Dear all, Many of you may be interested in this international "Achieving Global Goals Through Innovation" conference held at Yale University. Please forward this message to anyone who may be interested in attending or presenting.
Register and/or submit an abstract. Registration rate increases monthly. Abstract deadline is September 15. Unite For Sight 6th Annual Global Health & Development Conference April 18-19, 2009 "Achieving Global Goals Through Innovation" http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference When: April 18-19, 2009 Where: Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA What: Join 2,500 conference participants for a stimulating international conference As Featured On CNN: The Unite For Sight Conference Is What CNN Calls "A Meeting of Minds" NOW OPEN: Registration and Abstract Submission <http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference> - Abstract deadline is September 15 200 Speakers, Including Keynote Addresses by Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, Dr. Sonia Sachs, Dr. Allan Rosenfield, Dr. Susan Blumenthal, and Dr. Harold Varmus. Plus sessions by CEOs and Directors of Save The Children, Partners in Health, HealthStore Foundation, mothers2mothers, and many others. Register For Conference REGISTER NOW TO SECURE LOWEST RATE <http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference>. Rate escalates each month. Interested in submitting an abstract? Anyone may submit an abstract. Abstract submitters range from students to professionals. Who should attend? Anyone interested in international health, public health, international development, medicine, nonprofits, eye care, philanthropy, microfinance, social entrepreneurship, bioethics, economics, anthropology, health policy, advocacy, environmental health, service-learning, medical education, and public service. Confirmed Keynote Speakers Susan Blumenthal, MD, MPA, Former US Assistant Surgeon General, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown School of Medicine and Tufts University Medical Center; Senior Medical Advisor, amfAR (The Foundation for AIDS Research Allan Rosenfield, MD, DeLamar Professor of Public Health, and Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology; Dean, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University 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 Ehrlich Sachs, MD, MPH, Health Coordinator, Millennium Village Project Harold Varmus, MD, President and Chief Executive, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; Former Director of the NIH; Nobel Prize Recipient Confirmed Featured Speakers Sam Abbenyi, MD, MSc, Director, Programs and Logistics, International Trachoma Initiative Alastair Ager, PhD, Professor of Clinical Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University Jared Ament, MD, MPH, Clinical Research Fellow, Ophthalmology & 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 Officer, Worldwide Orphans Foundation (WWO); Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Weill Medical College of Cornell University Elizabeth Ashbourne, Results Secretariat, OPCS, World Bank Thomas Baah, MD, MSc, Ophthalmologist, Our Lady of Grace Hospital, Ghana Richard Baraniuk, PhD, Founder, Connexions; Victor E. Cameron Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University Sheri Berenbach, MBA, Executive Director, Calvert Foundation Paul Berman, OD, FAAO, Senior Global Clinical Advisor and Founder, Special Olympics Lions Clubs, International Opening Eyes David Bloom, Chair, Department of Global Health and Population; Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health Neil Boothby, EdD, Professor of Clinical Population and Family Health, Director of the Program on Forced Migration and Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University Peter Bourne, MA, MD, Visiting Scholar, Oxford University; Vice Chancellor Emeritus, St. George's University; Formerly Special Assistant to the President of the United States for Health Issues; Chair, Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba (MEDICC) Elizabeth Bradley, PhD, Professor of Public Health, Division of Health Policy and Administration; director, Health Management Program; Director, Global Health Initiatives, Yale School of Public Health Ronald Braswell, MD, MS, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Alabama-Birmingham Harry Brown, MD, Founder, Surgical Eye Expeditions (SEE) International Richard Bucala, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine, Pathology, and Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine Michael Chu, MBA, Senior Lecturer of Business Administration, Harvard Business School James Clarke, MD, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana Lisa Croucher, Assistant Director, Education and Training, Global Health Institute, Duke University Emmanuel d'Harcourt, Senior Child Survival Technical Advisor, International Rescue Committee Margaret Duah-Mensah, RN, ON, Ophthalmic Nurse, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana Marva Eberhart, Teacher For Visually Impaired, Kansas City, Missouri School District; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Accra, Ghana Paul Epstein, MD, MPH, Associate Director, Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard Medical School Dabney Evans, MPH, Executive Director, Emory University Institute of Human Rights; Lecturer, Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University Gene Falk, Co-Founder, Executive Directors, mothers2mothers Valda Ford, MPH, MS, RN, CEO and Founder, Center For Human Diversity Susan Forster, MD, Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Medical Studies, Department of Ophthalmology, Yale School of Medicine; Chief, Ophthalmology, Yale University Health Services Stanley O. Foster, MD, MPH, Professor, Hubert Department of Global Health Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University James Fraser, MA, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Dignitas International Ulrick Gaillard, JD, CEO, The Batey Relief Alliance Gannon Gillespie, Director of US Operations, Tostan Heskel Haddad, MD, Ophthalmologist; President, Optoed Corp, Inc. Rebecca Hardin, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Natural Resources and Environment and Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan Susan Hayes, President and CEO, Interplast Scott Hillstrom, Chairman of the Board, CEO and Co-Founder, HealthStore Foundation Steve Hilton, President, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Debbie Humphries, MPH, PhD, Clinical Instructor, Division of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Social and Behavioral Sciences Program, Yale University School of Medicine Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena, PhD, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Malaria Research Institute, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health Kartee Karloweah, ON, RN, Ophthalmic Nurse, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana Zachary Kaufman, JD Candidate, Yale Law School; DPhil Candidate in International Relations, Oxford University Kaveh Khoshnood, PhD, Assistant Professor in Public Health Practice, Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health Karen King, MA, Elementary School Teacher, Reed Intermediate School; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Accra, Ghana Jamie Lachman, Clowns Without Borders Doug Lawrence, Vice President/General Manager, BD Medical - Ophthalmic Systems Robert Lawrence, MD, Center for A Livable future Professor; Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Health Policy & International Health; Director, Center for a Livable Future, Department of Environmental Health Sciences; Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Robert Malkin, PhD, Professor of Practice of Biomedical Engineering Director, Duke-Engineering World Health, Duke University Charles MacCormack, PhD, President and CEO, Save The Children John McGoldrick, JD, Senior Vice President, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) Michelle McMurry, Director, Health, Biomedical Science and Society Initiative, The Aspen Institute Benjamin Mason Meier, JD, LLM, MPhil, Public Health Law Project Manager, Center for Health Policy, IGERT-International Development and Globalization Fellow, Columbia University Carol McLaughlin, MD, MPH, Global Health, Center for High Impact Philanthropy, School of Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania Joia Mukherjee, MD, MPH, Medical Director, Partners in Health; Director, Institute for Health and Social Justice; Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School; Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities, Brigham and Women's Hospital Laura Murray-Kolb, PhD, Assistant Professor, Center for Human Nutrition, Department of International Health, The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health 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 Edward O'Neil, Jr, MD, Omni Med Santa Ono, PhD, Vice Provost for Academic Initiatives and Deputy Provost of Emory University; Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Emory Eye Center Robin Paetzold, MBA, Director, Global Programs, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine David J. Palmer, MD, Chair, Seniors EyeCare Program, EyeCare America Yannis Paulus, MD Candidate, Stanford University School of Medicine Steven C. Phillips, MD, MPH, Medical Director, Global Issues and Projects, Exxon Mobil Corporation Suzanne Rainey, Forum One Communications Susan Reef, MD, CDC Lee Roberts, PhD, MPH, Associate Clinical Professor of Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University Steven Rothstein, President, Perkins School For The Blind Lisa Russell, MPH, Filmmaker Jinan Saaddine, MD, MPH, Medical Epidemiologist, Vision Health Initiative Team Leader, Division of Diabetes Translation, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Sarwat Salim, MD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Tennessee-Memphis Sarang Samal, Kalinga Eye Hospital, Orissa, India Harshad Sanghvi, MD, Medical Director, JHPIEGO, Johns Hopkins University Daniel D. Sedmak, MD, Director, Office of Global Health Education; Executive Vice Dean, College of Medicine; Executive Director, Center for Personalized Health care; Senior Associate Vice President, Office of Health Sciences, The Ohio State University Tamilarasan Senthil, MBBS, Consulting Ophthalmologist, Uma Eye Clinic, India Bruce Shields, MD, Chair Emeritus, Yale Department of Ophthalmology Kuldev Singh, MD, MPH, Professor of Ophthalmology, Stanford University School of Medicine Ajit Sinha, MBBS, Founder and Director, AB Eye Institute; Former President, All India Ophthalmological Society Pooja Sinha, MBBS, Ophthalmologist, AB Eye Institute, Patna, India Renu Sinha, MBBS, Former Head of the Obs and Gynea Department of Patna Medical College Hospital; Former President of Bihar Obs and Gynea Society Satyajit Sinha, MBBS, Ophthalmologist, AB Eye Institute, Patna, India Janice K. Smith, MD, MPH, PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center for Training in International Health at UTMB Lanny Smith, MD, MPH, DTM&H, Professor of Medicine in the Residency Programs of Primary Care and Social Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Assistant Director, Human Rights Clinic for Victims of Torture, Montefiore; Founder and President, Doctors for Global Health Georgia Sambunaris, MA, Senior Financial Markets Specialist, USAID Samuel So, MD, Lui Hac Minh Professor of Surgery; Director, Asian Liver Center; Director, Liver Cancer Program, Stanford University School of Medicine Lindsay Stark, Research Associate, Program on Forced Migration and Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University Chris Stout, PsyD, Founding Director, Center for Global Initiatives; Clinical Professor, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago James C. Tsai, MD, Robert R. Young Professor and Chairman, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Yale University School of Medicine; Chief of Ophthalmology, Yale-New Haven Hospital Philippe Van Denbossche, Executive Director, Raising Malawi Anvar Velji, MD, Co-Founder and Treasurer, Global Health Education Consortium; Chief of Infectious Disease at Kaiser Permanente, South Sacramento; Clinical Professor, University of California at Davis Seth Wanye, MD, Ophthalmologist, Eye Clinic of Tamale Teaching Hospital, Ghana Tanya Whitehead, PhD, Research Associate Professor, University of Missouri - Kansas City Dayan Woldemichael, MD, Chad Country Director, International Medical Corps David Zakus, BSc, MES, MSc, PhD, Director, Centre for International Health; Associate Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences; Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation; Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada Debrework Zewdie, Director, Global HIV/AIDS Program of the World Bank Human Development Network World Bank
