Please forward widely
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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
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Join 2,000 conference attendees and 130 speakers for a stimulating
conference.
Keynote Addresses By Dr. Jeffrey Sachs and Dr. Sonia Sachs
And 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 ($35 Students, $60 All
Others) Increases After June 15th -
http://uniteforsight.org/conference/2008/registration.php REGISTER BY
JUNE 15TH 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*
* *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
* 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
* 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
* Michael Gyasi, MD, Ophthalmologist and Director of the Bawku Eye
Care Program, Ghana
* 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
* Tshepo Mbalambi, BSc, Med Sci, MBcHB Candidate, University of
Ghana School of Medicine
* 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
* 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
* Peter Singer, MD, Professor of Clinical Medicine; Chief, Clinical
Endocrinology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern
California
* Kari Stoever, Senior Program Officer, Neglected Tropical
Diseases, Sabin Vaccine Institute
* Robert Farris Thompson, PhD, Col. John Trumbull Professor of the
History of Art, Yale University
* Jamie Lachman and Tim Cunningham, Clowns Without Borders
* 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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