NANOS-AAO Co-Sponsorship for the 2026 AAO Annual Meeting

Dear NANOS members:

As you might know, NANOS and the AAO have been offering co-branded courses at the AAO annual meeting.

The following steps are required for you as a senior instructor for an AAO annual meeting course to receive NANOS co-sponsorship:

 1.  Interested NANOS members should click here to request co-sponsorship for their AAO course by November 16.

2.  The AAO-NANOS committee will then circulate among members for review and make a final recommendation to the NANOS Board. 

3.  The NANOS Board will then decide on the results and NANOS will directly contact approved course directors.

4.  The Member can then submit their course to AAO directly. 

5. NANOS members submitting courses to the AAO annual meeting do NOT have to go through NANOS if they do not wish to have NANOS co-sponsorship and this will not impact the independent AAO selection process. 

6. Preference will be given to NANOS courses which are skills transfer-based or reach a large target audience and have a proven track record of success as judged by prior AAO evaluations. 

7. If you are applying for co-sponsorship for the first time, please submit a detailed summary of the proposed course (including course title, senior instructor, course outline, and evaluation score from the first year the course was presented) in this application form.

8. Those who previously had an approved co-sponsored course need to apply for co-sponsorship renewal. However, if the session proposed was previously approved, you must submit a written notification that the content of the course has not materially changed by completing this application form.

Previously approved co-sponsored courses:

• Pediatric Neuro-ophthalmology: Why Children are Not Just Small Adults – Grant T. Liu, MD
• Nystagmus & Oscillations – When Should I Worry? – Daniel Gold, DO
• Five Neuro-Ophthalmic Signs of Life-Threatening Pediatric Disease: Diagnoses not to be Missed - Gena Heidary
• The Swollen Optic Nerve: A Basic Guide to Evaluation and Management – Collin M. McClelland, MD
• Neuroimaging in Ophthalmology – Michael Vaphiades
• Basic and Clinical Science Course (BCSC) 5 Neuro-Ophthalmology: Pearls and Updates – Tariq Bhatti, MD
• Neuro-Imaging Toolbox for Ophthalmologists – Sangeeta Khanna, MD
• A Case-Based Approach to Pseudotumor Cerebri: What to Do and When to Do It! – Prem S. Subramanian, MD, PhD
• Curbside Consultation in Neuro-Ophthalmology – Andrew Lee, MD
• Diagnostic and Therapeutic Dilemmas in Neuro-Ophthalmology - Nancy J. Newman, MD
• Diplopia in an Adult: When Should You Worry – Madhura A. Tamhankar, MD
• Headache: A Pain for the Doctor and the Patient – Samuel J. Spiegel, MD
• Optic Neuritis – What are “NMOSD” and “MOG” and how are they different from MS? What the Comprehensive Ophthalmologist Needs to Know – Howard Pomeranz, MD, PhD
• Functional Ocular Complaints – Julie Falardeau, MD
• Neuro-Ophthalmological Immune Related Adverse Events of Targeted Cancer Therapy – Nagham Al-Zubidi, MD
• Down the Rabbit Hole: Making Sense of Cortical Visual Disturbances – Kimberly Winges, MD
• Emergency Neuro-Ophthalmology: Diagnosis and Management – Nicholas Volpe, MD
• Fun, Pharma, and Follies: A case-based discussion of toxic optic neuropathies – Andrew Carey, MD

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Regards, 

Madhura Tamhankar, MD
AAO Committee Chair

Chantal Boisvert, OD, MD
AAO Committee Vice Chair

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