_*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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Abstract Categories:

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

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*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


Confirmed Speakers in Global Health, International Development,
Public Health, Medicine, Health Policy and Advocacy Sessions
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Confirmed Speakers in Global Eye Care and Research Sessions
<http://www.uniteforsight.org/2007_annual_conference.php#sec2>


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

*Nancy Aossey*, President and CEO, International Medical Corps
*Ann Banchoff*, MSW, MPH, Program Director, Office of Community Health,
Stanford University School of Medicine
*Daniel Bausch*, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Tulane University School
of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
*Donna and Philip Berber*, Founders, Glimmer of Hope
*"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
*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
*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
*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 P
*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
*"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
*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
*Philip Pizzo*, MD, Dean of Stanford University School of Medicine
*Jonathan D. Quick*, MD, MPH, President & Chief Executive Officer,
Management Sciences for Health
*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
*Lisa Russell*, MPH, Filmmaker, Obstetric Fistula
*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
*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
*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
*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

*Robert Alexander*, MPH, PhD, National Eye Institute
*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
*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
*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
*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
*Jacob Kumaresan*, MD, MPH, Dr.PH, President, International Trachoma
Initiative
*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 Diseases of Artists: Van Gough, Monet, and Others," Michael
Marmor*, MD, Professor of Ophthalmology, Stanford University
*Roger Martin*, Allergan/Lumigan Glaucoma Screening Activist
*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
*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
*Jennifer Peterson*, Country Director, Guinea and Sierra Leone, Helen
Keller International
*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
*Kuldev Singh*, MD, Professor of Ophthalmology, Stanford University
*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
*Ken Tuck*, MD, Past President of American Academy of Ophthalmology
*R. Venkatesh*, DO, DNB, Deputy CMO, Aravind Eye Hospital, Pondicherry,
India
*"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



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