CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: International Health & Development Conference at Yale
- From: Jennifer Staple <Jennifer.Staple@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 16:14:02 -0000
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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. Jeffrey Sachs, Dr. Sonia Sachs, Dr. Susan
Blumenthal, and Dr. Jim Yong Kim
Plus More Than 130 Featured Speakers
Call For Abstracts - DEADLINE JULY 15, 2007 -
http://uniteforsight.org/conference/2008/abstracts.php
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*
* Susan 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 Georgetown 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
* Jeffrey 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
* Sonia 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
* Jared 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
* Thomas 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
* Georges Benjamin, MD, Executive Director, American Public Health
Association
* Paul 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
* Harry S. Brown, MD, Founder, Surgical Eye Expeditions (SEE)
International
* Donald Budenz, MD, MPH, Professor of Ophthalmology,
Epidemiology, and Public Health, University of Miami Miller School of
Medicine
* Michael 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
* Emily Moore and Mark Carlson, PhD, Adjunct Professor, Sociology,
San Diego State University
* James Clarke, MD, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Crystal
Eye Clinic, Ghana
* Susan 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
* Susan Hall Forster, MD, Associate Clinical Professor, Department
of Medical Studies, Department of Ophthalmology, Yale School of
Medicine; Chief, Ophthalmology, Yale University Health Services
* David Friedman, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology
and International Health, Johns Hopkins University
* Urick Gaillard, JD, Founder and Executive Director, The Batey
Relief Alliance
* Gabriel Garcia, 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
* Michael 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 Jones, 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
* John McGoldrick, Senior Vice President, International AIDS
Vaccine Initiative (IAVI)
* Christine 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 Nathanson, MD, Associate Dean, Global Health Programs,
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
* Thomas Novotny, MD, MPH, Director of International Programs;
Professor in Residence, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCSF School of
Medicine
* Edward 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
* Matthew Paul, MD, Danbury Eye Physicians and Surgeons
* Steven C. Phillips, MD, MPH, Medical Director, Global Issues and
Projects, Exxon Mobil Corporation
* Louis Pizzarello, MD, MPH, Secretary General, International
Agency for the Prevention of Blindness
* Thomas Quinn, MD, Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Global
Health
* Nathan Radcliffe, MD, Glaucoma Service at New York Eye & Ear
Infirmary
* Ian Rawson, MD, CEO/Directeur General, Hopital Albert Schweitzer
Haiti
* William Reese, President and CEO, International Youth Foundation
* Ilya Rozenbuam, MD, GANY Glaucoma Fellow, New York Eye and Ear
Institute
* Leonard Rubenstein, Executive Director, Physicians for Human
Rights
* Jennifer 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
* Lisa Russell, 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. Scott Smith, 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 George 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
* Robert Farris Thompson, PhD, Col. John Trumbull Professor of the
History of Art, Yale University
* Jamie Lachman and Tim Cunningham, Clowns Without Borders
* James 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
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