FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 9, 2009
Ocular Surgery News reports a record-breaking year for its OSN New York meeting
THOROFARE, NJ - Ocular Surgery News is pleased to report record-breaking attendance at its annual educational symposium, "OSN New York." Now in its 18th year, OSN New York surpassed its highest records in attendance, exhibits, and industry sponsorship. The meeting brought together nearly 350 ophthalmologists from 41 states and 11 countries - a 22% increase in attendance from 2008, and the exhibit hall was sold out with 22 participating companies.
"In these tough economic times, physicians, exhibitors, and industry have been forced to carefully select where they put their time and resources - and OSN New York has built their trust over the years as a quality experience for all," said Joan-Marie Stiglich, ELS, Senior Vice President of SLACK Incorporated, publisher of Ocular Surgery News.
OSN New York introduced a new three-day format in 2009, which offered attendees an expanded and more engaging program. New features and benefits included more continuing medical education credits, expanded content across all program sections, new subspecialty focus areas, additional interactive sessions scheduled throughout the program, and new dynamic product and service demonstrations taking place on stage in the exhibit hall.
"I think we can attribute some of this year's success to the program enhancements we were able to make with the new three-day format. We offered more credits, new and expanded topics, and an overall better meeting experience. This year's overwhelmingly positive outcome has me already looking forward to OSN New York 2010," said Richard L. Lindstrom, MD, OSN New York Course Director and Ocular Surgery News Chief Medical Editor.
OSN New York 2010 will be held November 19-21, 2010 at the Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers in New York City. The meeting will continue to provide comprehensive ophthalmologists with updates on clinical and surgical advances to improve patient care. Discussion topics include glaucoma, cataract surgery, lens-based refractive surgery, cornea-based refractive surgery, refractive IOLs, corneal health, new surgical techniques and technologies, and various subspecialty areas. See more details at www.OSNNY.com.
Ocular Surgery News and Vindico Medical Education are joint sponsors of OSN New York. As a twice-monthly newspaper that delivers clinical news with perspective to more than 18,000 ophthalmic physicians, OSN calls on the distinguished ophthalmologists of its Editorial Board to participate as faculty. Vindico Medical Education is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ to attending physicians.
Ocular Surgery News and Vindico Medical Education are also joint sponsors of the following eye care meetings: Hawaiian Eye 2010, Retina 2010, Kiawah Eye 2010, and Rome 2010. Meeting details are available at OSNSuperSite.com.
To register for OSN New York 2010, visit www.OSNNY.com or call 1-877-307-5225, ext. 219 or 476.
For more information on Ocular Surgery News, visit www.OSNSuperSite.com.
For more information on SLACK Incorporated, visit www.SLACKinc.com.
For more information on Vindico Medical Education, visit www.VindicoMedEd.com.
Media Contact: Patrick Duffey, Vice President, Mindworks Communications, 856-384-1793 ext. 262, pduffey@gomindworks.com.