COMPANY NEWS

■ Alcon recently opened the Alcon Experience Center, an eye health education and training center, located on Alcon’s Fort Worth, Texas campus. The 36,000-square-foot facility integrates products and technologies from Alcon’s three businesses — Surgical, Ophthalmic Pharmaceuticals and Vision Care — and includes a fully-equipped optometric training area. For more information, visit alcon.com

■ Mohinder Merchea, O.D., Ph.D., M.B.A., has been appointed head of medical affairs for Vision Care in the U.S. and Canada at Alcon. ■

■ Allergan plc entered into an exclusive licensing agreement with Mimetogen Pharmaceuticals to develop tavilermide for the treatment of dry eye disease.

■ AccuLens Inc. has launched a new website. The site features a virtual troubleshooting fitting guide, an improved online ordering feature and informational and educational tools and videos. Visit Acculens.com.

■ My CL Reorder, an auto messaging system introduced by CLX System, may help increase capture rate from contact lens patients by identifying patients who are due to reorder and automatically sending them an email or text message with a link to reorder their prescription.

■ Metro Optics will release its InSight Scleral contact lens at the 2016 Global Specialty Lens Symposium on Jan. 21-24. The lens features multifocal capability of up to +3.00D, says the company.

■ CEWire2016, the second annual virtual optometric conference from ODwire.org, will take place live online Jan. 16 and 17. Registration is required; visit cewire2016.org.

IN OTHER NEWS

■ Professor Kovin Naidoo was appointed CEO of Brien Holden Vision Institute. He served as interim CEO following the passing of Professor Brien Holden in July.

■ The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will add American Board of Optometry certification to the “Physician Compare” site on Medicare.gov.

■ To accommodate growing membership, the doctor alliance PECAA held two fall meetings in 2015 — one in LaJolla, Calif., in October and the other in Charlotte, NC, in November. For information, visit pecaa.com.

■ Vision Source announced it has entered into a relationship with Central Ohio Primary Care to provide eye health and vision services to the organization’s patient base. OM