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40 | EYEWORLD DAILY NEWS | JULY 24, 2021 ASCRS ANNUAL MEETING DAILY NEWS Leadership: Physician Owner and Administrator Relationships," "If You've Seen One Audit You've Seen Them All … Not Exact- ly," "Keeping You Up at Night: Key Compliance Risks Drawing Government and Whistleblower Scrutiny," "Increasing Revenue with Ocular Surface Disease Man- agement," and more. ASOA will continue to have two general sessions. Its Open- ing General Session today will feature Karyn Buxman, RN, MS, CSP, CPAE, with her keynote speech "Lead with Levity." Ms. Buxman will discuss how humor "strengthens resilience, enhances communications, and increas- es engagement." At the general session on Monday, Joe Mull, CSP, will give the keynote speech, "No More Team Drama: Ending Gossip, Cliques, & Other Crap that Damage Workplace Teams." Mr. Mull, a return keynote speaker to the ASOA Annual Meeting, will highlight why this drama is bad for business and give practical ways to create a collaborative team. ASOA continues to call out certain courses that are endorsed for its ABC audience (Administra- tor Beginners Circle, those within their first 4 years in ophthalmic practice management), but it is also introducing a new label for courses of specific interest to mid-level managers. With networking being a hallmark of the ASOA Annual Meeting, Ms. Rowland said the popular roundtables are being expanded to 90 minutes, and a second set is being added. Roundtables will take place from 10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m. today and 10:00–11:30 a.m. on Monday. The roundtables are now eligible for Certified Ophthalmic Executive (COE) credits. On the whole, Ms. Row- land said ASOA programming is diverse with topics covering leadership and strategic man- agement, business operations, reimbursement, health infor- mation technology, and other strategies for successful practice management. ASOA gratefully acknowledges CareCredit's sponsorship of its Opening General Session. ASOA Annual Meeting program highlights T he ASOA Annual Meeting is "all about the network- ing," according to ASOA Executive Director Laureen Rowland. Getting attendees in the same room together in person is a main attraction after so many months apart. "Members have stayed strong during the last year, but they can't wait to see each other again and share solutions to problems they've encountered over the past year," she said. While pandemic-related effects and lessons learned will be a thread throughout much of the content of the ASOA Annu- al Meeting, courses continue to cover the important things that all members of a practice need to know. "There is a lot to share from what practices have learned amid the COVID-19 pandemic, while at the same time people are moving on. It's important that we contin- ue to address matters outside of COVID-19," Ms. Rowland said. For MDs interested in practice management courses, the ASOA Annual Meeting features the MD Business Essentials track, which identifies content most relevant for physicians (registrants of the ASCRS Annual Meeting have access to ASOA programming). These courses include "Financial Forecasting: Using Numbers to Be a Strategic Leader," "Preserv- ing and Expanding Your Patient Volume," "Private Equity in Oph- thalmology: Lessons Learned from the Trenches and Where Does It All Go from Here," "Partners in • 70+ practice management courses across 10 learning pathways • 2 general sessions • 2 sets of expanded 90-minute roundtables • Consultants on Call • Networking Lounge ASOA features

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