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Please forward widely. First abstract deadline is August 15.Unite For Sight 6th Annual Global Health & Development Conference"Achieving Global Goals Through Innovation"http://www.uniteforsight.org/conferenceWhen: April 18-19, 2009Where: Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USAWhat: Join 2,500 conference participants for a stimulating international conferenceAs Featured On CNN: The Unite For Sight Conference Is What CNN Calls "A Meeting Of Minds"NOW OPEN: Registration and Abstract Submission http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference (First abstract deadline is August 15 (oral presentation deadline and early bird poster presentation deadline)200 Speakers, Including Keynote Addresses by Dr. Sachs and Dr. SachsRegister For Conference: REGISTER BY JULY 31 TO SECURE LOWEST RATE. Rate escalates each month.Who is eligible to submit an abstract? Anyone may submit an abstract. Abstract submitters range from students to professionals.Who should attend? Anyone interested in international health, public health, international development, medicine, nonprofits, eye care, philanthropy, microfinance, social entrepreneurship, bioethics, economics, anthropology, health policy, advocacy, environmental health, service-learning, medical education, 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 Villages200 Featured Speakers (Listed Below Are The Speakers Confirmed Thus Far)Sam Abbenyi, MD, MSc, Director, Programs and Logistics, International Trachoma InitiativeJane Aronson, MD, Director, International Pediatric Health Services; Founder and Executive Executive Officer, 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 Baraniuk, PhD, Founder, Connexions; Victor E. Cameron Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University Berman, OD, FAAO, Senior Global Clinical Advisor and Founder, Special Olympics Lions Clubs, International Opening Eyes Bloom, Chair, Department of Global Health and Population; Clarence Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health 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) Braswell, MD, MS, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Alabama-BirminghamHarry Brown, MD, Founder, Surgical Eye Expeditions (SEE) International Bucala, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine, Pathology, and Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine e, MD, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Crystal Eye Clinic, GhanaEmmanuel d'Harcourt, Senior Child Survival Technical Advisor, International Rescue CommitteeMargaret Duah-Mensah, RN, ON, Ophthalmic Nurse, Crystal Eye Clinic, GhanaDabney , MPH, Executive Director, Emory University Institute of Human Rights; Lecturer, Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University Forster, MD, Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Medical Studies, Department of Ophthalmology, Yale School of Medicine; Chief, Ophthalmology, Yale University Health ServicesStanley O. , MD, MPH, Professor, Hubert Department of Global Health Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University Fraser, MA, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Dignitas InternationalUlrick Gaillard, JD, CEO, The Batey Relief AllianceGannon Gillespie, Director of US Operations, Tostan , MD, President and CEO, Interplast Hillstrom, Chairman of the Board, CEO and Co-Founder, HealthStore Foundation Ho, MD, Lui Hac Minh Professor of Surgery; Director, Asian Liver Center; Director, Liver Cancer Program, Stanford University School of MedicineDebbie Humphries, MPH, PhD, Clinical Instructor, Division of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Social and Behavioral Sciences Program, Yale University School of MedicineMarcelo s-, PhD, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Malaria Research Institute, s Hopkins School of Public HealthKaveh Khoshnood, PhD, Assistant Professor in Public Health Practice, Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health King, MA, Elementary School Teacher, Intermediate School; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Accra, Ghana Murray-Kolb, PhD, Assistant Professor, Center for Human Nutrition, Department of International Health, The s Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health Lachman, Clowns Without BordersDoug Lawrence, Vice President/General Manager, BD Medical - Ophthalmic Systems Lawrence, MD, Center for A Livable future Professor; Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Health Policy & International Health; Director, Center for a Livable Future, Department of Environmental Health Sciences; s Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Malkin, PhD, Professor of Practice of Biomedical Engineering Director, Duke-Engineering World Health, Duke University MacCormack, PhD, President and CEO, Save The Children McGoldrick, JD, Senior Vice President, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) McMurry, Director, Health, Biomedical Science and Society Initiative, The Aspen Institute Mason Meier, JD, LLM, MPhil, Public Health Law Project Manager, Center for Health Policy, IGERT-International Development and Globalization Fellow, Columbia UniversityCarol McLaughlin, MD, MPH, Global Health, Center for High Impact Philanthropy, School of Social Policy and Practice, University of PennsylvaniaMini Murthy, MD, MPH, MS, Assistant Professor, Department of Behavioral Science and Community Health, Program Director Global Health, New York Medical College School of Public HealthNeal son, MD, Associate Dean, Global Health Programs, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine O'Neil, Jr, MD, Omni MedSanta Ono, PhD, Vice Provost for Academic Initiatives and Deputy Provost of Emory University; Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Emory Eye CenterRobin Paetzold, MBA, Director, Global Programs, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine C. , MD, MPH, Medical Director, Global Issues and Projects, Exxon Mobil CorporationSuzanne Rainey, Forum One Communications Reef, MD, CDC Rothstein, President, Perkins School For The Blind , MPH, FilmmakerJinan Saaddine, MD, MPH, Medical Epidemiologist, Vision Health Initiative Team Leader, Division of Diabetes Translation, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 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 ProjectSarwat Salim, MD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Tennessee-MemphisSarang Samal, Kalinga Eye Hospital, Orissa, IndiaShlomit Sandler, MD, New York Eye and Ear InfirmaryHarshad Sanghvi, MD, Medical Director, JHPIEGO, s Hopkins University Schiffer, President and Founder, Vitamin Angels D. Sedmak, MD, Director, Office of Global Health Education; Executive Vice Dean, College of Medicine; Executive Director, Center for Personalized Health care; Senior Associate Vice President, Office of Health Sciences, The Ohio State UniversityBruce Shields, MD, Chair Emeritus, Yale Department of OphthalmologyKuldev Singh, MD, MPH, Professor of Ophthalmology, Stanford University School of MedicineAjit Sinha, MBBS, Founder and Director, AB Eye Institute; Former President, All India Ophthalmological SocietyPooja Sinha, MBBS, Ophthalmologist, AB Eye Institute, Patna, IndiaSatyajit Sinha, MBBS, Ophthalmologist, AB Eye Institute, Patna, IndiaD. , MD, MSc, DTM & H, Chief of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Kaiser Redwood City HospitalJanice K. , MD, MPH, PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center for Training in International Health at UTMBGeorgia Sambunaris, MA, Senior Financial Markets Specialist, USAIDStout, PsyD, Founding Director, Center for Global Initiatives; Clinical Professor, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago 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 HospitalPhilippe Van Denbossche, Executive Director, Raising MalawiHarold Varmus, MD, President and Chief Executive, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; Former Director of the NIH; Nobel Prize RecipientSeth Wanye, MD, Ophthalmologist, Eye Clinic of Tamale Teaching Hospital, Ghana Whitehead, PhD, Research Associate Professor, University of Missouri - Kansas City Zakus, BSc, MES, MSc, PhD, Director, Centre for International Health; Associate Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences; Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation; Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, CanadaDebrework Zewdie, Director, Global HIV/AIDS Program of the World Bank Human Development Network World Bank