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Unite For Sight Fifth Annual International Health & Development Conference

Building Global Health For Today and Tomorrow

April 12-13, 2008

Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

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Keynote Addresses By: Dr. Sachs, Dr. Sachs, Dr. Blumenthal,

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international development, medicine, nonprofits, eye care, philanthropy,

microfinance, social entrepreneurship, bioethics, economics, anthropology,

health policy, advocacy, environmental health, service-learning, medical

education, and public service.

Keynote Addresses

• " Global Health: Challenges and Opportunities in the 21st Century, "

Blumenthal, MD, MPA, Former US Assistant Surgeon General; Senior Advisor For

Health and Medicine; Former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Women's Health, U.S.

Department of Health and Human Services; Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at

town School of Medicine and Tufts University Medical Center

• " Bridging the Implementation Gap in Global Health, " Jim Yong Kim, MD,

PhD,Co-Founder, Partners in Health; Director, Francois Xavier Bagnoud Center for

Health and Human Rights; Francois Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human

Rights, Harvard School of Public Health; Chair, Department of Social Medicine,

Harvard Medical School; Chief of the Division of Social Medicine and Health

Inequalities, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Former HIV/AIDS Director at World

Health Organization

• " Issues in Global Women's Health, " Allan Rosenfield, MD, Dean, Mailman

School of Public Health, Columbia University

• " Common Wealth: Economics For A Crowded Planet, " Sachs, PhD,

Director of Earth Institute at Columbia University; Quetelet Professor of

Sustainable Development, Professor of Health Policy and Management, Columbia

University; Special Advisor to Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban

Ki-moon

• " Millennium Village Project " , Ehrlich Sachs,, MD, MPH, Health

Coordinator, Millennium Villages

Plus 180+ Speakers. Full List and Conference Schedule at

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Conference Schedule

Day 1: Saturday, April 12, 2008

08:30am-09:20am

Keynote Address by Dr. Blumenthal

" Global Health: Challenges and Opportunities in the 21st Century " ,

Blumenthal, MD, MPA, Former US Assistant Surgeon General, Clinical Professor of

Psychiatry at town School of Medicine and Tufts University Medical Center;

Senior Medical Advisor, amfAR (The Foundation for AIDS Research

09:25am-10:15am

Keynote Address By Dr. Allan Rosenfield

" Issues in Global Women's Health " , Allan Rosenfield, MD, Dean, Mailman School of

Public Health, Columbia University

10:20am-11:10am

Keynote Address By Dr. Jim Yong Kim

" Bridging the Implementation Gap in Global Health " , Jim Yong Kim, MD, PhD,

Co-Founder, Partners in Health; Director, Francois Xavier Bagnoud Center for

Health and Human Rights; Francois Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human

Rights, Harvard School of Public Health; Chair, Department of Social Medicine,

Harvard Medical School; Chief of the Division of Social Medicine and Health

Inequalities, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Former HIV/AIDS Director at World

Health Organization

11:15am-12:00pm

Plenary Panel - Building Capacity With Community Health Outreach Workers

Introduction:

• Jim Yong Kim, MD, PhD, Co-Founder, Partners in Health; Director, François

Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights; François Xavier Bagnoud

Professor of Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health; Chair,

Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Chief of the Division of

Social Medicine and Health Inequalities, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Former

HIV/AIDS Director at World Health Organization

Panelists:

• e, MD, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Crystal Eye Clinic,

Ghana

• Margaret Duah-Mensah, RN, ON, Ophthalmic Nurse, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana

• Eva , PhD, Associate Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases,

School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley; President,

Sustainable Sciences Institute

• Harshad Sanghvi, MD, Medical Director, JHPIEGO, s Hopkins University

01:00pm-02:30pm: Concurrent Sessions

Infectious Disease, Prevention, and Community Strategies

" Clowns Without Borders Project Njabulo - Developing Local Capacity for Play and

Emotional Relief for Children and Caregivers affected by HIV/AIDS in Southern

Africa " , Lachman, Clowns Without Borders

" Humanitarian Health and HIV/AIDS Crisis and Care Inside Dominican Republic's

Migrant Sugar Cane Plantations Bateyes " , Ulrick Gaillard, JD, Founder and

Executive Director, The Batey Relief Alliance

" Using National and International Advocacy and Media to Advance Social Change in

HIV-Prevention " , Adeyemi Oshodi, PATH

" Cytokine Mimicry and Immune Evasion by Leishmania " , Bucala, MD, PhD,

Yale University School of Medicine

The Environment and Global Health

" Scaling Up Provision of Safe Drinking Water in the Developing World " , Greg

Allgood, PhD, Director, Children's Safe Drinking Water, Procter & Gamble

" Can Market-Based Approaches Arrest The Killer In The Kitchen? The Promises and

Pitfalls of Commercializing Improved Cookstoves " , Bailis, PhD, Assistant

Professor, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

" Poisons in the Well: Exposure, Consequences and Remediation of Arsenic and

Manganese in Bangladesh " , Joe Graziano, PhD, Professor of Environmental Health

Sciences and Pharmacology; Associate Dean for Research, Columbia University

Mailman School of Public Health

" A Need to Incorporate Sound Waste Management Practices for Improving

Environmental Performance, Public Health Safety and Delivery of Quality

Healthcare by Clinical Laboratories in India - A Case Study " , Reema Banerjee,

MSc, PG Diploma in Hospital Management, Centre for Environment Education, India

Glaucoma

" Title To Be Announced " , Kuldev Singh, MD, Professor of Ophthalmology, Stanford

University

" Title To Be Announced " , Day, MD, Chair and Program Director, Pediatric

Ophthalmology and Strabismus, California Pacific Medical Center

" Tackling The African Glaucoma Challenges: Experiences From The Bawku Eye Care

Program " , Gyasi., MD, Ophthalmologist and Director of the Bawku Eye Care

Program, Ghana

" The Challenges of Glaucoma Care in West Africa " , Leon Herndon, MD, Associate

Professor of Ophthalmology, Duke University Eye Center

Perspectives on Nutrition and Malnutrition

" Addressing Vitamin and Mineral Deficiencies is a Key Building Block to Achieve

the Millennium Development Goals: A Summary of Progress and Prospects " , M.G.

Venkatesh Mannar, President, The Micronutrient Initiative

" Refocusing Malnutrition Interventions in Rural Haiti: A Strategic Evolution " ,

Adeline Azrack, Director of Monitoring and Evaluation, Hopital Albert Schweitzer

" Nutritional Management of Cataracts " , Heskel M. Haddad, MD, Clinical Professor

of Ophthalmology, New York Medical College

" Natural Therapies for Eye Health " , Rob Abel, MD, Delaware Ophthalmology

Consultants

Children's Health

" Orphan Life Abroad: How Children Live Without Parental Care " , Jane Aronson, MD,

Director, International Pediatric Health Services; Founder and Executive Medical

Director, Worldwide Orphans Foundation (WWO); Clinical Assistant Professor of

Pediatrics, Weill Medical College of Cornell University

" Exclusive Breastfeeding in Ethiopia: Barriers, Beliefs and Behavioral

Outcomes " , Dickinson, RN, Yale University School of Nursing

" Childhood Obesity Prevention in the Western Cape Region of South Africa " ,

D. , PhD, Vice President, Research Triangle Institute

" Blind Leading The Blind " , Philemon Yugi, MPH, Director for Health, Adventist

Development and Relief Agency (ADRA)

Humanitarian and Health Needs

" Children's Health is Global Wealth " , Padmini Murthy, MD, MPH, MS, Assistant

Professor, Department of Behavioral Science and Community Health, Program

Director Global Health, New York Medical College School of Public Health; NGO

Representative of Medical Women International Assocaition to the United Nations

" Violence Against Disabled Children: A Global Concern " , Nora Groce, PhD,

Associate Professor and Director, Yale/WHO Collaborating Centre, Global Health

Division, Yale School of Public Health

" Title To Be Announced " , Sheri Fink, MD, PhD, Kaiser Media Fellow; Visiting

Scientist, Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard

School of Public Health; Senior Fellow, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative

" Examining the Prevalence and Detriments of Couching in Ghana: The First

Documented Cataract Surgery Technique Continues in Northern Ghana " , Seth Wanye.,

MD, Ophthalmologist, Eye Clinic of Tamale Teaching Hospital, Ghana

Eye Care and Vision2020

" Update on IAPB and VISION 2020: The Right to Sight " , Louis Pizzarello, MD, MPH,

Secretary General, International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness

" Trachoma & Neglected Tropical Diseases: A Way For The Future " , Ibrahim Jabr,

President, International Trachoma Initiative

" Two Years of Working With Unite For Sight Volunteers, Experiences " ,

Baah, MD, MSc, Ophthalmologist, Our Lady of Grace Hospital, Ghana

" Operation Miracle " , Bourne, MA, MD, Visiting Scholar, Oxford University;

Vice Chancellor Emeritus, St. 's University; Formerly Special Assistant to

the President of the United States for Health Issues; Chair, Medical Education

ation with Cuba (MEDICC)

Philosophies of Health Care

" Health Diplomacy " , Kaveh Khoshnood, PhD, Assistant Professor in Public Health

Practice, Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public

Health

" Measuring Impacts " , Dean Karlan, PhD, President and Founder of Innovations for

Poverty Action; Assistant Professor of Economics, Yale University

" Philosophies of Care - Transforming Communities Through Empowerment " , Cliff

O'Callahan, MD, PhD, Pediatric Faculty, Middlesex Hospital Family Practice

Program; Chair, AAP Section on International Child Health

" Doctors..and Africa " , Ted M. Alemayhu, Founder, Chairman and CEO, US Doctors

For Africa

Global Health Training For Undergraduates, Medical Students, and Residents

" A Non-Traditional Approach to Global Health Training: The Penn Program " , Neal

son, MD, Associate Dean, Global Health Programs, University of

Pennsylvania School of Medicine

" Residency Based Fellowships in Global and Underserved Health - Who Are the

Stakeholders? " , Loeliger, MD, MS, Faculty Physician, Contra Costa Regional

Medical Center

" The Role of Volunteers in Tamale: Providing Assistance To The Only

Ophthalmologist Serving 2 Million People " , Seth Wanye, MD, Ophthalmologist, Eye

Clinic of Tamale Teaching Hospital, Ghana

" Volunteering in Tamale, Ghana " , Ruru Wang, BA Candidate, Mount Holyoke College;

Unite For Sight Volunteer in Tamale, Ghana

" Volunteering in Tamale, Ghana " , Hux, BS Candidate, Yale University;

Unite For Sight Volunteer in Tamale, Ghana

" Volunteering in Tamale, Ghana " , Isbey, BA Candidate, Dartmouth College;

Unite For Sight Volunteer in Tamale, Ghana

Innovative Strategies to Improve Health in the Developing World

" Heart Disease as a Global Chronic Problem - A Challenge For The UN Millennium

Initiative " , Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD, Director, The Zena and A. Wiener

Cardiovascular Institute; Director, The Marie-e and Henry R. Kravis Center

for Cardiovascuclar Health; Gorlin, MD/Heart Research Foundation

Professor, Mount Sinai; Past-President, American Heart Association; Past

President, World Heart Federation

" Raising Malawi " , Philippe van den Bossche, Executive Director, Raising Malawi

" Global Grid Computing Initiative to Discover Dengue Antivirals " , Stan Watowich,

Associate Professor, University of Texas Medical Branch

" Keeping the Cost of Community Cataract Surgery as Low as Possible " , Satyajit

Sinha, MBBS, Ophthalmologist, AB Eye Institute, Patna, India

02:35pm-04:05pm: Concurrent Sessions

Humanitarian Emergencies

" Addressing Serious Mental Disorders in Complex Humanitarian Emergencies " , Lynne

, MA, MBChB, MRCPysch PhD

" Disabilities Among Refugee and Conflict-Affected Populations--Nature and Scope

of the Issue, Interventions and Approaches " , Carolyn Makinson, PhD, Executive

Director, Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children

" What Happens When Child Soldiers Grow-up? Mozambique Life Outcome Study " , Neil

Boothby, EdD, Professor of Clinical Population and Family Health; Director,

Program on Forced Migration and Health, Mailman School of Public Health

" Successful Strategies For Delivering Eye Care at a Refugee Camp " , Margaret

Duah-Mensah, RN, ON, Ophthalmic Nurse, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana

Examining Women's Health

" Women's Global Health and Human Rights " , Mini Murthy, MD, MPH, MS, Assistant

Professor, Department of Behavioral Science and Community Health, Program

Director Global Health, New York Medical College School of Public Health

" Increasing Income, Confidence and Business Growth for Low-Income Women " , Fiona

Macaulay, President, Making Cents International

" Infertility in Developing Countries: Scope, Psychosocial Burden and Need for

Action " , Anke Hemmerling, MD, PhD, MPH, UCSF Women's Global Health Imperative

" Understanding the Relationship between Women's Participation and Community

Health in Uttar Pradesh, India " , Ruger, PhD, MSc, Assistant Professor,

Division of Global Health, Yale School of Public Health; Co-Director of the

Yale/World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Health Promotion,

Policy and Research; Interdisciplinary Research Methods Core Investigator,

Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS

HIV/AIDS Crisis and Care

" Is China's economic boom delivering public health along with prosperity? A

close look at AIDS " , Ken Legins, Chief, HIV/AIDS Programme, UNICEF Office for

China, Beijing

" Promoting HIV/AIDS Education Despite Social and Cultural Barriers " , Piya

Sorcar, MA, PhD Candidate, Stanford University

" Male Circumcision for HIV Prevenion: Cutting Edge Opportunities in Global

Health Collaborations " , Inon Schenker, PhD, MPH, Senior HIV/AIDS Prevention

Specialist; Director, International Department; Chair, Israeli Multi-Center

Research Group on Male Circumcision; The Jerusalem AIDS Project

" A Sustainable Approach to Nutrition for People Living with HIV/AIDS in Rwanda " ,

Morell, BA Candidate, Yale University

Perspectives on Glaucoma and Retinal Diseases

" Glaucoma Neuroprotection 2008: New Therapies on the Horizon " , C. Tsai,

MD, R. Young Professor and Chairman, Department of Ophthalmology and

Visual Sciences, Yale University School of Medicine; Chief of Ophthalmology,

Yale-New Haven Hospital

" Glaucoma Screening in Connecticut " , Hall Forster, MD, Associate Clinical

Professor, Department of Medical Studies, Department of Ophthalmology, Yale

School of Medicine; Chief, Ophthalmology, Yale University Health Services

" Pediatric Glaucoma " , Sarwat Salim, MD, Ophthalmologist

" Management of Age-Related Macular Degeneration " , Adelman, MD, MPH,

Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Director of Retina Service, Yale

University School of Medicine

Atrocities, Refugees, and Vulnerable Persons: Perspectives on Entrepreneurship,

Health Care, and Education

" Atrocities and Social Entrepreneurship " , Zachary Kaufman, Zachary Kaufman,

MPhil in International Relations, University of Oxford; DPhil (PhD) candidate in

International Relations, University of Oxford; JD candidate, Yale University Law

School

" Transcending Trauma & Relentless Compassion: Indicators of Posttraumatic Growth

(PTG) in Peer Support Counselors in Liberia - How They Help and What They

Carry " , Gwen Vogel, PsyD, Director of Field Operations, SalusWorld

" Educational Entrepreneurship: Linking Schools Continents Apart " , King,

MA, Elementary School Teacher, Intermediate School; Unite For Sight

Volunteer in Accra, Ghana

" HIV/AIDS, Orphans and other Vulnerable Children: The Crisis, Consequences, and

Responses " , Klaber, Founder, Orphans Against AIDS

Medical Care in the Developing World

" Filling the Gap: A Model For Surgical Capacity Building In Rural China " ,

Corlew, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer, Interplast

" Surgical Care in Angola: Perspectives From Two Hospitals " , Riviello, MD,

MPH, Associate Surgeon, Instructor in Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital

" Key Components for the Development of an Emergency Healthcare System: The

Ethiopian Experience " , Tenagne Haile-m, MD, Assistant Professor, The

Washington University Medical School

" Self Sustainability - The Mantra For Manging Avoidable Blindness " , V. Panneer

Selvam, MS, DO, MPhil, Arasan Eye Hospital, India

Eye Care in the Developing World

" Trachoma in Northern Ghana: Same Factors, Different Patterns " , Gyasi,

MD, Ophthalmologist and Director of the Bawku Eye Care Program, Ghana

" Cataract Blindness in Developing Countries and SEE International " , Harry S.

Brown, MD, Founder, Surgical Eye Expeditions (SEE) International

" Community Eye Care in India " , Umang Mathur, MS, Consultant Ophthalmologist,

Associate Director and Head of Department of Ophthalmology, Dr. Shroff's Charity

Eye Hospital, India

" Title To Be Announced " , Friedman, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of

Ophthalmology and International Health, s Hopkins University

" Public Health Strategies for Effective Medical Missions Overseas " ,

Mladenovich, OD, FAAO, MPH Candidate, Fellow, World Council of Optometry;

External Examiner, International Rescue Committee, Thailand

Volunteering Abroad

" Akwaaba! Volunteer Ophthalmology in Breman Asikuma, Ghana " , Hudson, MD,

JD, MPA, Ophthalmologist, Unite For Sight Volunteer in Breman Asikuma, Ghana

" A Memorable Experience: Volunteering in Chennai, India " , Abrahim Bagheri, BS

Candidate, Loyola mount University; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Chennai,

India

" Perspectives on Volunteering in Chennai, India " , Chiwing Qu, BA

Candidate, Yale University; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Chennai, India

" Title To Be Announced " , , MPH, MD Candidate, University of Rochester

School of Medicine; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Bihar, India

" From Cataract Camps to Quality Assurance: A month at Dr. Shroff's Charity Eye

Hospital " , Farah, MD Candidate, Jefferson Medical College; Unite For

Sight Volunteer in New Delhi, India

" An Eye-Opener in India: Volunteering to Elminate Preventable Blindness " , Hibah

Ayaz, BA Candidate, Union College; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Chennai, India

" Perspectives of a Medical Student on Volunteering in Chennai, India " , Pradeep

Mettu, MD Candidate, University of Kentucky School of Medicine

" Volunteering in Asikuma Breman, Ghana " , Diamond, BA Candidate, Yale

University; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Tamale, Ghana

Panel: University Partnerships and International Health

" Youth Engagement in Development Stategies: through the lens of Global Youth

Service Day " , Silvia Golombek, Senior Vice President, Youth Service America

" Introducing Students to Global Health " , Sarabeth Gottlieb, CNM, MS, Lecturer,

Yale University School of Nursing

" Break the Cycle of Disadvantage and Disability " , Rubin, MD, Visiting

Scholar, Department of Pediatrics, Morehouse School of Medicine; Founder and

President, Institute for the Study of Disadvantage and Disability; Co-Director,

Southeast Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit, Emory University

" Collaborating to Create the Future of Family Medicine: A Japanese-American

Exchange " , Vines, MD, MPH, Oregon Health and Science University

" International Educational Exchanges: Challenges and Opportunities " , Barbara

Allerton and Otterness, RN, MSN, Assistant Professor, Department of

Nursing, Boise State University

" International Nurse Education: Simulation Plays A Part in Global Standards of

Practice " , Ann , RN, MSN, CPNP, Old Dominion University/Operation Smile

International

" Shoulder to Shoulder Ecuador: A University-Community Partnership for Health " ,

Hopenhayn and Young, MD, Department of Pediatrics, University of

Kentucky; Shoulder to Shoulder

" Towards an African Renaissance: Offering a Master's Degree to Nursing Students

in Angola: a Distance Education Experience " , ita Tjallinks, RN, MCur, in

Health Studies, Midwife, Department of Health Studies, University of South

Africa

Panel: Global Health and the Internet

" Global Health and the Internet: A Panel " , Suzanne Rainey, Forum One

Communications

" Global Health and the Internet: A Panel " , Freifeld, Healthmap.org

" Global Health and the Internet: A Panel " , Kurt Voelker, Forum One

Communications

" Global Health and the Internet: A Panel " , Abbott, RN, PhD, s

Hopkins School of Medicine and School of Nursing

04:10pm-05:00pm: Concurrent Sessions

Cultural Presentation: Kongo - The Ultimate Black Civilization

" Kongo: The Ultimate Black Civilization " , Farris , PhD, Col.

Trumbull Professor of the History of Art, Yale University

04:10pm-05:40pm: Concurrent Sessions

International Health By The People, For The People

" Science, Technology, and Innovation in Developing Countries: By The People, For

The People " , Eva , PhD, Associate Professor, Division of Infectious

Diseases, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley;

President, Sustainable Sciences Institute

" Unite For Sight To The Rescue: An Example Worth Emulating " , e, MD,

Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana

" Civil Society: Mobilizing Community Health Workers for Malaria Control " , Anne

-Staple, PhD, Research Scholar, Duke University

" Satisfying Transportation Needs in Rural Africa With Sustainable Local

Solutions: The Bamboo Bicycle " , Mutter, PhD, MSc, Deputy Director and

Associate Vice Provost, The Earth Institute at Columbia; Professor, Department

of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University; Professor,

International and Public Affairs, Columbia University; Bamboo Bike Project

A Call To Action To Improve Health

" Global Health Inequality: A Call to Understanding and Action " , ONeil Jr,

MD, Founder, Omni Med; Author, Awakening Hippocrates: Primer on Health, Poverty,

and Global Service, and A Practical Guide to Global Health Service

" The Highest Attainable Standard: The Implications of an Evolving Human Right to

Health for Public Health and Global Health Systems " , Mason Meier, JD,

LLM, MPhil; IGERT-International Development and Globalization Fellow, Columbia

University

" Engaging the Public: Improving Our Health " , s , MD, Executive

Director, American Public Health Association

" Health For All Now " , Elvira Beracochea, MD, MPH, Founder, President and CEO,

MIDEGO

University Collaboration in Global Infectious Diseases Research

" Reduced Efficacy of Benzimidazole Anthelminthics in Kintampo, Ghana " ,

Cappello, MD, Professor of Pediatrics and Epidemiology and Public Health;

Director, Program in International Child Health; Co-Director, International

Adoption Clinic, Yale University School of Medicine

" Preventing Mother to Child Transmission of HIV in Resource-limited Settings

through Research Capacity Building " , Elijah Paintsil, MD, Associate Research

Scientist, Department of Pediatrics, Yale School of Medicine

" Tuberculosis and HIV Research at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital " , Awewura

Kwara, MD, Brown University

" Title To Be Announced " , , MD, Parasitology Unit, Noguchi Memorial

Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana

Glaucoma and Cornea Transplants in the Developing World

" People, Places, and Genes: How World Populations Are Helping Us Find The Cause

of Glaucoma. " , R. Rand Allingham, MD, Professor of Ophthalmology; Director,

Glaucoma Service, Duke University Eye Center

" Tema Eye Survey " , Budenz, MD, MPH, Professor of Ophthalmology,

Epidemiology, and Public Health, University of Miami School of Medicine

" Estimating The Impact of a Safe, Effective, and Easily-Inserted Drainage Device

for the Treatment of Glaucoma in the Developed and Developing World " ,

Goldberg, MD, MBA Candidate, Yale University School of Medicine

" Keratoprosthesis in the Developing World " , Ament, MD, MPh, Clinical

Research Fellow, Ophthalmlology & Corneal Surgery, Massachusetts Eye and Ear

Infirmary, Harvard Medical School; Harvard School of Public Health

Community Health Models

" The Honduras Slow Sand Filter Project " , Vidush Philip Athyal, MD, MPH,

Fellow/Clinical Instructor, University of Rochester Medical Center

" Delivering on the MDGs: Equity and Maternal Health " , Emma Sachs, Health Equity

Team, Earth Institute, Columbia University

" Lok Swasthya Sewa, a Model Health ative in Ahmedabad, India " , Chirag

Shah, MD, Chief Resident, Wills Eye Hospital

" Health and Education at Grace Children's Hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti " ,

Jeannine Hatt, MD, Past-President, International Child Care USA; Board of

Directors and Chair, International Child Care's Medical Resource Development

Clinic

Orphans and Children

" Orphans and Vulnerable Children in the Urban Slums of Africa " , ,

PhD, Professor, s Hopkins University

" A Pilot Therapeutic Feeding Program for Malnourished Orphans in Ukraine " ,

M. Spector, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, UMass Memorial

Children's Medical Center

" Advancing Educational Opportunities for Children who are Blind with Additional

Impairments " , Rothstein, President, Perkins School for the Blind

" Childhood Blindness And Its Prevention " , Kartee Karloweah, ON, RN, Ophthalmic

Nurse, Unite For Sight-Ghana

Panel: Examining Strategies in Community Health

" Oral Health: Essential Element in Achieving the Millennium Development Goals " ,

Habib Benzian, , MSc, Director Public Health & Development, FDI World Dental

Federation, France

" Community Health Improvement in a Nomadic Village on the Eastern Tibetan

Plateau " , Chin, MPH, PhD, MA, Assistant Professor, Department of Community

and Preventive Medicine, University of Rochester

" Interdisciplinary Collaboration to Improve Health and Social Services in

Vietnam " , Lan Gien, BSc, MEd, PhD, Professor of Nursing, Memorial University of

Newfoundland

" HIV/AIDS Knowledge and Assessment of Health Care Providers in Dominian

Republic, India and others " , Ellen Palmer, RN, PhD, Assistant Clinical

Professor, University of Texas at Arlington School of Nursing

" Home Visit Project of Blind Babies Foundation and Perspektiva of the Volga

Region in Russia " , Bernas-Pierce, MEd, Executive Director, Blind Babies

Foundation

" Implementation of a Comprehensive Community-Based Tuberculosis Control Program

in Eastern Burma's Chronic Conflict Zone " , , MD, Assistant

Professor of Emergency Medicine; Associate Director of the Division of

International Medicine, University of Southern California and Global Health

Access Program

" Increasing Access to and Use of Skilled Maternal and Newborn Care in Dumka

District of India " , t MacDowell, MA, Senior Program Manager, JHPIEGO

" Protecting Border Security and Health: Effective Strategies for Monitoring and

Treating Malaria among Burma's IDPs " , Whichard, Program Director, Global

Health Access Program

Health Care in Latin America

" A Binational Stanford - Mexico Health Advocacy Program - Partners to Address

Immigrant Health " , , MD, Professor of Medicine, Associate Dean of

Medical School Admissions, Stanford University School of Medicine

" An Extremely Affordable Device To Improve Asthma Care " , Green, PhD, MD

Candidate, Stanford University School of Medicine

" Ethical Dilemmas in International Medicine: Cases from the Honduran Health

Alliance " , Bonzo Reddick, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, University of North

Carolina-Chapel Hill

" Utilization of PDA's by Community Health Workers for Field Collection of

Malaria Statistics in Rural Haiti " , Nick Mann, BA Candidate, Truman State

University

College and Medical Student Perspectives on Volunteering Abroad

" Bihar Summer Volunteer: Perspiration, Inspiration and Mangoes " , Ow

Chapman, MD Candidate, NYU School of Medicine

" Volunteering in Accra, Ghana " , Lich, BA Candidate, Southern Methodist

University; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Accra, Ghana

" The Roads of Ghana " , Vekhter, BA Candidate, Yale University; Unite For

Sight Volunteer in Asikuma Breman, Ghana

" Title To Be Announced " , Hafeezah , BA Candidate, University of North

Carolina at Chapel Hill; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Accra, Ghana

" Journeying through India with a New Set of Eyes " , Rosh and Roshan Sethi, BS

Candidate, Yale University; Unite For Sight Volunteers in New Delhi, India

" Tamale, Ghana " , Shakira -, BA Candidate, Yale University; Unite

For Sight Volunteer in Tamale, Ghana

" Four women, three men, two cows, and a truck: Tales from Chennai, India " ,

Lin, BS, Unite For Sight Volunteer in Chennai, India

" New Vision in Ghana: Volunteering in Accra " , Furlow, MD Candidate,

University of Kentucky School of Medicine; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Accra,

Ghana

Strategies To Provide Health Care To Populations: Africa and Asia

" Effective approaches to enhance coverage of vitamin A supplementation in

Sub-Saharan Africa " , Werner Schultink, MD, Chief Child Development and

Nutrition, UNICEF

" Trends in Trichiasis Surgery and Antibiotics Mass Treatment in Trachoma Control

in 10 African and Asian Countries in 2004-2006 " , Sam Abbenyi, MD, MSc, Director,

Programs and Logistics, International Trachoma Initiative

" Combating The Obosogenic Environment: An Overview of the Scope of the Issue on

a Global Basis " , Whitehead, PhD, Research Associate Professor, University

of Missouri-Kansas City School of Nursing

" Volunteering in Chennai, India " , Ravin Bastiampillai, BSc Student, University

of Alberta

05:00pm-05:40pm: Concurrent Sessions

Retinal Lesions and Indirect Ophthalmoscopy

" The Healing of Retinal Photocoagulation Lesions " , Yannis us, MD Candidate,

Stanford University School of Medicine

" Instruction Course With Live Hands-On Using Indirect Ophthalmoscope For

Optometrists To Help Diagnose Retinal Diseases at the Community Level " , Pooja

Sinha., MBBS, Ophthalmologist, AB Eye Institute, Patna, India

Day 2: Sunday, April 13, 2008

08:45am-09:35am

Keynote Address By Dr. Sachs

" Common Wealth: Economics For A Crowded Planet " , Sachs, PhD, Director of

Earth Institute at Columbia University; Quetelet Professor of Sustainable

Development, Professor of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University;

Special Advisor to Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon

09:40am-10:30am

Millennium Village Project

" Millennium Villages " , Ehrlich Sachs, MD, MPH, Health Coordinator,

Millennium Village Project

10:30am-11:10am

Plenary Panel - The Need For A Global Coalition of Good

Introduction:

• Sachs, PhD, Director of Earth Institute at Columbia University;

Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, Professor of Health Policy and

Management, Columbia University; Special Advisor to Secretary-General of the

United Nations Ban Ki-moon

Panelists:

• Ted M. Alemayhu, Founder, Chairman and CEO, US Doctors For Africa

• ONeil Jr, MD, Founder, Omni Med; Author, Awakening Hippocrates:

Primer on Health, Poverty, and Global Service, and A Practical Guide to Global

Health Service

• Seth Wanye, MD, Ophthalmologist, Eye Clinic of Tamale Teaching Hospital,

Ghana

11:15am-11:55am: Concurrent Sessions

Plenary Panel - Brain Drain: The Health, Development, and Economic Effects on

African Countries

Introduction:

• Sachs, PhD, Director of Earth Institute at Columbia University;

Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, Professor of Health Policy and

Management, Columbia University; Special Advisor to Secretary-General of the

United Nations Ban Ki-moon

• Ehrlich Sachs, MD, MPH, Health Coordinator, Millennium Villages

Panelists:

• Baah, MD, MSc, Ophthalmologist, Our Lady of Grace Hospital, Ghana

• e, MD, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Crystal Eye Clinic,

Ghana

• Gyasi, MD, Ophthalmologist and Director of the Bawku Eye Care

Program, Ghana

• Seth Wanye, MD, Ophthalmologist, Eye Clinic of Tamale Teaching Hospital,

Ghana

The Four Heartbeats of Social Entrepreneurship

" The Four Heartbeats of Social Entrepreneurship " , , PhD,

Assistant Professor, NYU Stern School of Business

01:00pm-02:30pm: Concurrent Sessions

Innovative Global Health Solutions

" Bridging the gap between knowing the right thing to do and doing it right " ,

Harshad Sanghvi, MD, Medical Director, JHPIEGO, s Hopkins University

" Innovative Approaches to Public Private Partnerships in Kenya's Health and

Youth Sectors " , Georgia Sambunaris, MA, Senior Financial Markets Specialist,

USAID

" Innovative Market Based Solutions in Global Health " , Omer Imtiazuddin, MBA,

Health Portfolio Manager, Acumen Fund

" Public Private Partnerships in Action: ExxonMobil's approach to making a

difference on malaria's human toll in Africa " , C. , MD, MPH,

Medical Director, Global Issues and Projects, Exxon Mobil Corporation

Perspectives on Eye Care and Outreach

" Managing Technology to Advance Eye Care " , Ismael Cordero, Advisor, Healthcare

Technology, Orbis

" Maximizing Limited Resources to Provide Outreach Eye Care " , Satya Verma, OD,

FAAO, Director, Community Eye Care, Pennsylvania College of Optometry

" Ophthalmology in the Holy Land: The Eye Hospital of St. of Jerusalem " ,

Steve Hudson, MD, JD, MPA, Ophthalmologist, Member of the Order of St.

(M.St..J), Unite For Sight Volunteer

" Training Community Eye Workers in Ghana and Liberia: The Good, The Bad, and The

Ugly " , Glenn Strauss, MD, Vice President of International Health Care and

Programs, Mercy Ships, Int'l

Obstetric Fistula: Film-Based Campaigning

" Obstetric and Traumatic Fistula: Film-based Campaigning for Global Women's

Health " , , MPH, Filmmaker

02:35pm-04:05pm: Concurrent Sessions

HIV/AIDS

" The Bad Road to Good Health: The Clinton Foundation's Initiative to Build

Healthcare Capacity in Rural Areas " , Andy Ellner, MD, Clinton HIV/AIDS

Initiative

" Antiretroviral Drugs and Issues of Drug Access and Quality in the Developing

World " , Terry Blaschke, MD, Professor of Medicine and of Molecular Pharmacology

(Active Emeritus), Stanford University School of Medicine

" The End of AIDS - IAVI and the Search for a Vaccine to Prevent HIV " ,

McGoldrick, Senior Vice President, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI)

" Clinical Mentoring Rapidly Improves Clinic Management Systems for HIV Care in

Resource-Limited Settings " , Graves-Abe, MIA, Director of Operations,

International Center For Equal Healthcare Access (ICEHA)

Ophthalmology: Pediatrics, Glaucoma, Retina, and Cataracts

" Advantages of Using an Economical Anti-VEGF For Treating Retinal Diseases in

India " , Pooja Sinha, MBBS, Ophthalmologist, AB Eye Institute, Patna, India

" Is That Angle Occludable? " , Syril K. Dorairaj, MD, Clinical Research Fellow,

Glaucoma Associates of New York, The New York Eye and Ear Infirmary

" The Use of Multifocal and Accomdative Intraocular Lenses in Cataract Surgery " ,

, MD, Danbury Eye Physicians and Surgeons

" Homocysteine and Eye Disease " , Radcliffe, MD, Glaucoma Service at New

York Eye & Ear Infirmary

" Epidemiology of Exfoliation Syndrome " , Ilya Rozenbuam, MD, GANY Glaucoma

Fellow, New York Eye and Ear Institute

Quality and Equality

" Civil Society Advocacy For The Right To Health " , Leonard stein, Executive

Director, Physicians for Human Rights

" Corporate/Professional initiatives: Co-operation to Address Unmet Medical

Needs " , Doug Lawrence, Vice President/General Manager, BD Medical - Ophthalmic

Systems

" Doing it The Quality Way Because It Is In Equality " , P. Berman, OD, FAAO,

Senior Global Clinical Advisor and Founder, Special Olympics Lions Clubs,

International Opening Eyes

" The Global Marketization of Health Services: Promoting Inequity, Inequality and

Exclusion " , Ellen Rosskam, PhD, MPH, Public Health & Social Protection

Specialist; Policy Scholar, Woodrow International Center for Scholars;

Visiting Professor, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Work Environment

Department; Visiting Senior Fellow, University of Surrey, European Institute of

Health and Medical Sciences, England

04:10pm-05:00pm: Concurrent Sessions

Medical Education in the Developing World

" Creation of a Medical School in Botswana " , Major Bradshaw, MD, Founding Dean,

University of Botswana School of Medicine

" Undergraduate Medical Education in the University of Ghana Medical School: A

Student's Perspective " , Tshepo Mbalambi, BSc, Med Sci, MBcHB Candidate,

University of Ghana Medical School

04:10pm-05:40pm: Concurrent Sessions

Neglected Tropical Diseases

" Empowering Communities in the Fight to Eliminate Neglected Tropical Diseases " ,

Kari Stoever, Director, Neglected Tropical Diseases, Sabin Vaccine Institute

" Tackling The Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs): The Role of PLoS NTDs in

Building Capacity " , Gavin Yamey, MD, MRCP, Senior Editor, PLoS Medicine;

Consulting Editor, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

" Trachoma Control; Challenges for 2020 " , Quinn, MD, Director, s

Hopkins Center for Global Health

" The Slaying of Dragons: Guinea Worm Eradication " , Michele Barry, MD, FACP,

Professor of Medicine and Global Health Director, Office of International

Health; Chief, General Medicine Firm, Yale University School of Medicine

Strategies To Eliminate Preventable Blindness

" Addressing the Need for Reduction of Uncorrected Refractive Error in Persons

With intellectual Disability through Participate in Special Olympics Lions Clubs

International Opening Eyes Vision Program. " , Sandy Block, OD, Illinois College

of Optometry

" Eliminating the Needless Loss of Sight That Occurs During Sports " , Berman,

OD, FAAO, Senior Global Clinical Advisor and Founder, Special Olympics Lions

Clubs, International Opening Eyes

" Challenges of Building a Charitable Eye Hospital in India " , Satyajit Sinha.,

MBBS, Ophthalmologist, AB Eye Institute, Patna, India

" Low cost Comprehensive Eye care models and Its replicability " , Sarang Samal,

Kalinga Eye Hospital, Orissa, India