This year’s theme “Envisioning a new world” reinforces our commitment to a world where everyone has access to eye health and vision care that is affordable, accessible and of high professional standards. 

2020 marks a key year for vision and although the celebrations of achievements and the revealing of new plans were put aside due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the health inequalities that the pandemic has unveiled, make it even more relevant to be prepared to provide services to those most vulnerable who are at risk of being left behind in what will be a more challenging world in the future.

The meeting is a COPE accredited activity offering 2 COPE qualified courses.

Although we will miss the personal interaction, please join us for a day of sharing and learning from the comfort of your own home.  You can find details of the programme below.  

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Exhibitors

We are glad to welcome the following exhibitors who will be available to meet participants during the breaks. 

PlenOptika designs and produces tools to help vision professionals perform their best care anywhere. Inspired to solve the global burden of poor vision, PlenOptika developed QuickSee™, the world’s most accurate handheld autorefractor. The company and device have been recognized in international health and technology competitions, including Beazley Designs of the Year, Essilor See Change, Silmo D’Or, and IAPB Eye Health Heroes. Vision professionals and NGOs have used QuickSee on over 2 million patients at least 25 countries to transform their lives with clear vision.  Visit the virtual booth of Plenoptika during the breaks at our Annual Meeting.  More information here 

Bernell … Serving Eyecare Professionals since 1954!

Offering unique and necessary solutions to assist you in treating your patients so that they may achieve their maximum visual potential. We offer over 2,000 ophthalmic products for vision testing and evaluation, as well as the largest selection of vision therapy, visual rehabilitation, and vision enhancement products in the world.  More information here

Bernell is kindly donating prizes for our Photo and Video contests winners.  Joe Villari, VP of Business Development of Bernell will be in attendance and looks forward to meeting you during the meeting breaks.

E4V works through volunteer dentists around the US offering pro-bono dental care to qualifying low income veterans and their families.  Since its establishment, E4V has worked with almost 500 dentists from 30 US states providing needed dental care making a significant difference to these veterans’ lives. VOSH/International has started a collaboration with E4V to offer eye health care to qualifying returnee combat veterans and their families. Interested VOSH chapters can meet E4V founder and CEO, Dr Theresa Cheng during the breaks and find out more about the collaboration. More information here

Paying the registration fee using Zelle

We would like to encourage our US VOSH chapters and US partners to pay the registration fee using Zelle if possible. To do this, please visit https://www.zellepay.com/how-it-works and follow the steps provided by your bank.  The registration fee should be sent to our Treasurer, Mark Rakoczy at rakoczy@vosh.org. 

Once you paid the fee, you can register in this site using the promotional code VOSH2020 and selecting Zelle as the payment category. This will save us resources in fees.  Thanks a lot for the extra step.

A big thanks to our Visionary Sponsor