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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, 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/
      **
    * *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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