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Nutrition and Optometry: Opportunities for Ocular-Systemic
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Date: On Demand
Length: 60 minutes
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Description:
Join this Webinar to learn more about the fundamental elements of
nutrition relating to eye and systemic health. In this Webinar, Dr. Richer
will:
- Examine how the standard American diet is one of caloric abundance,
micronutrient deficiencies and problematic additives
- Explore the potential to delay the onset of age-related disease
- Reinforce the application of the 2005 USDA Food Pyramid
www.MyPyramid.gov
guidelines and Medicare PQRI incentives for including supplemental
vitamins/minerals in optometry practices
- Discuss how certain pharmaceuticals induce nutritional deficits and
how interactions with medications and supplementation side effects are
possible, but rare
- Review how preventive medicine also encompasses non-nutritional
elements such as stress reduction and exercise.
Speaker:
Stuart Richer, OD, Ph.D., FAAO, earned his undergraduate degree from the
Rochester Institute of Technology, completed a dual doctorate of optometry
and master’s degree (physiological optics) program at the University of
California at Berkeley and earned his doctorate in human physiology and
biophysics from Chicago Medical School. He is Chief of Optometry at DVA
Medical Center in Chicago and an associate professor of Family and
Preventative Medicine at Chicago Medical School and Clinical Optometry at
ICO and UMSL.
He is the principal investigator of the Veterans Lutein Antioxidant
Supplementation Trial (LAST), the first U.S. randomized double-masked
placebo controlled clinical trial of lutein and visual function published
in the journal Optometry. He is a fellow in the National Academy of
Practices in Medicine and his team was announced as Service to America
Medal finalists in Science and Technology at the U.S. Senate Hart Bldg.
Actively involved in primary care optometry and clinical antioxidant
research, Richer has special interests in aging, prescribing nutrients in
the intervention of age related macular degeneration, low-tension
glaucoma, prevention of cataracts and dry eye.
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