UNITE FOR SIGHT ANNUAL CONFERENCE
PERSPECTIVES: EYES ON PUBLIC HEALTH

April 24, 2004
9 am - 5 pm ET
Held at NYU School of Medicine
New York City

Unite For Sight is pleased to announce the First Annual Unite For Sight
Conference on April 24, 2004 at NYU School of Medicine in New York
City.  This "Perspectives: Eyes on Public Health"  Conference, which offers
a program of symposia and lectures, serves as a forum for the exchange of
ideas among students, volunteers, and leading figures in ophthalmology,
public health, health education, and policy.  The Unite For Sight
Conference also provides an opportunity for students to present independent
research in the Student Plenary Session.  The Annual Meeting is open to the
general public.

Please be advised that Early Bird Registration for the First Annual Unite
For Sight International Conference in New York City ends on April 1.  After
April 1, the registration fee increases from $6 to $10.  100% of the
registration fees will be used to cover the cost of cataract surgeries
arranged by Unite For Sight in Ghana, in conjunction with IFMSA's Ghana
Health and Education Initiative.

Register at our website:
http://www.uniteforsight.org/2004_annual_conference.shtml

"The Power of Student Activism,"H. Jack Geiger, MD, Arthur C. Logan
Professor Emeritus of Community Medicine and Director of the Program in
Health, Medicine and Society of the City College of New York
Dr. Geiger's professional career has been focused on problems of health and
poverty, and he has been a champion of health and human rights over the
past five decades. He was a founding member and Past President of
Physicians for Social Responsibility, the U.S. affiliate of International
Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, which received the Nobel
Prize for Peace in 1985.  He is also a founding member and Past President
of Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), which shared in the Nobel Prize for
Peace in 1998.  He also initiated the community health center model in the
US and was a leader in the development of the national health center
network of more than 800 urban, rural, and migrant centers currently
serving nine million low-income patients.  From 1965-71, he was Co-Director
and then Director of the first urban and first rural health centers in the
U.S., at Columbia Point, Boston, and Mound Bayou, Mississippi.

"Medicine and Public Health: A Personal Journey," Dr. Walter Tsou, MD, MPH,
President-Elect, American Public Health Association
Dr. Tsou, former city health commissioner of Philadelphia and now a public
health consultant, is President-Elect of the American Public Health
Association.  He is a member of the Technical Advisory Group for Healthy
People 2010 for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and on the
board of directors of the Pennsylvania Public Health Association. He is
presently a faculty adviser for the Philadelphia Asian American Health Care
Network, on the Dean's Alumni Advisory Council at Johns Hopkins University
Bloomberg School of Public Health, and on the board of directors for both
Physicians for a National Health Program and Philadelphia Physicians for
Social Responsibility.  Formerly a medical director/deputy director for
personal health services at the Montgomery County Health Department in
Pennsylvania from 1991 to 2000, Dr. Tsou also served as a clinical
assistant professor of community and preventive medicine and clinical
assistant professor of medicine at the MCP Hahnemann School of
Medicine.  Dr. Tsou was a member of the Executive Board of the American
Public Health Association from 1998 to 2000 and is a member of the
Association's Community Health Planning and Policy Development Section.

  "Vision2020: The Right to Sight, a Global Initiative,"Dr. Louis
Pizzarello, MD, Chair of the North American Region of the International
Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB).
Dr. Pizzarello is a recognized expert in the fields of public health and
ophthalmology. He has worked in blindness prevention programs in 40
countries. His particular interest has been in cataract programs,
nutritional and childhood blindness, and the prevention of eye injuries. He
has authored numerous scientific papers in the field and has served on a
number of advisory boards and committees. He has been named a Distinguished
Citizen by Southampton College and has received the Honor Award of the
American Academy of Ophthalmology and the Spirit of Helen Keller Award from
Helen Keller Worldwide.  He holds an undergraduate degree from Colgate
University, a medical degree from the University of Virginia and a masters
degree in public health from Harvard. He has practiced ophthalmology for
the past 25 years in Southampton, NY, and is currently associate clinical
professor of ophthalmology and public health at the College of Physicians
and Surgeons of Columbia University as well as adjunct assistant professor
of preventive medicine at SUNY/Stony Brook.

  "Advances in Corneal Transplantation,"Dr. Shachar Tauber, MD, Assistant
Professor of Ophthalmology at Yale University School of Medicine and
Director of Yale's Cornea and Refractive Surgery Service
Dr. Tauber, who is on Unite For Sight's Executive Board of Advisors, is a
leader in refractive surgery.  He participated in clinical research
supporting the FDA approval of LASIK for correction of hyperopia.  He was
Visiting Fellow in advanced techniques in refractive surgery in Venezuela,
and served as an observational fellow in cornea and external disease as
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Hospital.  Dr. Tauber was invited to educate
ophthalmologists at the 1998 Global Ophthalmology Conference in China and
at Tamil Nadu Medical University in India in 1999.

  Mr. Joe LaMountain, Vice President, Strategic Communications of Vision
Council of America
Mr. LaMountain leads advocacy to improve eye health care for children.
Previously he worked for the American Diabetes Association as the National
Director of Advocacy, where he helped to get 37 state laws passed that
required health insurance plans to cover diabetes supplies and education as
a basic benefit. He helped to enact a similar law benefiting senior
Medicare diabetes patients.

President or Director of International Trachoma Initiative
The International Trachoma Initiative (ITI) is dedicated to the elimination
of blinding trachoma, the world's leading cause of preventable
blindness.  ITI seeks to achieve global elimination of blinding trachoma by
putting into action the SAFE strategy, applied research and program
evaluation, and communications and advocacy.

  "A Role for Health Education," Ms. Rosemary Janiszewski, Deputy Director,
Office of Communication, Health Education and Public Liaison; Director,
National Eye Institute Health Education Program, NIH.
Ms. Janiszewski has worked in the health education field for more than 20
years at both the state and federal level. Since 1989, she has directed NEI
health education activities, including the National Eye Health Education
Program, a program to prevent vision loss through public and professional
education programs. Before joining the NEI , Ms. Janiszewski was the
coordinator for the Cancer Information Service in Illinois. She also served
as a program coordinator at the American Heart Association of Wisconsin.
She received her MS in community health education at the University of
Wisconsin-La Crosse. She is a Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES).

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