CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: International Health & Development 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, Dr. Sachs, Dr. Blumenthal, and Dr. Jim Yong Kim

Plus More Than 130 Featured Speakers

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

Register For Conference - EARLY BIRD RATE ($45 Students, $70 All

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

REGISTER BY JULY 15th TO SECURE LOWEST RATE

Who should attend? Anyone interested in international

health,

public health, international development, medicine, eye care,

nonprofits, philanthropy, microfinance,

social entrepreneurship, bioethics, anthropology, health policy,

advocacy, and public service.

*Keynote Addresses*

Blumenthal, MD, MPA, Former U.S.

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

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

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

*130 Featured Speakers (Listed Below Are The Speakers Confirmed Thus

Far)*

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

For Africa

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

Water, Procter & Gamble

R. Rand Allingham, MD, Professor of Ophthalmology;

Director, Glaucoma Service, Duke University Eye Center

Ament, MD, MPh, Clinical Research Fellow,

Ophthalmolology & Corneal Surgery, Massachusetts Eye and Ear

Infirmary, Harvard Medical School; Harvard School of Public Health

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

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

Hospital, Ghana

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

Berman, OD, FAAO, Senior Global Clinical Advisor and

Founder, Special Olympics Lions Clubs, International Opening Eyes

Terry Blaschke, MD, Professor of Medicine and of

Molecular Pharmacology (Active Emeritus), Stanford University School of

Medicine

Neil Boothby, EdD, Professor of Clinical Population and

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

Mailman School of Public Health

Philippe van den Bossche, Executive Director, Raising

Malawi

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

Day, MD, Chair and Program Director, Pediatric

Ophthalmology and Strabismus, California Pacific Medical Center

Syril Dorairaj, MD, Clinical Research Fellow, Glaucoma

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

Margaret Duah-Mensah, Ophthalmic Nurse, Crystal Eye

Clinic, Ghana

Andy Ellner, MD, Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative

Sheri Fink, MD, PhD, Kaiser Media Fellow in Global

Health; Visiting Scientist, Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health

and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health; Senior Fellow,

Harvard Humanitarian Initiative

Hall Forster, MD, Associate Clinical Professor,

Department of Medical Studies, Department of Ophthalmology, Yale School

of Medicine; Chief, Ophthalmology, Yale University Health Services

Friedman, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of

Ophthalmology and International Health, s Hopkins University

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; President-elect, World Heart Federation

Urick Gaillard, JD, Founder and Executive Director, The

Batey Relief Alliance

, MD, Professor of Medicine, Associate Dean

of Medical School Admissions, Stanford University School of Medicine

Nora Groce, PhD, Associate Professor and Director,

Yale/WHO Collaborating Centre, Global Health Division, Yale School of

Public Health

Gyasi, MD, Ophthalmologist and Director of the

Bawku Eye Care Program, Ghana

Heskel M. Haddad, MD, Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology,

New York Medical College

Leon Herndon, MD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology,

Duke University Eye Center

Ibrahim Jabr, Interim President, International Trachoma

Initiative

Rosemary Janiszewski, MS, CHES, Deputy Director, Office

of Communication, Health Education and Public Liaison; Director,

National Eye Health Eucation Program, National Eye Institute (NEI),

National Institutes of Health

Evaleen , MD, Founder, President and Medical

Director, Child Family Health International; Clinical Assistant

Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine

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

Fiona Macaulay, President, Making Cents International

Carolyn Makinson, PhD, Executive Director, Women's

Commission for Refugee Women and Children

Tshepo Mbalambi, BSc, Med Sci, MBcHB Candidate,

University of Ghana School of Medicine

McGoldrick, Senior Vice President, International AIDS

Vaccine Initiative (IAVI)

Melton, MD, MS, Friends of Aravind Association

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

Neal son, MD, Associate Dean, Global Health

Programs, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Novotny, MD, MPH, Director of International

Programs; Professor in Residence, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCSF

School of Medicine

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

Adeyemi Oshodi, PATH

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

Leonard stein, Executive Director, Physicians for

Human Rights

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

, MPH, Filmmaker

Sarwat Salim, MD, Ophthalmologist

Sarang Samal, Kalinga Eye Hospital, Orissa, India

Georgia Sambunaris, MA

Werner Schultink, MD, Chief Child Development and

Nutrition, UNICEF

Chirag Shah, MD, Chief Resident, Wills Eye Hospital

Bruce Shields, MD, Professor of Ophthalmology, Chairman

Emeritus, Department of Ophthalmology, Yale University School of

Medicine

Satyajit Sinha, MBBS, Ophthalmologist, AB Eye Institute,

Patna, India

D. , MD, MSc, DTM & H, Chief of Infectious

Disease and Geographic Medicine, Kaiser Redwood City Hospital

Eliot Sorel, MD, D.L.F.A.P.A. Global Health, Health

Services Management, and Leadership, The Washington University

School of Public Health; Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences School of

Medicine, GWU; Chairman, Founder, Conflict Management Section WPA

Kari Stoever, Senior Program Officer, Neglected Tropical

Diseases, Sabin Vaccine Institute

Glenn Strauss, MD, Vice President of International Health

Care and Programs, Mercy Ships, Int'l

Farris , PhD, Col. Trumbull Professor

of the History of Art, Yale University

Lachman and Tim Cunningham, Clowns Without Borders

C. Tsai, MD, Chair, Department of Ophthalmologist,

Yale University School of Medicine

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

Pennsylvania College of Optometry

Seth Wanye, MD, Ophthalmologist, Eye Clinic of Tamale

Teaching Hospital, Ghana

Gavin Yamey, MD, MRCP, Senior Editor, PLoS Medicine;

Consulting Editor, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases