3163.2 Eye Injuries - Ounces of Prevention / Pounds of Cure (jointly organized by the Vision Care and Injury Control and Emergency Health Services sections)

Monday, November 9, 2009: 10:30 AM
Oral
TBA
Session Objectives: Describe epidemiology of ocular injuries in different settings, as well as epidemiology of falls secondary to visual impairment. Identify measures to reduce the prevalence of these preventable injuries.
Organizer:
Christine Harden, OD
Moderator:
Lenora Olson, MA, PhD

Introductory Remarks
10:33 AM
Work-related eye injuries in the U.S
Larry L. Jackson, PhD
10:48 AM
Emergency department treated eye injury in San Diego County
Holly Shipp, MPH, Julie Cooke, MPH, Leslie Upledger Ray, PhD MPH MPPA MA, Alan M. Smith, PhD, MPH, Barbara M. Stepanski, MPH, Kristin Garrett, MPH and C. Beth Sise, JD, RN, MSN
  
11:03 AM
Understanding the attitudes, activities and needs of optometrists in the prevention of falls among older adults
Holly Hackman, MD, MPH and Y. K. Gary Chu, OD, MPH
  
11:18 AM
Developing Healthy People 2020 vision objectives
Asel Ryskulova, MD, PhD, MPH, Richard Klein, MPH, Rosemary Janiszewski, MS, CHES and Mary Frances Cotch, PhD
  
Discussion

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Vision Care Section
Endorsed by: Injury Control and Emergency Health Services

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

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