Unite For Sight's Fourth Annual International
Health Conference
Innovation, Advancement, and Best Practices in Achieving Global Goals
April 14-15, 2007 - Stanford University
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When: April 14-15, 2007
Where: Stanford University, 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
Register Today For A Reduced Rate! - http://www.uniteforsight.org/2007_annual_conference.php
- Join over 1,500 leaders, doctors, professionals, and students
from across the world
- More than 150 speakers about public health, international
development, and eye care
- Exchange ideas about best practices in achieving global goals to
improve health and development
- Participate in plenary sessions and breakout workshops
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
Terry Blaschke, MD, Professor of Medicine and
Molecular Pharmacology, Stanford University
Susan Blumenthal, MD, MPA, Former US Assistant Surgeon
General, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown School of
Medicine and Tufts University Medical Center
Araceli Castro, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor of
Social Medicine; Program in Infectious Disease and Social Change,
Harvard School of Medicine
Stephen L. Cochi, MD, MPH, Senior Advisor, Global
Immunization Division, National Immunization Program, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention
Brenda Colatrella, MBA, Senior Director, Office of
Contributions, Merck & Co. Inc
Sunita Dodani, MD, MS, FCPS, PhD, Department of
Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh
Michael Doyle, President and CEO, CHF International
Kamran Elahian, MS, Chairman, Co-Founder, Global
Catalyst Partners; Co-Founder, Global Catalyst Foundation and Schools
Online
Christopher Elias, MD, MPH, President of PATH
Ulrick Gaillard, JD, CEO of Batey Relief Alliance
Gabriel Garcia, MD, Professor of Medicine, Associate
Dean of Medical School Admissions, Stanford University School of
Medicine
Adrienne Germain, President, International Women's
Health Coalition
Maren Grainger-Monsen, MD, Senior Research Scholar,
Center for Biomedical Ethics, Stanford School of Medicine
George Guimaraes, President and CEO, Project Concern
International
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
Mark W. Kline, MD, President, Baylor International
Pediatric AIDS Initiative; Professor of Pediatrics and Head, Section of
Retrovirology, Baylor College of Medicine
Jamie Mclaren Lachman, Project Njabulo Director,
Clowns Without Borders
Ana Langer, MD, President and CEO, EngenderHealth
Brian Lehnen, Executive Director and Co-Founder,
Village Enterprise Fund
Jane Maxwell, Editor, Hesperian Foundation
Robert Metcalf, PhD, Professor Biological Sciences,
California State University, Sacramento; Treasurer, Solar Cookers
International
Mini Murthy, MD, MPH, MS, Assistant Professor of
Practice,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
Bjorg Palsdottir, MPA, Consultant, Co-Founder and
Associate Director of the Center for Global Health at New York Unive
Philip Pizzo, MD, Dean of Stanford University School
of Medicine
William W. Rankin, PhD, President, Global AIDS
Interfaith Alliance
Farshad Rastegar, MD, President and CEO, Relief
International
Ian Rawson, Hopital Albert Schweitzer Haiti
William Reese, President and CEO, International Youth
Foundation
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
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
Cathy Skoula, Executive Director, Action Against
Hunger-USA
Jim Smith, Executive Director, American International
Health Alliance Inc
Jeff Todd, MS, JD, Vice President Programs and Public
Health, Prevent Blindness America
Landry Tsague, MD, William H. Foege Fellow, Department
of Global Health at Emory Rollins School of Public Health
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
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
Thomas Tontie Baah, MD, Our Lady of Grace Catholic
Hospital, Ghana
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
Donald Budenzv, MD, MPH, Professor of Ophthalmology,
Epidemiology, and Public Health, University of Miami Miller Sch
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
Syril Dorairaj, MD, Glaucoma Service at New York Eye
& Ear Infirmary
Gordon Douglas, MD, Medical Director, Orbis
International
Peter Egbert, MD, Professor, Stanford Department of
Ophthalmology
Ilene Gipson, PhD, Professor of Ophthalmology, Harvard
Medical School; Chair, Women's Eye Health Task Force Executive Committee
Jasvir Grewal, MD, Ophthalmologist, UK
Heskel Haddad, MD, New York Medical College
Andrew Iwach, MD, Glaucoma Research & Education
Group, American Academy of Ophthalmology Committee of Secretaries
Vasudev Kanade, MD, St. Raphael's Hospital
Moses Katabarwa, MPH, PhD, Program Epidemiologist,
River Blindness, Lymphatic Filariasis, and Schistosomiasis Programs,
Carter Center
Murali Krishnamurthy, President, Sankara Eye Foundation
Jacob Kumaresan, MD, MPH, Dr.PH, President,
International Trachoma Initiative
Mark Lieberman, MD, Founder and Medical Director,
Tibet Vision Project
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
Eydie Miller, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Scheie
Eye Institute, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
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
Hannah Reddick, Guinea Program Assistant, Helen Keller
International
Alan Robin, MD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology,
Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Hospital
Alfredo A. Sadun, MD, PhD, Floral Thornton Chair of
Vision Research, Professor of Ophthalmology and Neurological Surgery,
University of Southern California
William Selezinka, MD, Retired Clinical Professor of
Ophthalmology, UCSD
Richard D. Semba, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Wilmer
Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Chirag Shah, MD, MPH, Wills Eye Hospital
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
Bruce Spivey, MD, President, International Council of
Ophthalmology
Bradley R. Straatsma, MD, JD, President International
Council of Ophthalmology Foundation; Professor Emeritus, Jules Stein
Eye Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Glenn Strauss, MD, Vice President of International
Health Care and Programs, Mercy Ships International
Christopher Ta, MD, Assistant Professor of
Ophthalmology, Stanford University
Shachar Tauber, MD, Director of Ophthalmology
Research, Cornea and Refractive Surgery, Department of Ophthalmology
and Optometry, St. John's Hospital and Clinics
Ken Tuck, MD, Past President of American Academy of
Ophthalmology
R. Venkatesh, DO, DNB, Deputy CMO, Aravind Eye
Hospital, Pondicherry, India
Martin Wand, MD, Chairman, American Academy of
Ophthalmology National Glaucoma Project
Seth Wanye, MD, The Eye Clinic of Tamale Teaching
Hospital, Ghana
