Optometry's Meeting offers an innovative, progressive and impactful educational program with over 190 hours of expert-led CE and professional development for optometrists, paraoptometrics and optometry students.
Optometry’s Meeting 2023 hosts the AOA’s single-largest annual advocacy experience and a foundation of optometry’s federal advocacy efforts, AOA on Capitol Hill. Join optometry's advocates in our nation's capital—find out how here!
Learn what it takes to be counted alongside the AOA and optometry’s advocates. See how AOA+ can help shape optometry’s future and how the AOA can help get you here.

OPTOMETRY'S MEETING NEWS

Developing tomorrow’s leaders, today

In 2017, the AOA and the American Optometric Student Association launched an ambitious initiative to bring 2,000+ students and newly graduated doctors of optometry to Washington, D.C., to promote career readiness and success, foster professional aspirations and develop the next generation. Called AOA+, the initiative is returning to Optometry’s Meeting® 2023, bigger and bolder than before. Six years later, what do those inaugural participants say about AOA+ as a catalyzing moment in their careers?

Optometry’s Meeting® 2023: Keep up with contemporary optometry through continuing education

What are you waiting for? Early-bird registration is now open for Optometry’s Meeting® in Washington, D.C., June 21-24. And that means you can get first dibs on continuing education and professional development at the premier event in our profession. Interested in a unique, interactive case history diagnosis workshop or working toward a micro-credential for paraoptometric surgical assisting? Enroll in the education at Optometry’s Meeting.

Deadline extended: Submit your abstracts electronically by Feb. 20

The AOA ePoster Session, June 13-14, creates a national forum for clinicians. students and faculty to communicate interesting cases and unique research. Top five posters selected will be invited to participate in education at Optometry's Meeting® and will receive a $350 honorarium.

Begin your Optometry's Meeting® 2023 registration

Are you ready to register for the profession's premier annual event, June 21-24, in Washington, D.C.? Open the registration portal below to begin your Optometry's Meeting experience today!

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