International Health & Development Conference at Yale

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The registration rate increases monthly, and the next registration deadline is November 30th. Please forward widely.Unite For Sight Fifth Annual International Health ConferenceBuilding Global Health For Today and TomorrowApril 12-13, 2008Yale University, New Haven, Connecticuthttp://www.uniteforsight.org/conference/2008Join'>http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference/2008Join 2,000 conference attendees and 150 speakers for a stimulating conference.Keynote Addresses By: Dr. Sachs, Dr. Sachs, Dr. Blumenthal, and Dr. Jim Yong KimPlus More Than 150 Featured SpeakersRegister For Conference - EARLY BIRD RATE ( $65 students, $90 all others) http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference/2008 REGISTER NOW TO SECURE LOWEST RATE. RATE INCREASES AFTER NOVEMBER 30TH.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, environmental health, 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· 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 150+ Speakers. Full List at http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference/2008"Doctors..and Africa", Ted M. Alemayhu, Founder, Chairman and CEO, US Doctors For Africa"Scaling Up Provision of Safe Drinking Water in the Developing World", Greg Allgood, PhD, Director, Children's Safe Drinking Water, Procter & Gamble"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"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"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"Title To Be Announced", Hibah Ayaz, BA Candidate, Union College; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Chennai, India"Refocusing Malnutrition Interventions in Rural Haiti: A Strategic Evolution", Adeline Azrack, Director of Monitoring and Evaluation, Hopital Albert Schweitzer"Title To Be Announced", Baah, MD, MSc, Ophthalmologist, Our Lady of Grace Hospital, Ghana"Title To Be Announced", Abrahim Bagheri, BS Candidate, Loyola mount University; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Chennai, India"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"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"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"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"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"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"Home Visit Project of Blind Babies Foundation and Perspektiva of the Volga Region in Russia", Bernas-Pierce, MEd, Executive Director, Blind Babies Foundation"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"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"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"Raising Malawi", Philippe van den Bossche, Executive Director, Raising Malawi"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)"Cataract Blindness in Developing Countries and SEE International", Harry S. Brown, MD, Founder, Surgical Eye Expeditions (SEE) International"Orphans and Vulnerable Children in the Urban Slums of Africa", , PhD, Professor, s Hopkins University"Tema Eye Survey", Budenz, MD, MPH, Professor of Ophthalmology, Epidemiology, and Public Health, University of Miami School of Medicine"International Nurse Education: Simulation Plays A Part in Global Standards of Practice", Ann , RN, MSN, CPNP, Old Dominion University/Operation Smile International"Title To Be Announced", 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"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"Unite For Sight To The Rescue: An Example Worth Emulating", e, MD, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana"Title To Be Announced", , MPH, MD Candidate, University of Rochester School of Medicine; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Bihar, India"Managing Technology to Advance Eye Care", Ismael Cordero, Advisor, Healthcare Technology, Orbis"Filling the Gap: A Model For Surgical Capacity Building In Rural China", Corlew, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer, Interplast"Title To Be Announced", Day, MD, Chair and Program Director, Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, California Pacific Medical Center"Title To Be Announced", Diamond, BA Candidate, Yale University; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Tamale, Ghana"Exclusive Breastfeeding in Ethiopia: Barriers, Beliefs and Behavioral Outcomes", Dickinson, RN, Yale University School of Nursing"Unite For Sight Visiting Volunteers Participation in Eye Screening Outreach Program, Accra, Ghana", Dolo, ON, RN, Ophthalmic Nurse, Unite For Sight-Ghana"Is That Angle Occludable?", Syril K. Dorairaj, MD, Clinical Research Fellow, Glaucoma Associates of New York, The New York Eye and Ear Infirmary"Title To Be Announced", Margaret Duah-Mensah, RN, ON, Ophthalmic Nurse, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana"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"Childhood obesity prevention in the Western Cape region of South Africa", D. , PhD, Vice President, Research Triangle Institute"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"Glaucoma Scrreinng 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"Title To Be Announced", Friedman, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and International Health, s Hopkins University"Title To Be Announced", Furlow, MD Candidate, University of Kentucky School of Medicine; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Accra, Ghana"Title To Be Announced", 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"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"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"Developing Strategies with Vietnamese Ethnic Rural Communities to Improve Health", Lan Gien, BSc, MEd, PhD, Professor of Nursing, Memorial University of Newfoundland"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"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"Clinical Mentoring Rapidly Improves Clinic Management Systems for HIV Care in Resource-Limited Settings", Graves-Abe, MA, Director of Operations, International Center For Equal Healthcare Access (ICEHA)"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"An Extremely Affordable Device To Enable Treatment of Asthma in Rural Mexico", Green, MD Candidate, Stanford University School of Medicine"Title To Be Announced", Nora Groce, PhD, Associate Professor and Director, Yale/WHO Collaborating Centre, Global Health Division, Yale School of Public Health"Title To Be Announced", Gyasi, MD, Ophthalmologist and Director of the Bawku Eye Care Program, Ghana"Nutritional Management of Cataracts", Heskel M. Haddad, MD, Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology, New York Medical College"Key Components for the Development of an Emergency Healthcare System: The Ethiopian Experience", Tenagne Haile-m, MD, Assistant Professor, The Washington University Medical School"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"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"Infertility in Developing Countries: Scope, Psychosocial Burden and Need for Action", Anke Hemmerling, MD, PhD, MPH, UCSF Women's Global Health Imperative"The Challenges of Glaucoma Care in West Africa", Leon Herndon, MD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Duke University Eye Center"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"Akwaaba! Volunteer Ophthalmology in Breman Asikuma, Ghana", Hudson, MD, JD, MPA, Ophthalmologist, Unite For Sight Volunteer in Breman Asikuma, Ghana"Innovative Market Based Solutions in Global Health", Omer Imtiazuddin, MBA, Health Portfolio Manager, Acumen Fund"Title To Be Announced", Ibrahim Jabr, Interim President, International Trachoma Initiative"Title To Be Announced", Evaleen , MD, Founder, President and Medical Director, Child Family Health International; Clinical Assistant Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine"Addressing Serious Mental Disorders in Complex Humanitarian Emergencies", Lynne , MA, MBChB, MRCPysch PhD"Measuring Impacts", Dean Karlan, PhD, President and Founder of Innovations for Poverty Action; Assistant Professor of Economics, Yale University"Childhood Blindness And Its Prevention", Kartee Karloweah, ON, RN, Ophthalmic Nurse, Unite For Sight-Ghana"Atrocities and Social Entrepreneurship", Zachary Kaufman, MPhil in International Relations; DPhil Candidate in International Relations, University of Oxford; JD Candidate, Yale University Law School"Health Diplomacy", Kaveh Khoshnood, PhD, Assistant Professor in Public Health Practice, Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health"Title To Be Announced", King, MA, Elementary School Teacher, Intermediate School; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Accra, Ghana"Corporate/Professional initiatives: Co-operation to Address Unmet Medical Needs", Doug Lawrence, Vice President/General Manager, BD Medical - Ophthalmic Systems"Title To Be Announced", Lich, BA Candidate, Southern Methodist University; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Accra, Ghana"Title To Be Announced", Lin, BS, Unite For Sight Volunteer in Chennai, India"Residency Based Fellowships in Global and Underserved Health - Who Are the Stakeholders?", Loeliger, MD, MS, Faculty Physician, Contra Costa Regional Medical Center"Increasing Access to and Use of Skilled Maternal and Newborn Care in Dumka District of India", t MacDowell, MA, Senior Program Manager, JHPIEGO"Increasing Income, Confidence and Business Growth for Low-Income Women", Fiona Macaulay, President, Making Cents International"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"Utilization of PDA's by Community Health Workers for Field Collection of Malaria Statistics in Rural Haiti", Nick Mann, BA Candidate, Truman State University"Addressing Vitamin and Mineral Deficiencies is a Key Building Block to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals", M.G. Venkatesh Mannar, President, The Micronutrient Initiative"Civil Society: Mobilizing Community Health Workers for Malaria Control", Anne -Staple, PhD, Research Scholar, Duke University"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"Medical Education in Ghana", Tshepo Mbalambi, BSc, Med Sci, MBcHB Candidate, University of Ghana 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)"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; PhD Candidate, Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University; IGERT-International Development and Globalization Fellow"Title To Be Announced", Melton, MD, MS, Friends of Aravind Association"Public Health Strategies for Effective Medical Missions Overseas", Mladenovich, OD, FAAO, MPH Candidate, Fellow, World Council of Optometry; External Examiner, International Rescue Committee, Thailand"A Sustainable Approach to Nutrition for People Living with HIV/AIDS in Rwanda", Morell, BA Candidate, Yale University"Title To Be Announced", Anne Firth Murray, Founding President, The Global Fund for Women; Consulting Professor, Human Biology Program, Stanford University"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"Title To Be Announced", 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"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 Non-Traditional Approach to Global Health Training: The Penn Program", Neal son, MD, Associate Dean, Global Health Programs, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine"Expanding HIV and AIDS counseling skills in Africa: Cascade approach", Mike Negerie, DrPH, MPH, Regional Technical Manager for Health, Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) Africa Regional Office, South Africa"Philosophies of Care - Transforming Communities through Transformation", Cliff OCallahan, MD, PhD, Pediatric Faculty, Middlesex Hospital Family Practice Program; Chair, AAP Section on International Child 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"Title To Be Announced", Hafeezah , BA Candidate, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Accra, Ghana"Using National and International Advocacy and Media to Advance Social Change in HIV-Prevention", Adeyemi Oshodi, PATH"International Educational Exchanges: Challenges and Opportunities", Barbara Allerton and Otterness, RN, MSN, Assistant Professor, Department of Nursing, Boise State University"Title To Be Announced", Elijah Paintsil, MD, Associate Research Scientist, Department of Pediatrics, Yale School of Medicine"Developing an Institutional Review Board For International Non-Governmental Organizations in International Healthcare", Ellen Palmer, RN, PhD, Assistant Clinical Professor, University of Texas at Arlington School of Nursing"Title To Be Announced", , MD, Danbury Eye Physicians and Surgeons"The Healing of Retinal Photocoagulation Lesions", Yannis us, MD Candidate, Stanford University School of Medicine"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"Update on IAPB and VISION 2020: the Right to Sight", Louis Pizzarello, MD, MPH, Secretary General, International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness"Blind Leading The Blind", e Polycarpe, MPH, Director for Health, Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA)"Title To Be Announced", Chiwing Qu, BA Candidate, Yale University; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Chennai, India"Trachoma Control; Challenges for 2020", Quinn, MD, Director, s Hopkins Center for Global Health"Title To Be Announced", Radcliffe, MD, Glaucoma Service at New York Eye & Ear Infirmary"Ethical Dilemmas in International Medicine: Cases from the Honduran Health Alliance", Bonzo Reddick, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill"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"Surgical Care in Angola: Perspectives From Two Hospitals", Riviello, MD, MPH, Associate Surgeon, Instructor in Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital"The Global Marketization of Health Services: Promoting Inequity, Inequality and Exclusion", Ellen Rosskam, PhD, MPH, Public Health & Social Protection Specialist; Visiting Professor, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Work Environment Department; Visiting Senior Fellow, University of Surrey, European Institute of Health and Medical Sciences, England"Advancing Educational Opportunities for Children who are Blind with Additional Impairments", Rothstein, President, Perkins School for the Blind"Title To Be Announced", Ilya Rozenbuam, MD, GANY Glaucoma Fellow, New York Eye and Ear Institute"Civil Society Advocacy For The Right To Health", Leonard stein, Executive Director, Physicians for Human Rights"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"Title To Be Announced", 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"Obstetric and Traumatic Fistula: Film-based Campaigning for Global Women's Health", , MPH, Filmmaker"Delivering on the MDGs: Equity and Maternal Health", Emma Sachs, Health Equity Team, Earth Institute, Columbia University"Title To Be Announced", Majid Sadigh"Title To Be Announced", Sarwat Salim, MD, Ophthalmologist"Low cost Comprehensive Eye care models and Its replicability", Sarang Samal, Kalinga Eye Hospital, Orissa, India"Innovative Approaches to Public Private Partnerships in Kenya's Health and Youth Sectors", Georgia Sambunaris, MA, Senior Financial Markets Specialist, USAID"Title To Be Announced", Shakira -, BA Candidate, Yale University; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Tamale, Ghana"Bridging the gap between knowing the right thing to do and doing it right", Harshad Sanghvi, MD, Medical Director, JHPIEGO, s Hopkins University"Title To Be Announced", Werner Schultink, MD, Chief Child Development and Nutrition, UNICEF"Self Sustainability - The Mantra For Manging Avoidable Blindness", V. Panneer Selvam, MS, DO, MPhil, Arasan Eye Hospital, India"Title To Be Announced", Rosh and Roshan Sethi, BS Candidate, Yale University; Unite For Sight Volunteers in New Delhi, India"Lok Swasthya Sewa, a Model Health ative in Ahmedabad, India", Chirag Shah, MD, Chief Resident, Wills Eye Hospital"Title To Be Announced", Kuldev Singh, MD, Professor of Ophthalmology, Stanford University"Title To Be Announced", Pooja Sinha, MBBS, Ophthalmologist, AB Eye Institute, Patna, India"Title To Be Announced", Satyajit Sinha, MBBS, Ophthalmologist, AB Eye Institute, Patna, India"Title To Be Announced", D. , MD, MSc, DTM & H, Chief of Infectious Disease and Geographic Medicine, Kaiser Redwood City Hospital"Promoting HIV/AIDS Education Despite Social and Cultural Barriers", Piya Sorcar, MA, PhD Candidate, Stanford 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"Empowering Communities in the Fight to Eliminate Neglected Tropical Diseases", Kari Stoever, Director, Neglected Tropical Diseases, Sabin Vaccine Institute"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"Kongo: The Ultimate Black Civilization", Farris , PhD, Col. Trumbull Professor of the History of Art, Yale University"Title To Be Announced", Lachman and Tim Cunningham, Clowns Without Borders"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"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"Title To Be Announced", Vekhter, BA Candidate, Yale University; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Asikuma Breman, Ghana"Maximizing Limited Resources to Provide Outreach Eye Care", Satya Verma, OD, FAAO, Director, Community Eye Care, Pennsylvania College of Optometry"Collaborating to create the future of family medicine: a Japanese-American exchange", Vines, MD, MPH, Oregon Health and Science University"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"Title To Be Announced", Seth Wanye, MD, Ophthalmologist, Eye Clinic of Tamale Teaching Hospital, Ghana"Turning Challenges Into Opportunities: The State of Cervical Cancer Prevention in America 2008", Wells, MA, Associate Director, Women in Government"Protecting Border Security and Health: Effective Strategies for Monitoring and Treating Malaria among Burma's IDPs", Whichard, Program Director, Global Health Access Program"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"Shoulder to Shoulder Ecuador: A University-Community Partnership for Health", Hopenhayn and Young, MD, Department of Pediatrics, University of Kentucky; Shoulder to Shoulder

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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 150 speakers for a

stimulating conference.

Keynote Addresses By: Dr.

Sachs, Dr. Sachs, Dr. Blumenthal, and Dr. Jim Yong Kim

Plus More Than 150 Featured Speakers

Register For

Conference - EARLY BIRD RATE ( $65 students, $90 all

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

REGISTER NOW TO SECURE LOWEST RATE. RATE INCREASES AFTER NOVEMBER 30TH.

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,

environmental health, 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

· 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

150+ Speakers. Full List at http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference/2008

" Doctors..and

Africa " , Ted

M. Alemayhu, Founder, Chairman and CEO, US

Doctors For Africa

" Scaling Up Provision of Safe

Drinking Water in the Developing World " , Greg

Allgood, PhD, Director, Children's Safe

Drinking Water, Procter & Gamble

" 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

" 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

" 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

" Title To Be Announced " ,

Hibah Ayaz, BA Candidate, Union College;

Unite For Sight Volunteer in Chennai,

India

" Refocusing Malnutrition

Interventions in Rural Haiti:

A Strategic Evolution " , Adeline

Azrack, Director of Monitoring and

Evaluation, Hopital Albert Schweitzer

" Title To Be Announced " ,

Baah, MD, MSc, Ophthalmologist, Our Lady of

Grace Hospital, Ghana

" Title To Be Announced " ,

Abrahim Bagheri, BS Candidate, Loyola mount

University; Unite For Sight Volunteer

in Chennai, India

" 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

" 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

" 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

" 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

" 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

" 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

" Home Visit Project of Blind

Babies Foundation and Perspektiva of the Volga Region in Russia " ,

Bernas-Pierce, MEd, Executive

Director, Blind Babies Foundation

" 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

" 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

" 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

" Raising Malawi " , Philippe

van den Bossche, Executive Director,

Raising Malawi

" 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)

" Cataract Blindness in Developing

Countries and SEE International " , Harry

S. Brown, MD, Founder, Surgical Eye

Expeditions (SEE) International

" Orphans and Vulnerable Children

in the Urban Slums of Africa " , , PhD, Professor, s Hopkins

University

" Tema Eye Survey " ,

Budenz, MD, MPH, Professor of

Ophthalmology, Epidemiology, and Public Health, University of Miami

School of Medicine

" International Nurse Education:

Simulation Plays A Part in Global Standards of Practice " ,

Ann , RN, MSN, CPNP, Old Dominion

University/Operation Smile International

" Title To Be Announced " ,

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

" 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

" Unite For Sight To The Rescue: An

Example Worth Emulating " ,

e, MD, Ophthalmologist and Medical

Director, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana

" Title To Be Announced " ,

, MPH, MD Candidate, University of Rochester

School of Medicine;

Unite For Sight Volunteer in Bihar,

India

" Managing Technology to Advance

Eye Care " , Ismael

Cordero, Advisor, Healthcare Technology,

Orbis

" Filling the Gap: A Model For

Surgical Capacity Building In Rural China " ,

Corlew, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer,

Interplast

" Title To Be Announced " ,

Day, MD, Chair and Program Director,

Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, California Pacific

Medical Center

" Title To Be Announced " ,

Diamond, BA Candidate, Yale University;

Unite For Sight Volunteer in Tamale,

Ghana

" Exclusive Breastfeeding in Ethiopia: Barriers, Beliefs and Behavioral

Outcomes " ,

Dickinson, RN, Yale University School of

Nursing

" Unite For Sight Visiting

Volunteers Participation in Eye Screening Outreach Program, Accra, Ghana " ,

Dolo, ON, RN, Ophthalmic Nurse, Unite For

Sight-Ghana

" Is That Angle Occludable? " ,

Syril

K. Dorairaj, MD, Clinical Research Fellow,

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

" Title To Be Announced " ,

Margaret

Duah-Mensah, RN, ON, Ophthalmic Nurse,

Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana

" 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

" Childhood obesity prevention in

the Western Cape region of South Africa " ,

D. , PhD, Vice President, Research

Triangle Institute

" 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

" Glaucoma Scrreinng 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

" Title To Be Announced " ,

Friedman, MD, MPH, Associate

Professor of Ophthalmology and International Health, s Hopkins

University

" Title To Be Announced " ,

Furlow, MD Candidate, University of Kentucky

School of Medicine;

Unite For Sight Volunteer in Accra,

Ghana

" Title To Be Announced " ,

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

" 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

" 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

" Developing Strategies with

Vietnamese Ethnic Rural Communities to Improve Health " ,

Lan Gien, BSc, MEd, PhD, Professor of

Nursing, Memorial University of Newfoundland

" 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

" 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

" Clinical Mentoring Rapidly

Improves Clinic Management Systems for HIV Care in Resource-Limited

Settings " , Graves-Abe, MA, Director of Operations, International Center

For Equal Healthcare Access (ICEHA)

" 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

" An Extremely Affordable Device To

Enable Treatment of Asthma in Rural Mexico " ,

Green, MD Candidate, Stanford University

School of Medicine

" Title To Be Announced " ,

Nora Groce, PhD, Associate Professor and

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

Public Health

" Title To Be Announced " ,

Gyasi, MD, Ophthalmologist and Director of

the Bawku Eye Care Program, Ghana

" Nutritional Management of

Cataracts " , Heskel M. Haddad, MD, Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology, New York Medical College

" Key Components for the

Development of an Emergency Healthcare System: The Ethiopian Experience " ,

Tenagne Haile-m, MD, Assistant

Professor, The

Washington University

Medical School

" 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

" 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

" Infertility in Developing

Countries: Scope, Psychosocial Burden and Need for Action " ,

Anke

Hemmerling, MD, PhD, MPH, UCSF Women's

Global Health Imperative

" The Challenges of Glaucoma Care

in West Africa " , Leon

Herndon, MD, Associate Professor of

Ophthalmology, Duke University Eye Center

" 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

" Akwaaba! Volunteer Ophthalmology

in Breman Asikuma, Ghana " ,

Hudson, MD, JD, MPA, Ophthalmologist, Unite

For Sight Volunteer in Breman Asikuma, Ghana

" Innovative Market Based Solutions

in Global Health " , Omer

Imtiazuddin, MBA, Health Portfolio Manager,

Acumen Fund

" Title To Be Announced " ,

Ibrahim Jabr, Interim President,

International Trachoma Initiative

" Title To Be Announced " ,

Evaleen , MD, Founder, President and

Medical Director, Child Family Health International; Clinical Assistant

Professor, Stanford

University School

of Medicine

" Addressing Serious Mental

Disorders in Complex Humanitarian Emergencies " , Lynne

, MA, MBChB, MRCPysch PhD

" Measuring Impacts " ,

Dean

Karlan, PhD, President and Founder of

Innovations for Poverty Action; Assistant Professor of Economics, Yale

University

" Childhood Blindness And Its

Prevention " , Kartee

Karloweah, ON, RN, Ophthalmic Nurse, Unite

For Sight-Ghana

" Atrocities and Social

Entrepreneurship " , Zachary

Kaufman, MPhil in International Relations;

DPhil Candidate in International Relations, University of Oxford; JD Candidate,

Yale University Law School

" Health Diplomacy " ,

Kaveh

Khoshnood, PhD, Assistant Professor in

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

School of Public Health

" Title To Be Announced " ,

King, MA, Elementary School

Teacher, Intermediate

School; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Accra, Ghana

" Corporate/Professional

initiatives: Co-operation to Address Unmet Medical Needs " ,

Doug

Lawrence, Vice President/General Manager,

BD Medical - Ophthalmic Systems

" Title To Be Announced " ,

Lich, BA Candidate, Southern Methodist University;

Unite For Sight Volunteer in Accra,

Ghana

" Title To Be Announced " ,

Lin, BS, Unite For Sight Volunteer in

Chennai, India

" Residency Based Fellowships in

Global and Underserved Health - Who Are the Stakeholders? " ,

Loeliger, MD, MS, Faculty Physician, Contra

Costa Regional Medical Center

" Increasing Access to and Use of

Skilled Maternal and Newborn Care in Dumka District of India " ,

t MacDowell, MA, Senior Program

Manager, JHPIEGO

" Increasing Income, Confidence and

Business Growth for Low-Income Women " , Fiona

Macaulay, President, Making Cents

International

" 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

" Utilization of PDA's by Community

Health Workers for Field Collection of Malaria Statistics in Rural Haiti " , Nick

Mann, BA Candidate, Truman State University

" Addressing Vitamin and Mineral

Deficiencies is a Key Building Block to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals " ,

M.G. Venkatesh Mannar, President, The

Micronutrient Initiative

" Civil Society: Mobilizing

Community Health Workers for Malaria Control " , Anne

-Staple, PhD, Research Scholar, Duke

University

" 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

" Medical Education in Ghana " , Tshepo Mbalambi, BSc, Med Sci, MBcHB Candidate, University of Ghana 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)

" 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; PhD Candidate, Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University; IGERT-International

Development and Globalization Fellow

" Title To Be Announced " ,

Melton, MD, MS, Friends of

Aravind Association

" Public Health Strategies for

Effective Medical Missions Overseas " ,

Mladenovich, OD, FAAO, MPH Candidate,

Fellow, World Council of Optometry; External Examiner, International Rescue

Committee, Thailand

" A Sustainable Approach to

Nutrition for People Living with HIV/AIDS in Rwanda " ,

Morell, BA Candidate, Yale University

" Title To Be Announced " ,

Anne Firth Murray, Founding President, The Global Fund for Women;

Consulting Professor, Human Biology Program, Stanford University

" 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

" Title To Be Announced " ,

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

" 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 Non-Traditional Approach to

Global Health Training: The Penn Program " , Neal

son, MD, Associate Dean, Global

Health Programs, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

" Expanding HIV and AIDS counseling

skills in Africa: Cascade approach " , Mike

Negerie, DrPH, MPH, Regional Technical

Manager for Health, Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) Africa

Regional Office, South Africa

" Philosophies of Care -

Transforming Communities through Transformation " , Cliff

OCallahan, MD, PhD, Pediatric Faculty,

Middlesex Hospital Family Practice Program; Chair, AAP Section on International

Child 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

" Title To Be Announced " ,

Hafeezah , BA Candidate, University of North Carolina

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

" Using National and International

Advocacy and Media to Advance Social Change in HIV-Prevention " ,

Adeyemi

Oshodi, PATH

" International Educational

Exchanges: Challenges and Opportunities " , Barbara

Allerton and Otterness, RN, MSN, Assistant Professor, Department of Nursing, Boise State

University

" Title To Be Announced " ,

Elijah Paintsil, MD, Associate Research

Scientist, Department of Pediatrics, Yale

School of Medicine

" Developing an Institutional

Review Board For International Non-Governmental Organizations in International

Healthcare " , Ellen Palmer, RN, PhD, Assistant Clinical Professor, University of Texas

at Arlington School of Nursing

" Title To Be Announced " ,

, MD, Danbury Eye Physicians and Surgeons

" The Healing of Retinal

Photocoagulation Lesions " , Yannis

us, MD Candidate, Stanford University

School of Medicine

" 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

" Update on IAPB and VISION 2020:

the Right to Sight " , Louis

Pizzarello, MD, MPH, Secretary General,

International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness

" Blind Leading The Blind " ,

e Polycarpe, MPH, Director for

Health, Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA)

" Title To Be Announced " ,

Chiwing Qu, BA Candidate, Yale University;

Unite For Sight Volunteer in Chennai,

India

" Trachoma Control; Challenges for

2020 " ,

Quinn, MD, Director, s Hopkins Center

for Global Health

" Title To Be Announced " ,

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

Infirmary

" Ethical Dilemmas in International

Medicine: Cases from the Honduran Health Alliance " ,

Bonzo

Reddick, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor,

University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

" 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

" Surgical Care in Angola:

Perspectives From Two Hospitals " ,

Riviello, MD, MPH, Associate Surgeon,

Instructor in Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital

" The Global Marketization of

Health Services: Promoting Inequity, Inequality and Exclusion " ,

Ellen

Rosskam, PhD, MPH, Public Health &

Social Protection Specialist; Visiting Professor, University of Massachusetts,

Lowell, Work Environment Department; Visiting Senior Fellow, University of

Surrey, European Institute of Health and Medical Sciences, England

" Advancing Educational

Opportunities for Children who are Blind with Additional Impairments " ,

Rothstein, President, Perkins School for

the Blind

" Title To Be Announced " ,

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

Institute

" Civil Society Advocacy For The

Right To Health " , Leonard

stein, Executive Director, Physicians

for Human Rights

" 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

" Title To Be Announced " ,

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

" Obstetric and Traumatic Fistula:

Film-based Campaigning for Global Women's Health " ,

, MPH, Filmmaker

" Delivering on the MDGs: Equity

and Maternal Health " , Emma Sachs, Health Equity Team, Earth Institute, Columbia University

" Title To Be Announced " ,

Majid Sadigh

" Title To Be Announced " ,

Sarwat Salim, MD, Ophthalmologist

" Low cost Comprehensive Eye care

models and Its replicability " , Sarang

Samal, Kalinga Eye Hospital, Orissa, India

" Innovative Approaches to Public

Private Partnerships in Kenya's

Health and Youth Sectors " , Georgia

Sambunaris, MA, Senior Financial Markets

Specialist, USAID

" Title To Be Announced " ,

Shakira -, BA Candidate, Yale University;

Unite For Sight Volunteer in Tamale,

Ghana

" Bridging the gap between knowing

the right thing to do and doing it right " , Harshad

Sanghvi, MD, Medical Director, JHPIEGO,

s Hopkins University

" Title To Be Announced " ,

Werner Schultink, MD, Chief Child

Development and Nutrition, UNICEF

" Self Sustainability - The Mantra

For Manging Avoidable Blindness " , V.

Panneer Selvam, MS, DO, MPhil, Arasan Eye

Hospital, India

" Title To Be Announced " ,

Rosh and Roshan Sethi, BS Candidate, Yale University;

Unite For Sight Volunteers in New

Delhi, India

" Lok Swasthya Sewa, a Model Health

ative in Ahmedabad, India " , Chirag

Shah, MD, Chief Resident, Wills Eye

Hospital

" Title To Be Announced " ,

Kuldev Singh,

MD, Professor of Ophthalmology, Stanford University

" Title To Be Announced " ,

Pooja Sinha, MBBS, Ophthalmologist, AB Eye

Institute, Patna, India

" Title To Be Announced " ,

Satyajit

Sinha, MBBS, Ophthalmologist, AB Eye

Institute, Patna, India

" Title To Be Announced " ,

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

of Infectious Disease and Geographic Medicine, Kaiser Redwood City

Hospital

" Promoting HIV/AIDS Education

Despite Social and Cultural Barriers " , Piya

Sorcar, MA, PhD Candidate, Stanford

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

" Empowering Communities in the

Fight to Eliminate Neglected Tropical Diseases " , Kari

Stoever, Director, Neglected Tropical

Diseases, Sabin Vaccine Institute

" 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

" Kongo: The Ultimate Black

Civilization " , Farris , PhD, Col. Trumbull Professor of the History of

Art, Yale University

" Title To Be Announced " ,

Lachman and Tim Cunningham, Clowns

Without Borders

" 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

" 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

" Title To Be Announced " ,

Vekhter, BA Candidate, Yale University;

Unite For Sight Volunteer in Asikuma

Breman, Ghana

" Maximizing Limited Resources to

Provide Outreach Eye Care " , Satya

Verma, OD, FAAO, Director, Community Eye

Care, Pennsylvania College of Optometry

" Collaborating to create the

future of family medicine: a Japanese-American exchange " ,

Vines, MD, MPH, Oregon Health and Science

University

" 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

" Title To Be Announced " ,

Seth

Wanye, MD, Ophthalmologist, Eye Clinic of

Tamale Teaching Hospital, Ghana

" Turning Challenges Into

Opportunities: The State of Cervical Cancer Prevention in America 2008 " ,

Wells, MA, Associate Director, Women in

Government

" Protecting Border Security and

Health: Effective Strategies for Monitoring and Treating Malaria among Burma's

IDPs " , Whichard, Program Director, Global Health Access Program

" 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

" Shoulder to Shoulder Ecuador: A University-Community Partnership

for Health " , Hopenhayn and Young, MD, Department of Pediatrics, University of Kentucky;

Shoulder to Shoulder