Final Call for Abstracts - International Health Conference

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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS - Unite For Sight's 3rd

Annual International

Health Conference

"Empowering Communities to Bridge Health Divides"

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: AUGUST 15

When: April 1-2, 2006

Where: Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

Theme: "Empowering Communities to Bridge Health Divides"

Who should attend? Anyone interested in medicine, health

education, health promotion, public health, international health,

international service, or eye care

Conference Goal: To empower conference attendees to identify

health needs and to develop solutions to improve access to care for the

medically underserved

How to Register - Early Bird Registration! http://www.uniteforsight.org/2006_annual_conference.php

Early Bird Registration Rate: $25 student rate; $30 for all

others

How to Submit Abstract: http://www.uniteforsight.org/2006_conference_posters.php

Abstract Categories - Submission Deadline August 15

International Medicine and International Health

Public Health

Scientific Research

Advocacy and Health Policy

Nonprofits in Health

FEATURED

SESSIONS - Additional Speakers To Be Announced

Keynote Address

"Environment, Behavior and Health: Societies Matter" Al

Sommer, MD, MHS

The Health of Women and

Children: A Global Overview

"Women's

Health: A Global Overview," Allan

Rosenfield, MD

"Strengthening Community Capacity for Maternal, Newborn and Child

Health,"

MacCormack

"The Challenges of Pediatric AIDS in Africa - A Lesson in Hope and

Humanity" Shaffiq

Essajee, BMBCh

Strategies in Global Health

"Global

Health Governance in a Time of Rapid Change: Opportunities and Concerns"

Yach, MBChB, MPH

"Community Approaches to Achieve Global Health Goals,"

Kumaresan, MD, MPH, Dr.PH

Andre-Jacques

Neusy, MD, DTM & H

Nora

Groce, PhD

"Public-Private Partnership as a Strategy for Addressing Global

Health

Issues: Lessons Learned from The Mectizan Donation Program,"

Colatrella

Community Strategies to

Improve

Eye Care

"Update on

Vision 2020: the Right to Sight," Louis

Pizzarello, MD

"Barriers to Eye Care: Results of Qualitative Research," Rosie

Janiszewski, MS, CHES

Ilene

Gipson, PhD

"Teaching the Teachers: Empowering Refugee Communities Through

School-Based

Education," Valda

Ford, MPH, MS, RN

"Community Strategies To Improve Eye Care," Satya

B. Verma, OD, FAAO

Janet

Leasher, OD, MPH

"Volunteer Optometric Services to Humanity Globalizing Eye Care"

Harry

I. Zeltzer, OD

"Strategic planning for trachoma control in nine endemic

countries," A.

Sam-Abbenyi, MD, MSc

Building Capacity Through

Surgical Eye Care

"Sustainable

Surgical Eye Care Delivery,"

Sheffield and Barrows, MPH

Harry

S. Brown, MD

"Challenges and Successes of Surgical Eye Care in Africa,"

Schanzer, MD

Refractive Error: From Needs

To

Eyeglass Empowerment

"Estimates of

Functional Blindness and Impaired Vision Due To Uncorrected Refractive

Error," Brien

A. Holden, PhD, DSc, OAM

"Community-Based, Self-Sustaining, Easy-to-Replicate InFOCUS Vision

Stations: Helping to Meet and Increasing Need for Primary Vision Care,

Head-On" Ian

B.

Berger, M.D., M.P.H. Dr.PH

"Social Entrepreneurship and Presbyopia" Jordan

Kassalow, OD, MPH

Silver, PhD

Glaucoma Angles and Approaches

"What is

Glaucoma?"

Ritch, MD

"Glaucoma Care For The Medically Underserved in the U.S."

Wand, MD

"Glaucoma Screening in a High Risk Population of New Haven,"

Bruce

Shields, MD

"Population Based Glaucoma Screening, Why Not To Do It,"

Standefer, MD

Leon

W. Herndon, MD

W.

Vision Screening Strategies

Bruce

, OD

Weissberg, OD

Vision and Clinical Research

Shachar

Tauber, MD

"The Ethics Behind Clinical Research in Developing Nations,"

D. , MD

Breakout Workshop Sessions

Cultural Competency

"Lessons from

the Camps: Why You Should Not Hug the Monk and other Faux Pas," Valda

Ford, MPH, MS, RN

Best Practices: Microfinance's

Role in Sustainable Development

Jordan

Kassalow, OD, MPH

"Fonkoze: Providing Financial and Educational Services to Haiti's

Poor" Sharmi

Sobhan and Anne Hastings, PhD

Lessons from India:

Health Outreach and Capacity

Building

"Lok Swasthya

Sewa, a Model Health ative in Ahmedabad,

India."

Chirag

Shah, MD, MPH

de Chollet

Tauro

Clinical and Public Health

Approaches to Eye Care

"From Eye

Charts to Eye Clinics: Building Community Health Infrastructure," Sachin

Jain, MD, MPH Candidate

"A Vision of Possibilities: Merging Clinical and Public Health

Perspectives in Ocular Health," Rohit

Ramchandani, MPH

"Eye Health Among Internally Displaced Persons in Northern Uganda;

Restoring the Lost Hopes,"

, MD Candidate