Call For Abstracts: Global Health and Innovation Summit at Yale

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Please forward widely. Registration (Early Bird Rate) and Abstract Submission Now Open.Global Health & Innovation SummitThe World's Leading Idea Incubator For Global Health InnovationA Conference Presented Annually by Unite For SightYale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USASaturday, April 17 - Sunday, April 18, 2010Registration Now Open (Early Bird Registration Rate):http://www.uniteforsight.org/conferenceCall For Abstracts: Submit an abstract online at http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference The first deadline for abstract submission is August 15, and the final abstract deadline is September 20."A Meeting of Minds," --CNN200 Speakers in April 2010, Including Keynote Addresses by Seth Godin, Sachs and Sachs. Plus social innovation sessions by CEOs and Directors of Acumen Fund, Partners in Health, WaterPartners, Save The Children, HealthStore Foundation, and many others.The Global Health & Innovation Summit convenes more than 2,200 participants from 55 countries. The Summit challenges students, public health professionals, educators, doctors, scientists, lawyers, universities, corporations, nonprofits, and others, to develop innovative, effective solutions to achieve global goals.Keynote Speakers"Using The Power of Stories and Tribes to Spread Your Messages and Change The World," Seth Godin, MBA, Agent of Change; New York Times Bestselling Author of Tribes: We Need You To Lead Us; Founder, Squidoo.com 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 Village ProjectLeaders of Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship SpeakersGene Falk, Co-Founder, Executive Directors, mothers2mothers Hillstrom, Chairman of the Board, CEO and Co-Founder, HealthStore Foundation , Co-Founder, Good Capital Lublin, CEO, Do Something Lumpp, Cofounder, Somaly Mam FoundationJoia Mukherjee, MD, MPH, Medical Director, Partners in Health; Director, Institute for Health and Social Justice; Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School; Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities, Brigham and Women's HospitalAjay Nair, MBBS, MPH, Portfolio Associate, Acumen Fund Shore, JD, Founder and CEO, Share Our Strength Starr, MD, Rainer Arnhold Fellows Program, Mulago Foundation White, Executive Director, WaterPartners Wolk, CEO, Root CausePlus 200 Featured Speakers, including:Ron Adelman, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Yale University Eye CenterJesus Aguais, Executive Director, Aid for AIDSAstier Almedom, DPhil, Professor of Practice in Humanitarian Policy and Global Public HealthAgbessi Amouzou, PhD, Assistant Scientist, Institute for International Programs, s Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public HealthTom Arnold, CEO, Concern WorldwideJane Aronson, MD, Director, International Pediatric Health Services; Founder and Executive Officer, Worldwide Orphans Foundation (WWO); Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Weill Medical College of Cornell UniversityBob Bollinger, MD, MPH, Professor of Infectious Diseases and International Health; Director, Center for Clinical Global Health Education, s Hopkins University 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)Kathleen Casey, MD, FACS, Director, Operation Giving Back, American College of Surgeons e, MD, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Crystal Eye Clinic, GhanaLuz Claudio, MD, Associate Professor of Community and Preventive Medicine, Chief of the Division of International Health, Mount Sinai School of Medicine Cleary, PhD, Dean of Public Health, Chair, Epidemiology and Public Health; M.R. Lauder Professor of Public Health, Yale University School of Public HealthGustavo V. de Moraes, MD, Research Assistant Professor, NYU School of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology, New York Eye and Ear InfirmaryPrabhjot Dhadialla, PhD, Program Director of Health Systems, Development and Research, Columbia Center For Global Health and Economic Development, Community Health Worker Advisor, Millennium Village ProjectZoravar Dhaliwal, CEO, Community LabAmir Dossal, Executive Director, UN Office for PartnershipsMargaret Duah-Mensah, RN, ON, Ophthalmic Nurse, Crystal Eye Clinic, GhanaHarvey Fineberg, MD, PhD, President, Institute of Medicine of The National Academies Forster, MD, Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Medical Studies, Department of Ophthalmology, Yale School of Medicine; Chief, Ophthalmology, Yale University Health Services Frick, PhD, Associate Professor, s Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public HealthPape Gaye, President and CEO, IntraHealth InternationalIlene Gipson, PhD, Senior Scientist, Schepens Eye Research Institute; Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical SchoolAshifi Gogo, Co-founder, Sproxil; Holekamp Family PhD Innovation Fellow, Thayer School of Engineering at DartmouthKate Grant, Executive Director, The Fistula Foundation Herman, Managing Director, Social Impact Advisors P. Howson, PhD, Vice President for Global Programs, The March of Dimes FoundationMarcelo s-, PhD, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Malaria Research Institute, s Hopkins School of Public HealthKaveh Khoshnood, PhD, Assistant Professor in P®Ö.rö²lŽefý¶öTr$Is'Œ¬µ“ù‰„DfÍ DÕ®Ãx::ŒíÑ{ÂF¯6@®°ÛQ€ *q—ëÅiéD3 School of Public HealthNorman Kleiman, PhD, Director, Eye Radiation and Environmental Research Laboratory, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University Lachman, Clowns Without Borders Lawrence, MD, The Center for a Livable Future Professor, Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Health Policy, and International Health; Director, Center for a Livable Future, s Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public HealthTed London, PhD, Senior Research Fellow; Director, Base of the Pyramid Initiative, son Institute at the University of MichiganPamela Lynam, MD, Country Director Kenya, JHPIEGO - s Hopkins University McGoldrick, JD, Senior Vice President, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI)Carole Mitnick, Sc.D., Instructor, Department of Global Health and Social medicine, Harvard Medical SchoolMini Murthy, MD, MPH, MS, MPhil, CHES, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, Global Health Program Director, New York Medical College School of Public HealthRon Nabors, Chief Executive Officer, Christian Blind Mission-USACliff O'Callahan, MD, PhD, FAAP, Pediatric Faculty, Family Practice Group; Director of Nurseries, Middlesex Hospital; Chair, AAP Section on International Child Health Onie, JD, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Project HEALTHSanta Ono, PhD, Sr. Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and Academic Affairs, Emory University Oot, Associate Vice President for Health, Save The ChildrenSung Chul Park, MD, Glaucoma Fellow, New York Medical College, New York Eye and Ear Infirmary , MD, Danbury Eye Physicians and Surgeons , MD, Medical Director, Global Issues and Projects, ExxonMobil Corporationse B. Pierre-Louis, MD, MPH, MH/HSA, Lead HNP Specialist, Human Development; Coordinator, Booster Program For Malaria Control in Africa, World Bank Africa RegionLouis Pizzarello, MD, MPH, Secretary General, International Agency for the Prevention of BlindnessSuzanne Rainey, Forum One Communications s-Kortum, PhD, Stanley C. Professor and Chair of Bioengineering, Rice UniversityMajid Sadigh, MD, Assistant Clinical Professor, Internal Medicine, Yale School of MedicineSarwat Salim, MD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Tennessee-MemphisGeorgia Sambunaris, Senior Advisor to the Director, Office of Economic Growth, US Agency for International Development Spiegel, MD, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Stachel, MD, Bixby Center for Reproductive Health, UC Berkeley School of Public Health E. Tedstrom, PhD, President and CEO, Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GBC) 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 HospitalSeth Wanye, MD, Ophthalmologist, Eye Clinic of Tamale Teaching Hospital, GhanaSheila West, PhD, El-Maghraby Professor of Preventive Ophthalmology, Wilmer Eye Institute, s Hopkins School of Medicine Zakus, BSc, MES, MSc, PhD, Director, Centre for International Health; Associate Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health; Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation; Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada Yach, Vice President of Global Health Policy, PepsiCoRear Adm. Tim Ziemer, U.S. Malaria Coordinator, President's Malaria Initiative