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Innovation, Advancement, and Best Practices To Achieve Global Goals
Unite For Sight's Fourth Annual International Health Conference
`APRIL 14-15, 2007 - STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, CALIFORNIA,
USA

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How to submit an abstract for poster or oral presentation (ABSTRACT
SUBMISSION DEADLINE JULY 15):
http://www.uniteforsight.org/2007_annual_conference.php


Abstract Categories:


1. International Medicine and International Health
2. Public Health
3. Eye Care
4. Scientific and Medical Research
5. Advocacy and Health Policy
6. Social innovation and entrepreneurship

Register Today For A Reduced Rate! (Current Rate is $35 Students/$55 All
Others - RATE INCREASES AFTER July 15
http://www.uniteforsight.org/2007_annual_conference.php

When: April 14-15, 2007
Where: Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, USA
Theme: "Innovation, Advancement, and Best Practices To Achieve Global Goals"
Who should attend?Anyone interested in eye care, international health,
medicine, health education, health promotion, public health, international
service, nonprofits, or microenterprise
Conference Goal: To exchange ideas across disciplines about best practices
in public health, medicine and research, and international health and
development. Conference topics range from "The Right to Health: Towards
Social Inclusion and Universal Health Care in Latin America" and
"Antiretroviral Drugs and Issues of Drug Access and Quality in the
Developing World" to "Global Progress in Preventing the Burden of Blindness
and Other Diseases Caused by Measles and Rubella" and "Once I Was
Blind....The Challenges of Eye Care in Ghana"

* Join over 1,500 leaders, doctors, professionals, and students from 5
continents
* More than 150 speakers about eye care, public health, international
development, entrepreneurship, microfinance, policy and advocacy, bioethics,
and medicine
* Exchange ideas about best practices to achieve global goals in
health and development


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Speakers in Global Health, International Development, Public Health,
Medicine, Health Policy and Advocacy Sessions
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Speakers in Global Eye Care and Research Sessions


Global Health, International Development, Public Health, Medicine, Health
Policy and Advocacy


Nancy Aossey, President and CEO, International Medical Corps
"Infectious Diseases and Human Rights: Making Research Matter," Daniel
Bausch, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Tulane University School of Public
Health and Tropical Medicine
"Social Investing and Entrepreneurship in the Business of International
Development," Philip Berber, Founders, A Glimmer of Hope Foundation
"Insecticide-Treated Bednets in Mass Disease Control and Elimination
Campaigns," Brian Blackburn, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Infectious
Diseases, Stanford School of Medicine
"Health Care in Georgia," Trish Blair, MD, President, A Call To Serve
International
"Antiretroviral Drugs and Issues of Drug Access and Quality in the
Developing World," Terry Blaschke, MD, Professor of Medicine and Molecular
Pharmacology, Stanford University
"Critical Health Issues in the 21st Century," Susan Blumenthal, MD, MPA,
Former US Assistant Surgeon General, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at
Georgetown School of Medicine and Tufts University Medical Center
"Creating a Rural Learning Environment in a Rural School in South India,"
Mason Byles, former executive at Hewlett Packard
"The Right To Health: Towards Social Inclusion and Universal Health Care in
Latin America," Arachu Castro, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Social
Medicine; Program in Infectious Disease and Social Change, Harvard School of
Medicine
"Leprosy Rehabilitation in India," Robert A. Chase, MD, Emile Holman
Professor of Surgery Emeritus, Stanford University School of Medicine
"Global Progress in Preventing the Burden of Blindness and Other Diseases
Caused by Measles and Rubella," Stephen L. Cochi, MD, MPH, Senior Advisor,
Global Immunization Division, National Immunization Program, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention
"Passing on the Gift: Heifer's Approach to Sustainable Development and
Program Expansion," Jim DeVries, MD, Senior Vice President of Programs,
Heifer International
Sunita Dodani, MD, MS, FCPS, PhD, Department of Epidemiology, Graduate
School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh
Kamran Elahian, MS, Chairman, Co-Founder, Global Catalyst Partners;
Co-Founder, Global Catalyst Foundation and Schools Online
"Public Private Partnerships to Advance Technologies for Neglected Disease,"
Christopher Elias, MD, MPH, President of PATH
"The Dominican Bateyes: Humanitarian Crisis on the Sugar Cane Plantations,"
Ulrick Gaillard, JD, CEO of Batey Relief Alliance
"Advocacy and Community Health," Gabriel Garcia, MD, Professor of Medicine,
Associate Dean of Medical School Admissions, Stanford University School of
Medicine
"With Women Worldwide: Sexual and Reproductive Rights and Health to End
HIV/AIDS," Adrienne Germain, President, International Women's Health
Coalition
"Hold Your Breath: Cultural Competency," Maren Grainger-Monsen, MD, Senior
Research Scholar, Center for Biomedical Ethics, Stanford School of Medicine
"The War on AIDS - Integration Equals Impact," George Guimaraes, President
and CEO, Project Concern International
"HIV/AIDS in China," Jessica Haberer, MD, Research Advisor, Clinton
Foundation
John Hammock, PhD, The Alexander N. McFarlane Associate Professor of Public
Policy, Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and
Policy and The Fletcher School, Tufts University; Former Executive Director,
Oxfam America; former Executive Director, ACCION International; Founder and
Former Director, Feinstein International Famine Center, Tufts University;
Consultant, Women's World Banking and USAID
Lindsay M. Harris, Managing Director, A Bridge for Africa Foundation
Polly F Harrison, PhD, Director, Alliance for Microbicide Development
Susan Hayes, President and CEO, Interplast
David Heymann, MD, MPH, Former Executive Director for Communicable Diseases,
World Health Organization
Amreen Husain, MD, Assistant Professor of Gynecologic Oncology, Stanford
University
Evaleen Jones, MD, Founder, President and Medical Director, Child Family
Health International; Clinical Assistant Professor, Stanford University
School of Medicine
Judith Justice, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor of Medical Anthropology and
Health Policy in Residence, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics,
UCSF
"Pediatric AIDS: Worlds Apart," Mark W. Kline, MD, President, Baylor
International Pediatric AIDS Initiative; Professor of Pediatrics and Head,
Section of Retrovirology, Baylor College of Medicine
"Addressing the Reproductive Health of Women and Girls Displaced by Conflict
and Natural Disasters," Sandra Krause, MPH, BSN, Reproductive Health Project
Director, Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children
"Partnerships in Public Health," Jacob Kumaresan, MD, MPH, Dr.PH, President,
International Trachoma Initiative
"Healing Through Laughter - An Innovative Psychosocial Response to the
HIV/AIDS Crisis in Southern Africa," Jamie Mclaren Lachman, Project Njabulo
Director, Clowns Without Borders
Peter R. Lamptey, MD, DrPH, President, Family Health International Institute
for HIV/AIDS
Ana Langer, MD, President and CEO, EngenderHealth
"Health and Human Rights," Robert S. Lawrence, MD, Edyth H. Schoenrich
Professor of Preventive Medicine and Associate Dean for Professional
Practice and Programs; Director, Center for a Livable Future, Johns Hopkins
Bloomberg School of Public Health
"An Effective Model of Rural Microfinance," Brian Lehnen, Executive Director
and Co-Founder, Village Enterprise Fund
Fiona Macaulay, President, Making Cents International
Jane Maxwell, Editor, Hesperian Foundation
"Solar Cooking and Solar Water Pasteurization - Addressing Two Basic Needs
in Developing Countries," Robert Metcalf, PhD, Professor Biological
Sciences, California State University, Sacramento; Treasurer, Solar Cookers
International
John McGoldrick, Executive Vice President, Bristol-Myers Squibb
"Is Women's Health A Human Right?" Mini Murthy, MD, MPH, MS, Assistant
Professor of Practice,New York Medical College School of Public Health
Andre-Jacques Neusy, MD, DTM&H, Associate Professor of Medicine; Director of
Center for Global Health, New York University School of Medicine
"Innovations in Global Health Education," Thomas Novotny, MD, MPH, Director
of International Programs; Professor in Residence, Epidemiology and
Biostatistics, UCSF School of Medicine
Bjorg Palsdottir, MPA, Consultant, Co-Founder and Associate Director of the
Center for Global Health at New York Unive
"Exploring Reproductive and Sexual Health With Liberian Refugee Women," Rena
Patel, MPhil, BA, MD Candidate, Stanford School of Medicine
"FARNG: Improving Nutritional Status of Pregnant Women in Guinea," Jennifer
Peterson, Country Director, Guinea and Sierra Leone, Helen Keller
International
Philip Pizzo, MD, Dean of Stanford University School of Medicine
Jonathan D. Quick, MD, MPH, President & Chief Executive Officer, Management
Sciences for Health
"Delivering HIV Prevention and Care Services to Rural African Villages
Tthrough Christian and Muslim Religious Groups," William W. Rankin, PhD,
President, Global AIDS Interfaith Alliance
Farshad Rastegar, MD, President and CEO, Relief International
"Addressing the Root Causes of Disease in Haiti," Ian Rawson, Hopital Albert
Schweitzer Haiti
William Reese, President and CEO, International Youth Foundation
"To Replant the Uprooted: Toward A Shared Vision of Health Communities,"
George Rupp, PhD, President and CEO, International Rescue Committee
"Love, Labor, Loss: A Film on Obstetric Fistula," Lisa Russell, MPH,
Filmmaker
Harshad Sanghvi, MD, Medical Director, Maternal and Neonatal Health Program,
JHPIEGO
Scott Sasser, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine,
Emory University School of Medicine
Karen Sendelback, President and CEO, Friends of the World Food Program
"Reducing Maternal Mortality in Three Low Resource Countries," Jill
Sheffield, President, Family Care International
Robert David Siegel, MD, PhD, Department of Microbiology and Immunology,
Program in Human Biology, and Center for African Studies, Stanford
University
Lilit Simonyan, MPA Candidate; Founder, Former CEO, International Director,
Stepanavan Youth Center NGO Armenia
"Medicine in Vietnam: Past, Present, and Future," Peter A. Singer, MD,
Chairman, East Meets West Foundation; Professor of Clinical Medicine, Chief,
Clinical Endocrinology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern
California
"Basic Pathology and Immunology of Leprosy," David M. Scollard, MD, PhD,
Chief, Research Pathology, National Hansen's Disease Programs, Louisiana
State University
Cathy Skoula, Executive Director, Action Against Hunger-USA
D. Scott Smith, MD, MSc, DTM&H, Chief of Infectious Disease & Geographic
Medicine, Kaiser Redwood City Hospital
Jim Smith, Executive Director, American International Health Alliance Inc
Jessie Stone, MD, Director, Soft Power Heath, Uganda
"Global HIV Prevention From Mother to Child: Challenges for Low Resource
Settings," Landry Tsague, MD, William H. Foege Fellow, Department of Global
Health at Emory Rollins School of Public Health
"Global Health Ethics in the New Millenium, Evolving Concepts," Anvar Velji,
MD, Treasurer, Global Health Education Consortium; Chief of Infectious
Disease at Kaiser Permanente, South Sacramento; Clinical Professor,
University of California at Davis
"Advances and Ongoing Challenges in HIV Therapy," Paul Volberding, MD,
Professor and Vice Chair, UCSF Department of Medicine; Chief, Medical
Service SF Veterans Affairs Medical Center; Co-Director, UCSF-GIVI Center
for AIDS Research
Karen White, MBA, MPH, Senior Researcher, Institute for Global Health, UCSF
Tanya Whitehead, PhD, University of Missouri - Kansas City
Elliott Wolfe, MD, Consulting Professor of Medicine, Stanford University
School of Medicine
"Leadership of Global Health NGOs," Derek Yach, MBChB, MPH, Director of
Rockefeller Foundation's Program on Global Health


Global Eye Care and Research


R. Rand Allingham, MD, Professor of Ophthalmology; Director, Glaucoma
Service, Duke University Eye Center
"Eye Care in Ghana, The Challenges and Way Forward," Thomas Tontie Baah, MD,
Our Lady of Grace Catholic Hospital, Ghana
"Progress Towards Affordable Vision Correction: New Appropriate Technology
and Clinical Methodology," Ian B. Berger, M.D., M.P.H. Dr.PH, Founding
President, InFOCUS
Tom Beggins, MD, Former Medical Director and Surgeon, Lusaka Eye Hospital,
Zambia
Sandy Block, OD, Illinois College of Optometry
"Cataracts in Developing Countries: A Humanitarian Emergency," Harry S.
Brown, MD, Founder and President, SEE International
"Glaucoma in Africa: What We Know and What We Need To Know," Donald Budenzv,
MD, MPH, Professor of Ophthalmology, Epidemiology, and Public Health,
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
"Cornea Transplant Needs and Barriers in Ghana," James Clarke, MD,
Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana
Pat Cross, PhD, Professor and Associate Dean for Medical Student Research
and Scholarship, Stanford School of Medicine
"Ocular Leprosy: Results From A Seven Year Longitudinal Study," Ebenezer
Daniel, M.B.B.S.M.S.D.O.M.P.H.M.A.M.S, Division of Ocular Immunology,
Department of Ophthalmology, The Johns Hopkins University School of
Medicines
Osei Darkwa, PhD, MCSE, CCNA, Founder and President, Ghana Computer Literacy
and Distance Education; Founder, Asante Akim Multipurpose Community
Telecentre; Unite For Sight Ghana Program Coordinator
Syril Dorairaj, MD, Glaucoma Service at New York Eye & Ear Infirmary
Gordon Douglas, MD, Medical Director, Orbis International
"Eye Health Integration; 'A New Vision For The Future," Michael R. Duenas,
OD, Health Scientist/Project Officer, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health
Promotion, Division of Diabetes Translation and National Vision Program
"What I Have Learned About Glaucoma Management in Ghana," Peter Egbert, MD,
Professor, Stanford Department of Ophthalmology
"International Trachoma Initiative - Public/Private Partnership To Eradicate
Blinding Trachoma," Joe Feczko, MD, Vice President, Pfizer Inc., Executive
Vice President, Pfizer Global Research and Development, and President,
Worldwide Development
"Women and Eye Disease," Ilene Gipson, PhD, Professor of Ophthalmology,
Harvard Medical School; Chair, Women's Eye Health Task Force Executive
Committee
Jasvir Grewal, MD, Ophthalmologist, UK
"Advances in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Retinopathy of Prematurity,"
William Good, MD
"River Blindness Control and Elimination Programs," Ken Gustavsen, Manager,
Global Product Donations, Merck & Co., Inc
"Nutritional Factors in the Development of Cataracts," Heskel Haddad, MD,
New York Medical College
"Current Challenges in Glaucoma Management," Andrew Iwach, MD, Glaucoma
Research & Education Group, American Academy of Ophthalmology Committee of
Secretaries
Mohammed Kabir, Optometrist, Kumasi School of Optometry, Ghana
Vasudev Kanade, MD, St. Raphael's Hospital
"River Blindness Disease - Past, Present, and Future Control/Elimination,"
Moses Katabarwa, BSc, MPH MA, PhD, Program Epidemiologist, River Blindness,
Lymphatic Filariasis, and Schistosomiasis Programs, Carter Center
"Vitamins and Carotenoids in the Prevention of Blindness," Klaus Kraemer,
MD, Secretary General, Sight and Life
Murali Krishnamurthy, President, Sankara Eye Foundation
"Infinite Vision - The Story of Dr. V(enkataswamy) and the Aravind Eye Care
System," Pavithra Krishnan, Filmmaker
Bradford Lee, MSc, MD Candidate, Stanford University
Tom Lewis, Southern Eye Associates, Sierra Leone
"Visioning Tibet," Marc Lieberman, MD, Founder and Medical Director, Tibet
Vision Project
"Eye Disease and Art," Michael Marmor, MD, Professor of Ophthalmology,
Stanford University
"Glaucoma and Volunteerism," Roger Martin, Allergan/Lumigan Glaucoma
Screening Activist
"Corneal Blindness in the Developing World: Impact and Therapeutic
Challenges," Stephen McLeod, MD, Theresa M. and Wayne M. Caygill MD Endowed
Chair; Associate Professor and Interim Chairman, Department of
Ophthalmology, University of California San Francisco
"Beyond Screening Camps in Southern India/Telemedicine-Assisted Vision
Centers: Aravind's New Rural Community Eyecare Strategy," Christine Melton,
MD, Friends of Aravind Association
Eydie Miller, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Scheie Eye Institute,
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
"Global Epidemiology of Childhood Blindness: Challenges for Public Health
Ophthalmology," Mohammed Muhit, MD, Clinical Research Fellow, International
Centre for Eye Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
"Sustainability and Eye Care Programs: Development of a Global Resource,"
Kovin Naidoo, BSc, BOptomOD, MPH, Director International Centre for Eyecare
Education in Africa
Alejandro Ramirez Magana, Director General, Cinepolis
Gullapalli N. Rao, MD, President, International Agency for the Prevention of
Blindness; Distinguished Chair of Eye Health, L.V. Prasad Eye Institute
"Entrepreneurship and Ophthalmic Equipment," Rizvi Rawoof, Director,
Optiquip Surgical, Sri Lanka
Hannah Reddick, Guinea Program Assistant, Helen Keller International
Alan Robin, MD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Wilmer Eye Institute,
Johns Hopkins Hospital
"An Epidemic of Blindness in Cuba: Lessons on Nutrition and Mitochondria,"
Alfredo A. Sadun, MD, PhD, Floral Thornton Chair of Vision Research,
Professor of Ophthalmology and Neurological Surgery, University of Southern
California
Cathy Schanzer, MD, Medical Director and Chief Surgeon, Southern Eye
Associates
"The Ukrainian Eye Project: A 14-Year Effort To Rehabilitate Vision Care
Capabilities in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine," William Selezinka, MD, Retired
Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology, UCSD
"Eye Care in Chennai, India," T. Senthil, MBBS, Consulting Ophthalmologist,
Uma Eye Clinic, India
Chirag Shah, MD, MPH, Wills Eye Hospital
"Identification of Pathogenic Mechanisms of Glaucoma By Systems Analysis of
Diverse Types of Genome-Wide Data," Val Shestopalov, PhD, Assistant
Professor of Ophthalmology, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
"Does Screening for Glaucoma Make Sense in the Developing World?" Kuldev
Singh, MD, Professor of Ophthalmology, Stanford University
"Forty Years of Community Ophthalmology in India," Ajit Sinha, MBBS,
Ophthalmologist, AB Eye Institute, Patna, India; Former President, All India
Ophthalmological Society
Pooja Sinha, MBBS, Ophthalmologist, AB Eye Institute, Patna, India
Satyajit Sinha, MBBS, Ophthalmologist, AB Eye Institute, Patna, India
"International Ophthalmology: Structure and Function," Bruce Spivey, MD,
President, International Council of Ophthalmology
"Education of Ophthalmologists and Allied Eye Care Providers: A Cornerstone
of Preservation and Restoration of Vision Worldwide," Bradley R. Straatsma,
MD, JD, President International Council of Ophthalmology Foundation;
Professor Emeritus, Jules Stein Eye Institute, David Geffen School of
Medicine at UCLA
"From Enthusiasm to Effectiveness - Moving Forward in Liberia, West Africa,"
Glenn Strauss, MD, Vice President of International Health Care and Programs,
Mercy Ships International
"Biominetic Artificial Cornea," Christopher Ta, MD, Assistant Professor of
Ophthalmology, Stanford University
"Advances in Cornea Transplantation," Shachar Tauber, MD, Director of
Ophthalmology Research, Cornea and Refractive Surgery, Department of
Ophthalmology and Optometry, St. John's Hospital and Clinics
Jeff Todd, MS, JD, Vice President Programs and Public Health, Prevent
Blindness America
"Eye Care Services in Northern Region, Ghana: The Role of NGOs" Seth Wanye,
MD, The Eye Clinic of Tamale Teaching Hospital, Ghana
Jachin Williams, Community Eye Care, LV Prasad Eye Institute, India
M. Roy Wilson, MD, Chancellor, University of Colorado HSC
Richard Wilson, MD, Gaucoma Service, Wills Eye Hospital