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Meena Puar

Living well and seeing well

  • CET INFORMATION
    Accreditation: 1 non-interactive CET point Duration: 1 hour Reference: C-76976 Modality ﷯ Audience and competencies ﷯ ﷯ ﷯ ﷯ ﷯ ﷯ ﷯ ﷯ ﷯ ﷯
  • SUMMARY AND PRESENTER
    Summary This discussion-based session is designed particularly to help the registered practitioner make sense of the published evidence about the benefits of good diet and wellbeing on ocular health and apply this to the individually tailored advice they give to patients. It will highlight the role nutrition plays in free radical production and antioxidant defence, and the role oxidative stress may play in age-related eye disease. About the presenter Ms Meena Puar BSc(Hons) MCOptom FBCLA Meena Puar is a qualified optometrist and dispensing optician. In June 2017 she also gained her fellowship for the British Contact Lens association. She currently works as a Professional Affairs Consultant for Thea Pharmaceuticals Limited and locums at an independent practice. She has also worked as a Professional Services Manager for Leightons Opticians and Hearing Care. This role involved refining and improving all touch points in the customer experience and customer journey, Leading and motivating ECPs in elevating clinical service offering by improving their knowledge and confidence, to monitor and improve each ECP’s performance using coaching and motivational support. Meena has also been involved in glaucoma and diabetic screening programmes which has meant working closely with local Hospital Eye Services.
  • LEARNING OBJECTIVES
    Learning objectives 1.1.1 The CLO will have an enhanced understanding how different patients may need differing advice about their diet and eye health, dependent on age, lifestyle factors, risk factors and existing ocular health concerns. 2.6.1 CLOs will have an enhanced awareness that dietary advice for contact lens wearers must only be given from an evidence-based approach and that your sources of knowledge be reflected upon to make sure you are giving sound advice to patients. 1.1.3 Optometrists will understand how different patient groups may need differing advice about their diet and eye health, dependent on age, lifestyle factors, risk factors and existing disease. 1.1.1 DOs will understand how different patient groups may need differing advice about their diet and eye health, dependent on age, lifestyle factors, risk factors and existing disease. 2.6.1 Optometrists will have an enhanced awareness that dietary advice must only be given from an evidence-based approach and that your sources of knowledge be reflected upon to make sure you are giving sound advice to patients. 2.6.1 DOs will have an enhanced awareness that dietary advice must only be given from an evidence-based approach and that your sources of knowledge be reflected upon to make sure you are giving sound advice to patients. 6.1.1 Optometrists will understand the role nutrition and smoking play in antioxidant defences and free radical production, respectively, such that ‘at risk’ patients can be identified 2.10.1 DOs will understand the role nutrition and smoking play in antioxidant defences and free radical production, respectively, such that - working in a support role within their scope of practice - they can identify ‘at risk’ patients and take appropriate action in consultation with the supervising optometrist.
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  • CET INFORMATION
    Accreditation: 1 non-interactive CET point Duration: 1 hour Reference: C-76976 Modality ﷯ Audience and competencies ﷯ ﷯ ﷯ ﷯ ﷯ ﷯ ﷯ ﷯ ﷯ ﷯
  • SUMMARY AND PRESENTER
    Summary This discussion-based session is designed particularly to help the registered practitioner make sense of the published evidence about the benefits of good diet and wellbeing on ocular health and apply this to the individually tailored advice they give to patients. It will highlight the role nutrition plays in free radical production and antioxidant defence, and the role oxidative stress may play in age-related eye disease. About the presenter Ms Meena Puar BSc(Hons) MCOptom FBCLA Meena Puar is a qualified optometrist and dispensing optician. In June 2017 she also gained her fellowship for the British Contact Lens association. She currently works as a Professional Affairs Consultant for Thea Pharmaceuticals Limited and locums at an independent practice. She has also worked as a Professional Services Manager for Leightons Opticians and Hearing Care. This role involved refining and improving all touch points in the customer experience and customer journey, Leading and motivating ECPs in elevating clinical service offering by improving their knowledge and confidence, to monitor and improve each ECP’s performance using coaching and motivational support. Meena has also been involved in glaucoma and diabetic screening programmes which has meant working closely with local Hospital Eye Services.
  • LEARNING OBJECTIVES
    Learning objectives 1.1.1 The CLO will have an enhanced understanding how different patients may need differing advice about their diet and eye health, dependent on age, lifestyle factors, risk factors and existing ocular health concerns. 2.6.1 CLOs will have an enhanced awareness that dietary advice for contact lens wearers must only be given from an evidence-based approach and that your sources of knowledge be reflected upon to make sure you are giving sound advice to patients. 1.1.3 Optometrists will understand how different patient groups may need differing advice about their diet and eye health, dependent on age, lifestyle factors, risk factors and existing disease. 1.1.1 DOs will understand how different patient groups may need differing advice about their diet and eye health, dependent on age, lifestyle factors, risk factors and existing disease. 2.6.1 Optometrists will have an enhanced awareness that dietary advice must only be given from an evidence-based approach and that your sources of knowledge be reflected upon to make sure you are giving sound advice to patients. 2.6.1 DOs will have an enhanced awareness that dietary advice must only be given from an evidence-based approach and that your sources of knowledge be reflected upon to make sure you are giving sound advice to patients. 6.1.1 Optometrists will understand the role nutrition and smoking play in antioxidant defences and free radical production, respectively, such that ‘at risk’ patients can be identified 2.10.1 DOs will understand the role nutrition and smoking play in antioxidant defences and free radical production, respectively, such that - working in a support role within their scope of practice - they can identify ‘at risk’ patients and take appropriate action in consultation with the supervising optometrist.
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  • CET INFORMATION
    Accreditation: 1 non-interactive CET point Duration: 1 hour Reference: C-76976 Modality ﷯ Audience and competencies ﷯ ﷯ ﷯ ﷯ ﷯ ﷯ ﷯ ﷯ ﷯ ﷯
  • SUMMARY AND PRESENTER
    Summary This discussion-based session is designed particularly to help the registered practitioner make sense of the published evidence about the benefits of good diet and wellbeing on ocular health and apply this to the individually tailored advice they give to patients. It will highlight the role nutrition plays in free radical production and antioxidant defence, and the role oxidative stress may play in age-related eye disease. About the presenter Ms Meena Puar BSc(Hons) MCOptom FBCLA Meena Puar is a qualified optometrist and dispensing optician. In June 2017 she also gained her fellowship for the British Contact Lens association. She currently works as a Professional Affairs Consultant for Thea Pharmaceuticals Limited and locums at an independent practice. She has also worked as a Professional Services Manager for Leightons Opticians and Hearing Care. This role involved refining and improving all touch points in the customer experience and customer journey, Leading and motivating ECPs in elevating clinical service offering by improving their knowledge and confidence, to monitor and improve each ECP’s performance using coaching and motivational support. Meena has also been involved in glaucoma and diabetic screening programmes which has meant working closely with local Hospital Eye Services.
  • LEARNING OBJECTIVES
    Learning objectives 1.1.1 The CLO will have an enhanced understanding how different patients may need differing advice about their diet and eye health, dependent on age, lifestyle factors, risk factors and existing ocular health concerns. 2.6.1 CLOs will have an enhanced awareness that dietary advice for contact lens wearers must only be given from an evidence-based approach and that your sources of knowledge be reflected upon to make sure you are giving sound advice to patients. 1.1.3 Optometrists will understand how different patient groups may need differing advice about their diet and eye health, dependent on age, lifestyle factors, risk factors and existing disease. 1.1.1 DOs will understand how different patient groups may need differing advice about their diet and eye health, dependent on age, lifestyle factors, risk factors and existing disease. 2.6.1 Optometrists will have an enhanced awareness that dietary advice must only be given from an evidence-based approach and that your sources of knowledge be reflected upon to make sure you are giving sound advice to patients. 2.6.1 DOs will have an enhanced awareness that dietary advice must only be given from an evidence-based approach and that your sources of knowledge be reflected upon to make sure you are giving sound advice to patients. 6.1.1 Optometrists will understand the role nutrition and smoking play in antioxidant defences and free radical production, respectively, such that ‘at risk’ patients can be identified 2.10.1 DOs will understand the role nutrition and smoking play in antioxidant defences and free radical production, respectively, such that - working in a support role within their scope of practice - they can identify ‘at risk’ patients and take appropriate action in consultation with the supervising optometrist.
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