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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, 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://uniteforsight.org/conference/2008/abstracts.php
*Register For Conference* - EARLY BIRD RATE ($45 Students, $70 All
Others) - http://uniteforsight.org/conference/2008/registration.php
REGISTER NOW TO SECURE LOWEST RATE
*Who should attend?* Anyone interested in international health, public
health, international development, medicine, social entrepreneurship,
eye care, nonprofits, philanthropy, microfinance, bioethics,
anthropology, health policy, advocacy, and public service.
*Keynote Addresses*
* *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/
*Featured Speakers (Confirmed Thus Far)*
* *Greg Allgood,* PhD, Director, Children's Safe Drinking Water,
Procter & Gamble
* *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
* *Terry Blaschke*, MD, Professor of Medicine and of Molecular
Pharmacology (Active Emeritus), Stanford University School of Medicine
* *Susan Blumenthal*, MD, MPA, Former US Assistant Surgeon General,
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown School of Medicine
and Tufts University Medical Center
* *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
* *Margaret Duah-Mensah*, Ophthalmic Nurse, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana
* *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
* *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
* *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
* *F**iona Macaulay,* President, Making Cents International
* *Tshepo Mbalambi*, BSc, Med Sci, MBcHB Candidate, University of
Ghana School of Medicine
* *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
* *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
* *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
* *Lisa Russell*, MPH, Filmmaker
* *Sarwat Salim,* MD, Ophthalmologist
* *Werner Schultink,* MD, Chief Child Development and Nutrition, UNICEF
* *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
* *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
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