Events/News
Fall Meeting
Sunday, Sept 28, 2025
7:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Hilton Garden Inn
2840 South Caraway Road Jonesboro AR 72401
870-931-7727
We will offer 4 hours of Arkansas State Board and ABO credits
Please make your reservations as soon as possible to make sure you have a room if needed.
You will find the registration form for This meeting below. Please make sure you PRINT your email address, and please use the email address that you want your registration confirmation to be emailed to.
Upcoming Meetings
FALL Meeting
Sunday
Sept 28, 2025
CEC Jonesboro
WINTER Meeting
Sunday
Nov 9, 2025
CEC Bentonville
SPRING Meeting
Sunday
May 17, 2026
CEC Location TBD
agendas
Meeting Agendas
OPTICIANS ASSOCIATION OF ARKANSAS
AGENDAS
Sunday, September 28 Jonesboro Hilton Garden Inn
Pete Hamlin Speaker
|7:30 am - 8:00 am Seating and Questions
8:00 am –9:00 am Ocular Ramifications of Diabetes
9:00 am - 10:00 am Ophthalmic Merchandising
10:00 am - 11:00 am Fundamentals of Accommodation and Convergence
11:00 am –12:00 noon Psychological Safety in the Workplace
Sunday, November 9 Bentonville Doubletree Hotel
Jackie O’Keefe, LDO Speaker
|7:30 am - 8:00 am Seating and Questions
8:00 am –9:00 am What Is Good Vision
9:00 am - 10:00 am Finding Your Style In Lenses
10:00 am - 12:00 pm Ask, Share, Learn - Optical Round-table *
CEC Courses are Arkansas State Board and ABO Approved
* Ask, Share, Learn on 11/9 - Optical Round-table is also NCLE Approved
Please make sure you get the proper educational certificates stamped before you leave the class
Just remember to never stop growing and learning as an Optician!
Christina Seaton, OAA Past President