CALL FOR ABSTRACTS - International Health Conference at Yale

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Unite For Sight Fifth Annual International

Health Conference

Building Global Health For Today and Tomorrow

April 12-13, 2008

Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference/2008

Join 2,000 conference attendees and 130 speakers

for a stimulating conference.

Keynote Addresses By Dr. Sachs

and Dr. Sachs

And More Than 130

Featured Speakers

Call For Abstracts - DEADLINE JULY 15, 2007 - http://uniteforsight.org/conference/2008/abstracts.php

Register For Conference - EARLY BIRD RATE ($35 Students, $60 All

Others) Increases After June 15th - http://uniteforsight.org/conference/2008/registration.php

REGISTER BY JUNE 15TH TO SECURE LOWEST RATE

Who should attend? Anyone interested in international health,

public health, international development, medicine, social

entrepreneurship, eye care, nonprofits, philanthropy, microfinance,

bioethics, anthropology, health policy, advocacy, and public service.

*Keynote Addresses*

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

Sachs, MD, MPH, Health Coordinator, Millennium

Villages

*Featured Speakers (Confirmed Thus Far)*

Greg Allgood, PhD, Director, Children's Safe Drinking Water,

Procter & Gamble

Michele Barry, MD, FACP, Professor of Medicine and Global Health

Director, Office of International Health; Chief, General Medicine Firm,

Yale University School of Medicine

s , MD, Executive Director, American Public Health

Association

Blumenthal, MD, MPA, Former US Assistant Surgeon General,

Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at town School of Medicine and

Tufts University Medical Center

Neil Boothby, EdD, Professor of Clinical Population and Family

Health; Director, Program on Forced Migration and Health, Mailman

School of Public Health

Harry S. Brown, MD, Founder, Surgical Eye Expeditions (SEE)

International

Budenz, MD, MPH, Professor of Ophthalmology,

Epidemiology, and Public Health, University of Miami School of

Medicine

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

and Mark Carlson, PhD, Adjunct Professor, Sociology,

San Diego State University

e, MD, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Crystal

Eye Clinic, Ghana

Margaret Duah-Mensah, Ophthalmic Nurse, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana

Hall Forster, MD, Associate Clinical Professor, Department

of Medical Studies, Department of Ophthalmology, Yale School of

Medicine; Chief, Ophthalmology, Yale University Health Services

Gyasi, MD, Ophthalmologist and Director of the Bawku Eye

Care Program, Ghana

Leon Herndon, MD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Duke

University Eye Center

Ibrahim Jabr, Interim President, International Trachoma

Initiative

Dean Karlan, PhD, President and Founder of Innovations for

Poverty Action; Assistant Professor of Economics, Yale University

Zachary Kaufman, MPhil in International Relations; DPhil

Candidate in International Relations, University of Oxford; JD

Candidate, Yale University Law School

Kaveh Khoshnood, PhD, Assistant Professor in Public Health

Practice, Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School

of Public Health

Doug Lawrence, Vice President/General Manager, BD Medical -

Ophthalmic Systems

Tshepo Mbalambi, BSc, Med Sci, MBcHB Candidate, University of

Ghana School of Medicine

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

O'Neil Jr, MD, Founder, Omni Med; Author, Awakening

Hippocrates: Primer on Health, Poverty, and Global Service, and A

Practical Guide to Global Health Service

Cliff OCallahan, MD, PhD, Pediatric Faculty, Middlesex Hospital

Family Practice Program; Chair, AAP Section on International Child

Health

Elijah Paintsil, MD, Associate Research Scientist, Department of

Pediatrics, Yale School of Medicine

, MD, Danbury Eye Physicians and Surgeons

C. , MD, MPH, Medical Director, Global Issues and

Projects, Exxon Mobil Corporation

Louis Pizzarello, MD, MPH, Secretary General, International

Agency for the Prevention of Blindness

Quinn, MD, Director, s Hopkins Center for Global

Health

Radcliffe, MD, Glaucoma Service at New York Eye & Ear

Infirmary

Ian Rawson, MD, CEO/Directeur General, Hopital Albert Schweitzer

Haiti

Reese, President and CEO, International Youth Foundation

Ilya Rozenbuam, MD, GANY Glaucoma Fellow, New York Eye and Ear

Institute

, MPH, Filmmaker

Sarwat Salim, MD, Ophthalmologist

Werner Schultink, MD, Chief Child Development and Nutrition,

UNICEF

Bruce Shields, MD, Professor of Ophthalmology, Chairman

Emeritus, Department of Ophthalmology, Yale University School of

Medicine

Singer, MD, Professor of Clinical Medicine; Chief,

Clinical Endocrinology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern

California

Kari Stoever, Senior Program Officer, Neglected Tropical

Diseases, Sabin Vaccine Institute

Farris , PhD, Col. Trumbull Professor of the

History of Art, Yale University

Lachman and Tim Cunningham, Clowns Without Borders

Satya Verma, OD, FAAO, Director, Community Eye Care,

Pennsylvania College of Optometry

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

Hospital, Ghana