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The GPLI Eye Care Professional Membership gives you access to premier resources to help you advance your specialty contact lens practice. Your membership also supports the ongoing efforts of the GP Lens Institute. Membership renews on a calendar year basis. This can also make a wonderful gift!

List Your Practice on Our Locator

We maintain a database of U.S. eye care professionals who prescribe and fit specialty contact lenses. This list is used daily by consumers visiting our patient education website. Need to refer a patient? Or check to see if you are listed?  Click here to use the locator. Apply below to be added to our database.

Popular Resources

Order Printed Materials

Order literature for practitioners and staff as well as patients and consumers, such as brochures, reading cards, and guides.

Click 'n' Fit

Practice GP lens fitting and improve your skill at evaluating fluorescein patterns, all from the comfort of your computer.

Conversion Charts

Convert vertex and diopters to base curve radius with a quick look at these charts.

Coding and Billing Resources

Get valuable information from coding and billing expert Dr. Clarke Newman, including presentations, sample letters of medical necessity, and FAQ.

Contact Lens Clinical Pocket Guide

Concise clinical pearls pertaining to spherical GP, soft toric, GP back surface and bitoric, soft and GP multifocal, orthokeratology, keratoconus, and scleral lens designs.

Who We Serve

Students & Residents

We hold quarterly webinars that cater to students as well as provide resources such as lecture series, webinar archives, and informational literature.

Optometrists

We hold monthly webinars and quarterly COPE approved webinars that cater to eye care professionals and provide resources such as training materials and education on all types of specialty contact lenses.

Eye Care Professional Staff

We provide staff training materials, informational literature, laboratory resources, material lists, helpful links, and printed materials to elevate your contact lens practice.

Educators

We provide helpful resources an online curriculum for contact lens educators as well as quarterly webinars to share with your students. Educators get free GPLI ECP Membership.

Our Mission

The Gas Permeable (GP) Lens Institute is dedicated to providing the eye care community with unbiased education and practice-building resources to realize the full benefits and advantages of GP and custom soft contact lenses.

News

GPLI Announces New Executive Director

GPLI Announces New Executive Director

The GP Lens Institute is proud to announce that as of January 1, 2025 Jennifer Harthan OD, FAAO, FSLS will assume the role of Executive Director of the GP Lens Institute (GPLI). She will become the third Executive Director in the history of this organization and just the second since Dr. Ed Bennett – who announced his plans to retire this past June – assumed the role in January, 1988.

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Upcoming Events

October 24 – Student Webinar

“Billing and Coding Specialty Lenses”
8:00 pm Central
presented by Dr. Stephanie Woo
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November 19 – ECP Webinar

“Clinical Decision-Making When Choosing Myopia Control Contact Lenses”
8:00 pm Central
presented by Dr. Andrea Lasby
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December 17 – ECP Webinar

“Contact Lens Care Update”
8:00 pm Central
presented by Dr. Lindsay Sicks
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2024 Webinars

Our full 2024 webinar schedule is available!
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Education By Lens Type

Bitoric / High Astigmatism

Includes lens calculators, the Mandell-Moore and Newman guides, FAQs on when and how to fits torics, and more.

Corneal Reshaping

A wealth of webinars on overnight ortho-k and myopia control!

Keratoconus / Post Surgical

Post-surgical FAQs and nine webinars dealing with irregular cornea.

Presbyopia / Multifocals

Includes the “Building Your Practice with GP Multifocals” guide, FAQ, grand rounds and 10+ archived webinars.

Scleral Lenses

20+ webinars, troubleshooting FAQ, help with insurance claims and sample patient education.

Soft Specialty Lenses

10 webinars on soft and hybrid specialty lenses.

Spherical GP Lenses

Includes the popular Click ‘n’ Fit interactive educational module, webinars, FAQ, troubleshooting, and more.

Rising Stars

AWARD CEREMONY

Congratulations 2024 award winners!

Awards were presented January 20, 2024 at the Rising Stars reception during the Global Specialty Lens Symposium at Horseshoe Bally’s Las Vegas. Click on each winner for more info about them, the award, and a video of the presentation.

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