Abstracts and Registration: Global Health Conference at Yale

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Dear all,Many of you may be interested in this international "Achieving Global Goals Through Innovation" conference held at Yale University. Please forward this message to anyone who may be interested in attending or presenting.Register and/or submit an abstract. Registration rate increases monthly. Abstract deadline is September 15.Unite For Sight 6th Annual Global Health & Development ConferenceApril 18-19, 2009"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 - Abstract deadline is September 15200 Speakers, Including Keynote Addresses by Dr. Sachs, Dr. Sachs, Dr. Allan Rosenfield, Dr. Blumenthal, and Dr. Harold Varmus. Plus sessions by CEOs and Directors of Save The Children, Partners in Health, HealthStore Foundation, mothers2mothers, and many others.Register For Conference REGISTER NOW TO SECURE LOWEST RATE. Rate escalates each month.Interested in submitting 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.Confirmed Keynote Speakers Blumenthal, MD, MPA, Former US Assistant Surgeon General, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at town School of Medicine and Tufts University Medical Center; Senior Medical Advisor, amfAR (The Foundation for AIDS ResearchAllan Rosenfield, MD, DeLamar Professor of Public Health, and Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology; Dean, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University 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 ProjectHarold Varmus, MD, President and Chief Executive, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; Former Director of the NIH; Nobel Prize RecipientConfirmed Featured SpeakersSam Abbenyi, MD, MSc, Director, Programs and Logistics, International Trachoma InitiativeAlastair Ager, PhD, Professor of Clinical Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University Ament, MD, MPH, Clinical Research Fellow, Ophthalmology & Corneal Surgery, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School; Harvard School of Public HealthJane 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 University Ashbourne, Results Secretariat, OPCS, World Bank Baah, MD, MSc, Ophthalmologist, Our Lady of Grace Hospital, Ghana Baraniuk, PhD, Founder, Connexions; Victor E. Cameron Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice UniversitySheri Berenbach, MBA, Executive Director, Calvert Foundation 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 HealthNeil Boothby, EdD, Professor of Clinical Population and Family Health, Director of the Program on Forced Migration and Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia 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) Bradley, PhD, Professor of Public Health, Division of Health Policy and Administration; director, Health Management Program; Director, Global Health Initiatives, Yale School of Public Health 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 Chu, MBA, Senior Lecturer of Business Administration, Harvard Business School e, MD, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana Croucher, Assistant Director, Education and Training, Global Health Institute, Duke UniversityEmmanuel d'Harcourt, Senior Child Survival Technical Advisor, International Rescue CommitteeMargaret Duah-Mensah, RN, ON, Ophthalmic Nurse, Crystal Eye Clinic, GhanaMarva Eberhart, Teacher For Visually Impaired, Kansas City, Missouri School District; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Accra, Ghana Epstein, MD, MPH, Associate Director, Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard Medical SchoolDabney , MPH, Executive Director, Emory University Institute of Human Rights; Lecturer, Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health at Emory UniversityGene Falk, Co-Founder, Executive Directors, mothers2mothersValda Ford, MPH, MS, RN, CEO and Founder, Center For Human Diversity 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, TostanHeskel Haddad, MD, Ophthalmologist; President, Optoed Corp, Inc. Hardin, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Natural Resources and Environment and Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan , President and CEO, Interplast Hillstrom, Chairman of the Board, CEO and Co-Founder, HealthStore FoundationSteve Hilton, President, Conrad N. Hilton FoundationDebbie 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 HealthKartee Karloweah, ON, RN, Ophthalmic Nurse, Crystal Eye Clinic, GhanaZachary Kaufman, JD Candidate, Yale Law School; DPhil Candidate in International Relations, Oxford UniversityKaveh 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 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 PennsylvaniaJoia 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 Hospital Murray-Kolb, PhD, Assistant Professor, Center for Human Nutrition, Department of International Health, The s Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public HealthMini 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 J. Palmer, MD, Chair, Seniors EyeCare Program, EyeCare AmericaYannis us, MD Candidate, Stanford University School of Medicine C. , MD, MPH, Medical Director, Global Issues and Projects, Exxon Mobil CorporationSuzanne Rainey, Forum One Communications Reef, MD, CDCLee , PhD, MPH, Associate Clinical Professor of Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University 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 PreventionSarwat Salim, MD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Tennessee-MemphisSarang Samal, Kalinga Eye Hospital, Orissa, IndiaHarshad Sanghvi, MD, Medical Director, JHPIEGO, s Hopkins University 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 UniversityTamilarasan Senthil, MBBS, Consulting Ophthalmologist, Uma Eye Clinic, IndiaBruce 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, IndiaRenu Sinha, MBBS, Former Head of the Obs and Gynea Department of Patna Medical College Hospital; Former President of Bihar Obs and Gynea SocietySatyajit Sinha, MBBS, Ophthalmologist, AB Eye Institute, Patna, IndiaJanice K. , MD, MPH, PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center for Training in International Health at UTMBLanny , MD, MPH, DTM & H, Professor of Medicine in the Residency Programs of Primary Care and Social Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Assistant Director, Human Rights Clinic for Victims of Torture, Montefiore; Founder and President, Doctors for Global HealthGeorgia Sambunaris, MA, Senior Financial Markets Specialist, USAID So, MD, Lui Hac Minh Professor of Surgery; Director, Asian Liver Center; Director, Liver Cancer Program, Stanford University School of Medicine Stark, Research Associate, Program on Forced Migration and Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia UniversityStout, 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 MalawiAnvar Velji, MD, Co-Founder and Treasurer, Global Health Education Consortium; Chief of Infectious Disease at Kaiser Permanente, South Sacramento; Clinical Professor, University of California at Seth Wanye, MD, Ophthalmologist, Eye Clinic of Tamale Teaching Hospital, Ghana Whitehead, PhD, Research Associate Professor, University of Missouri - Kansas CityDayan Woldemichael, MD, Chad Country Director, International Medical Corps 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