CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Global Health & Development Conference

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Please forward widely. First abstract deadline is August 15.Unite For Sight 6th Annual Global Health & Development Conference

"Achieving Global Goals Through Innovation"http://www.uniteforsight.org/conferenceWhen: April 18-19, 2009

Where: Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USAWhat: Join 2,500 conference participants for a stimulating international conferenceAs 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 (First abstract deadline is August 15 (oral presentation deadline and early bird poster presentation deadline)200 Speakers, Including Keynote Addresses by Dr. Jeffrey Sachs and Dr. Sonia SachsRegister For

Conference: REGISTER BY JULY 31 TO SECURE LOWEST RATE. Rate escalates each month.Who is eligible to submit 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.Keynote AddressesJeffrey 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-moonSonia Sachs, MD, MPH, Health Coordinator, Millennium Villages200 Featured Speakers (Listed Below Are The Speakers Confirmed Thus Far)Sam Abbenyi, MD, MSc, Director, Programs and Logistics, International Trachoma InitiativeJane Aronson, MD, Director, International Pediatric Health Services; Founder and Executive Executive Officer, Worldwide Orphans Foundation (WWO); Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Weill Medical College of Cornell

UniversityThomas Baah, MD, MSc, Ophthalmologist, Our Lady of Grace Hospital, GhanaRichard Baraniuk, PhD, Founder, Connexions; Victor E. Cameron Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice UniversityPaul Berman, OD, FAAO, Senior Global Clinical Advisor and Founder, Special Olympics Lions Clubs, International Opening EyesDavid 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 HealthPeter 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)Ronald Braswell, MD, MS, Department of

Ophthalmology, University of Alabama-BirminghamHarry Brown, MD, Founder, Surgical Eye Expeditions (SEE) InternationalRichard Bucala, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine, Pathology, and Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of MedicineJames Clarke, MD, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Crystal Eye Clinic, GhanaEmmanuel d'Harcourt, Senior Child Survival Technical Advisor, International Rescue CommitteeMargaret Duah-Mensah, RN, ON, Ophthalmic Nurse, Crystal Eye Clinic, GhanaDabney Evans, MPH, Executive Director, Emory University Institute of Human Rights; Lecturer, Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health at Emory UniversitySusan Forster, MD, Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Medical Studies, Department of Ophthalmology, Yale School of

Medicine; Chief, Ophthalmology, Yale University Health ServicesStanley O. Foster, MD, MPH, Professor, Hubert Department of Global Health Rollins School of Public Health, Emory UniversityJames Fraser, MA, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Dignitas InternationalUlrick Gaillard, JD, CEO, The Batey Relief AllianceGannon Gillespie, Director of US Operations, TostanSusan Hayes, MD, President and CEO, InterplastScott Hillstrom, Chairman of the Board, CEO and Co-Founder, HealthStore FoundationSamuel Ho, MD, Lui Hac Minh Professor of Surgery; Director, Asian Liver Center; Director, Liver Cancer Program, Stanford University School of MedicineDebbie Humphries, MPH, PhD, Clinical Instructor, Division of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Social and Behavioral Sciences Program,

Yale University School of MedicineMarcelo Jacobs-Lorena, PhD, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Malaria Research Institute, Johns Hopkins School of Public HealthKaveh Khoshnood, PhD, Assistant Professor in Public Health Practice, Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public HealthKaren King, MA, Elementary School Teacher, Reed Intermediate School; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Accra, GhanaLaura Murray-Kolb, PhD, Assistant Professor, Center for Human Nutrition, Department of International Health, The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public HealthJamie Lachman, Clowns Without BordersDoug Lawrence, Vice President/General Manager, BD Medical - Ophthalmic SystemsRobert 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 HealthRobert Malkin, PhD, Professor of Practice of Biomedical Engineering Director, Duke-Engineering World Health, Duke UniversityCharles MacCormack, PhD, President and CEO, Save The ChildrenJohn McGoldrick, JD, Senior Vice President, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI)Michelle McMurry, Director, Health, Biomedical Science and Society Initiative, The Aspen InstituteBenjamin Mason Meier, JD, LLM, MPhil, Public Health Law Project Manager, Center for Health Policy, IGERT-International Development and Globalization Fellow, Columbia UniversityCarol McLaughlin, MD, MPH, Global Health, Center for High Impact

Philanthropy, School of Social Policy and Practice, University of PennsylvaniaMini Murthy, MD, MPH, MS, Assistant Professor, Department of Behavioral Science and Community Health, Program Director Global Health, New York Medical College School of Public HealthNeal Nathanson, MD, Associate Dean, Global Health Programs, University of Pennsylvania School of MedicineEdward O'Neil, Jr, MD, Omni MedSanta Ono, PhD, Vice Provost for Academic Initiatives and Deputy Provost of Emory University; Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Emory Eye CenterRobin Paetzold, MBA, Director, Global Programs, University of Iowa Carver College of MedicineSteven C. Phillips, MD, MPH, Medical Director, Global Issues and Projects, Exxon Mobil CorporationSuzanne Rainey, Forum One CommunicationsSusan

Reef, MD, CDCSteven Rothstein, President, Perkins School For The BlindLisa Russell, MPH, FilmmakerJinan Saaddine, MD, MPH, Medical Epidemiologist, Vision Health Initiative Team Leader, Division of Diabetes Translation, Centers for Disease Control and PreventionJeffrey 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-moonSonia Ehrlich Sachs, MD, MPH, Health Coordinator, Millennium Village ProjectSarwat Salim, MD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Tennessee-MemphisSarang Samal, Kalinga Eye Hospital, Orissa, IndiaShlomit Sandler, MD, New York Eye and

Ear InfirmaryHarshad Sanghvi, MD, Medical Director, JHPIEGO, Johns Hopkins UniversityHoward Schiffer, President and Founder, Vitamin AngelsDaniel 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 UniversityBruce Shields, MD, Chair Emeritus, Yale Department of OphthalmologyKuldev Singh, MD, MPH, Professor of Ophthalmology, Stanford University School of MedicineAjit Sinha, MBBS, Founder and Director, AB Eye Institute; Former President, All India Ophthalmological SocietyPooja Sinha, MBBS, Ophthalmologist, AB Eye Institute, Patna, IndiaSatyajit Sinha, MBBS, Ophthalmologist, AB

Eye Institute, Patna, IndiaD. Scott Smith, MD, MSc, DTM & H, Chief of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Kaiser Redwood City HospitalJanice K. Smith, MD, MPH, PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center for Training in International Health at UTMBGeorgia Sambunaris, MA, Senior Financial Markets Specialist, USAIDChris Stout, PsyD, Founding Director, Center for Global Initiatives; Clinical Professor, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at ChicagoJames 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 HospitalPhilippe Van Denbossche, Executive Director, Raising MalawiHarold Varmus, MD, President and Chief Executive, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center;

Former Director of the NIH; Nobel Prize RecipientSeth Wanye, MD, Ophthalmologist, Eye Clinic of Tamale Teaching Hospital, GhanaTanya Whitehead, PhD, Research Associate Professor, University of Missouri - Kansas CityDavid 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, CanadaDebrework Zewdie, Director, Global HIV/AIDS Program of the World Bank Human Development Network World Bank