Please Forward Widely

*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*
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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
<http://uniteforsight.org/conference/2008/conf_speakers.php>

*Call For Abstracts *- DEADLINE JULY 15, 2007 -
*http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference/2008*

*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/
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* *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
* *Philippe van den Bossche,* Executive Director, Raising Malawi
* *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
* *Valentin Fuster, *MD, PhD, Director, The Zena and Michael A.
Wiener Cardiovascular Institute; Director, The Marie-Josee and
Henry R. Kravis Center for Cardiovascuclar Health; Richard Gorlin,
MD/Heart Research Foundation Professor, Mount Sinai;
Past-President, American Heart Association; President-elect, World
Heart Federation
* *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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