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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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- International Medicine and International Health
- Public Health
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- Scientific Research
- Advocacy and Health Policy
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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
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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