

We still accept checks payable to "ACCCOS" sent to: 
Val Esway, 3024 Hyde St, Oakland, CA 94601 

Speaker Bio:
Dr. Andrew S. Morgenstern, OD, FAAO Dipl, ABO

Healthcare Consultant and Subject Matter Expert

Dr. Morgenstern is a healthcare consultant and subject matter expert. He received is bachelors degree at Boston, and his Doctor of Optometry at Nova Southeastern University College of Optometry. Thereafter receiving his residency at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute at the University of Miami School of Medicine Department of Ophthalmology.

Dr. Morgenstern is the founder of OcuSolve, the healthcare and management consultant firm, assistant principal investigator for TLC Laser Centers, and assistant principal investigator for the CXL-USA Corneal Cross Linking Study Group. He is also involved with the AOA, Evidence Based Optometry (EBO) consultant for the United States Health and Human Services (HHS) Institute of Medicine (IOM) Systematic Reviews and Clinical Practice Guidelines Development Process.  He continues his work as the Optometric Subject Matter Expert, US Department of Defense Vision Center of Excellence, and the organizer and moderator of AOA United States/China FDA Myopia and Myopia Control joint symposium.  

In his spare time he has volunteered as the President of the Optometric Cornea, Cataract and Refractive Society (OCCRS), Maryland Optometric Association, American Optometric Association New Technology Committee (AOA-NTC), Red Cross Volunteer Optometrist, Co-Chief Medical Editor of Advanced Ocular Care and EyetubeOD.com. He is also a founding member of the International Keratoconus Academy of Eye Care Professionals, and Optometric Cross Linking Society, and the executive board member or the International Keratoconus Academy of Eye Care Professionals (IKA) 

ACCCOS Membership Drive

Financial Planning Seminar for Optometrists - Free, Open to All Optometrists

Please join us to learn about student loan payments, purchasing a new practice/home, saving for retirement, and more! This lecture will be DIFFERENT from last year's and will have more opportunity for incorporation of what YOU want to learn more about. Please submit questions, comments, concerns, examples of financial topics you want addressed with your RSVP!

  • Date: Sunday, October 9, 2016
  • Time: 12:00 pm
  • Location: TBA
  • Speaker: Marshall Weintraub
  • Host: Finity Group, LLC & ACCCOS
  • Lunch will be provided. 

Open to all optometrists - ACCCOS members, COA members, and non-members. Please RSVP as soon as you can, so we can plan the location space accordingly. Another e-mail will come when the location is finalized (will be in or close to East Bay).

RSVP: Please fill out this google doc and/or e-mail: acccos.membership@gmail.com with your full name, grad yr, OD school, and questions/topics to discuss.

Please RSVP by September 15th. For more information, please click here to download a flyer.

 

ACCCOS Membership Drive: Financial Planning Seminar for Optometrists

Please join us to learn about student loan payments, purchasing a new practice/home, saving for retirement, and more!

This lecture will be DIFFERENT from last year's and will have more opportunity for incorporation of what YOU want to learn more about. Please submit questions, comments, concerns, examples of financial topics you want addressed with your RSVP!

Date: Sunday, October 9, 2016
Time: 12:00 pm
Location: TBA
Speaker: Marshall Weintraub
Host: Finity Group, LLC & ACCCOS
Lunch will be provided.

Open to all optometrists - ACCCOS members, COA members, and non-members

RSVP:

Please fill out this google doc and/or e-mail: acccos.membership@gmail.com with your full name, grad yr, OD school, and questions/topics to discuss.

Please RSVP as soon as you can, so we can plan the location space accordingly. Another e-mail will come when the location is finalized (will be in or close to East Bay).

Please RSVP by September 15th.

For more information, please click here to download a flyer.

September General Membership Meeting

Mark Your Calendar for the September General Membership Meeting: Sunday, September 18th, 2016

Ruth's Chris Steak House
1553 Olympic Boulevard, Walnut Creek, CA 94596
Registration 9 am, meeting 9:30 am - 12:30 pm

Special Guest Lecturers:
Dr. Mark Mandel, MD
email: mandel@optimaeye.com
Lecture Title: Update on CXL, Presbyopic inlays, & Refractive cataract surgery 

Dr. Jacqueline Theis, OD, FAAO
Lecture Title: Neurological and Systemic Disease Presenting in Primary Care Optometry
 

Speaker Bios:

Dr. Mark Mandel, MD was born and raised in Los Angeles and is the son of a family practitioner. He graduated with Honors from Oxford University, England, receiving both a Bachelors and Masters Degree. He received his Medical Degree from UCLA School of Medicine and completed his ophthalmology residency at Pacific Presbyterian Hospital in San Francisco. Follow this, he took an additional year to subspecialize in corneal transplant surgery at the University of Iowa, one of the most prestigious transplant programs in the world. He is one of the few fully trained corneal transplant surgeons in the East Bay. He entered private practice in Hayward in 1983. He has been elected to the Scientific Advisory Board of the Outpatient Ophthalmic Surgery Society, and is a past president of the East Bay Ophthalmological Society.

Dr. Mandel teaches and lectures throughout the U.S., and abroad to eye surgeons on different aspects of cataract, corneal, and refractive surgery. He also teaches at the University of California, Berkeley, UCSF and the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. Dr. Mandel has been selected by scores of eye doctors and other physicians to perform LASIK, corneal transplant, and cataracts surgery on themselves, their families and their office staff, who trust him for his knowledge and surgical skill, and rely on him for his honesty and integrity.

Dr. Jacqueline Theis, OD is a residency trained optometrist in binocular vision and neuro-optometry.  She is currently a full time optometrist at Kaiser Permanente in Marin/Sonoma, and also works as the Director of the UC Berkeley Sports Vision Institute.  Dr. Theis performs research and clinical care in vision problems after head injury.

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Free for ACCCOS members who sign up on or before Tuesday September 13th. $50 Non-ACCCOS COA members, $80 Non-COA members, $25 for ACCCOS Members who sign up after Tuesday September 13th. $45 Late sign up fee (Thurs-Friday prior to event), $50 Sign up fee day of event/at door.

For the early bird option, send an email with your name, license number and meal choice to acccos1@gmail.com.

Should you need to cancel, please do so 48 hours in advance of the meeting.  A $45.00 penalty fee is incurred for a no-show with an RSVP. Please note that to receive continuing education credit, you must arrive no later than ten minutes after the lecture has started. Only full 3-hour credit will be granted, no partial credit for only attending a portion of the lecture.