[Telecentres] CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Global Health and Development Conference at Stanford

Jennifer Staple Jennifer.Staple at aya.yale.edu
Sun Apr 30 10:37:18 BST 2006


*Unite For Sight's Fourth Annual International Health Conference*
*Innovation, Advancement, and Best Practices in Achieving Global Goals*
*April 14-15, 2007 - Stanford University*

*How to submit an abstract for poster or oral presentation (DEADLINE 
JULY 15):* http://www.uniteforsight.org/2007_conference_posters.php

Please also feel free to forward this message to anyone who may be 
interested in attending or presenting.

*When:* April 14-15, 2007
*Where:* Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA
*Theme:* "Innovation, Advancement, and Best Practices To Achieve Global 
Goals"
*Who should attend?*Anyone interested in eye care, international health, 
medicine, health education, health promotion, public health, 
international service, nonprofits, or microenterprise
*Conference Goal: *To exchange ideas across disciplines about best 
practices in public health, medicine and research, and international 
health and development
*Register Today For A Reduced Rate! -* 
http://www.uniteforsight.org/2007_annual_conference.php

    * Join over 1,500 leaders, doctors, professionals, and students from
      across the world
    * More than 150 speakers about public health, international
      development, and eye care
    * Exchange ideas about best practices in achieving global goals to
      improve health and development
    * Participate in plenary sessions and breakout workshops


        Confirmed Speakers in Global Health, International Development,
        Public Health, Medicine, Health Policy and Advocacy Sessions
        <http://www.uniteforsight.org/2007_annual_conference.php#sec1>
        Confirmed Speakers in Global Eye Care and Research Sessions
        <http://www.uniteforsight.org/2007_annual_conference.php#sec2>


      Global Health, International Development, Public Health, Medicine,
      Health Policy and Advocacy

*Nancy Aossey*, President and CEO, International Medical Corps
*Ann Banchoff*, MSW, MPH, Program Director, Office of Community Health, 
Stanford University School of Medicine
*Daniel Bausch*, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Tulane University School 
of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
*Donna and Philip Berber*, Founders, Glimmer of Hope
*Terry Blaschke*, MD, Professor of Medicine and Molecular Pharmacology, 
Stanford University
*Susan Blumenthal*, MD, MPA, Former US Assistant Surgeon General, 
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown School of Medicine and 
Tufts University Medical Center
*Araceli Castro*, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Social Medicine; 
Program in Infectious Disease and Social Change, Harvard School of Medicine
*Stephen L. Cochi*, MD, MPH, Senior Advisor, Global Immunization 
Division, National Immunization Program, Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention
*Brenda Colatrella*, MBA, Senior Director, Office of Contributions, 
Merck & Co. Inc
*Sunita Dodani*, MD, MS, FCPS, PhD, Department of Epidemiology, Graduate 
School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh**
*Michael Doyle*, President and CEO, CHF International
*Kamran Elahian*, MS, Chairman, Co-Founder, Global Catalyst Partners; 
Co-Founder, Global Catalyst Foundation and Schools Online
*Christopher Elias*, MD, MPH, President of PATH
*Ulrick Gaillard*, JD, CEO of Batey Relief Alliance
*Gabriel Garcia*, MD, Professor of Medicine, Associate Dean of Medical 
School Admissions, Stanford University School of Medicine
*Adrienne Germain*, President, International Women's Health Coalition
*Maren Grainger-Monsen*, MD, Senior Research Scholar, Center for 
Biomedical Ethics, Stanford School of Medicine
*George Guimaraes*, President and CEO, Project Concern International
*Jessica Haberer*, MD, Research Advisor, Clinton Foundation
*John Hammock*, PhD, The Alexander N. McFarlane Associate Professor of 
Public Policy, Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition 
Science and Policy and The Fletcher School, Tufts University; Former 
Executive Director, Oxfam America; former Executive Director, ACCION 
International; Founder and Former Director, Feinstein International 
Famine Center, Tufts University; Consultant, Women's World Banking and USAID
*Lindsay M. Harris*, Managing Director, A Bridge for Africa Foundation
*Polly F Harrison*, PhD, Director, Alliance for Microbicide Development
*David Heymann*, MD, MPH, Former Executive Director for Communicable 
Diseases, World Health Organization
*Amreen Husain*, MD, Assistant Professor of Gynecologic Oncology, 
Stanford University
*Evaleen Jones*, MD, Founder, President and Medical Director, Child 
Family Health International; Clinical Assistant P
*Judith Justice*, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor of Medical Anthropology 
and Health Policy in Residence, Department of Epidemiology and 
Biostatistics, UCSF
*Mark W. Kline*, MD, President, Baylor International Pediatric AIDS 
Initiative; Professor of Pediatrics and Head, Section of Retrovirology, 
Baylor College of Medicine
*Jamie Mclaren Lachman*, Project Njabulo Director, Clowns Without Borders
*Ana Langer*, MD, President and CEO, EngenderHealth
*Brian Lehnen*, Executive Director and Co-Founder, Village Enterprise Fund
*Jane Maxwell*, Editor, Hesperian Foundation
*Robert Metcalf*, PhD, Professor Biological Sciences, California State 
University, Sacramento; Treasurer, Solar Cookers International
*Mini Murthy*, MD, MPH, MS, Assistant Professor of Practice,New York 
Medical College School of Public Health
*Thomas Novotny*, MD, MPH, Director of International Programs; Professor 
in Residence, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCSF School of Medicine
*Bjorg Palsdottir*, MPA, Consultant, Co-Founder and Associate Director 
of the Center for Global Health at New York Unive
*Philip Pizzo*, MD, Dean of Stanford University School of Medicine
*William W. Rankin*, PhD, President, Global AIDS Interfaith Alliance
*Farshad Rastegar*, MD, President and CEO, Relief International
*Ian Rawson*, Hopital Albert Schweitzer Haiti
*William Reese*, President and CEO, International Youth Foundation
*George Rupp*, PhD, President and CEO, International Rescue Committee
*Lisa Russell*, MPH, Filmmaker, Obstetric Fistula
*Harshad Sanghvi*, MD, Medical Director, Maternal and Neonatal Health 
Program, JHPIEGO
*Scott Sasser*, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency 
Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine
*Karen Sendelback*, President and CEO, Friends of the World Food Program
*Robert David Siegel*, MD, PhD, Department of Microbiology and 
Immunology, Program in Human Biology, and Center for African
*Lilit Simonyan*, MPA Candidate; Founder, Former CEO, International 
Director, Stepanavan Youth Center NGO Armenia
*Cathy Skoula*, Executive Director, Action Against Hunger-USA
*Jim Smith*, Executive Director, American International Health Alliance Inc
*Jeff Todd*, MS, JD, Vice President Programs and Public Health, Prevent 
Blindness America
*Landry Tsague*, MD, William H. Foege Fellow, Department of Global 
Health at Emory Rollins School of Public Health
*Paul Volberding*, MD, Professor and Vice Chair, UCSF Department of 
Medicine; Chief, Medical Service SF Veterans Affairs Medical Center; 
Co-Director, UCSF-GIVI Center for AIDS Research
*Karen White*, MBA, MPH, Senior Researcher, Institute for Global Health, 
UCSF
*Tanya Whitehead*, PhD, University of Missouri - Kansas City
*Elliott Wolfe*, MD, Consulting Professor of Medicine, Stanford 
University School of Medicine
*Derek Yach*, MBChB, MPH, Director of Rockefeller Foundation's Program 
on Global Health


      Global Eye Care and Research

*Robert Alexander*, MPH, PhD, National Eye Institute
*R. Rand Allingham*, MD, Professor of Ophthalmology; Director, Glaucoma 
Service, Duke University Eye Center
*Thomas Tontie Baah*, MD, Our Lady of Grace Catholic Hospital, Ghana
*Tom Beggins*, MD, Former Medical Director and Surgeon, Lusaka Eye 
Hospital, Zambia
*Sandy Block*, OD, Illinois College of Optometry
*Harry S. Brown*, MD, Founder and President, SEE International
*Donald Budenzv*, MD, MPH, Professor of Ophthalmology, Epidemiology, and 
Public Health, University of Miami Miller Sch
*James Clarke*, MD, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Crystal Eye 
Clinic, Ghana
*Pat Cross*, PhD, Professor and Associate Dean for Medical Student 
Research and Scholarship, Stanford School of Medicine
*Syril Dorairaj*, MD, Glaucoma Service at New York Eye & Ear Infirmary
*Gordon Douglas*, MD, Medical Director, Orbis International
*Peter Egbert*, MD, Professor, Stanford Department of Ophthalmology
*Ilene Gipson*, PhD, Professor of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School; 
Chair, Women's Eye Health Task Force Executive Committee
*Jasvir Grewal*, MD, Ophthalmologist, UK
*Heskel Haddad*, MD, New York Medical College
*Andrew Iwach*, MD, Glaucoma Research & Education Group, American 
Academy of Ophthalmology Committee of Secretaries
*Vasudev Kanade*, MD, St. Raphael's Hospital
*Moses Katabarwa*, MPH, PhD, Program Epidemiologist, River Blindness, 
Lymphatic Filariasis, and Schistosomiasis Programs, Carter Center
*Murali Krishnamurthy*, President, Sankara Eye Foundation
*Jacob Kumaresan*, MD, MPH, Dr.PH, President, International Trachoma 
Initiative
*Mark Lieberman*, MD, Founder and Medical Director, Tibet Vision Project
*Michael Marmor*, MD, Professor of Ophthalmology, Stanford University
*Roger Martin*, Allergan/Lumigan Glaucoma Screening Activist
*Stephen McLeod*, MD, Theresa M. and Wayne M. Caygill MD Endowed Chair; 
Associate Professor and Interim Chairman, Department of Ophthalmology, 
University of California San Francisco
*Eydie Miller*, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Scheie Eye Institute, 
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
*Jennifer Peterson*, Country Director, Guinea and Sierra Leone, Helen 
Keller International
*Alejandro Ramirez Magana*, Director General, Cinepolis
*Gullapalli N. Rao*, MD, President, International Agency for the 
Prevention of Blindness; Distinguished Chair of Eye Health, L.V. Prasad 
Eye Institute
*Hannah Reddick*, Guinea Program Assistant, Helen Keller International
*Alan Robin*, MD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Wilmer Eye 
Institute, Johns Hopkins Hospital
*Alfredo A. Sadun*, MD, PhD, Floral Thornton Chair of Vision Research, 
Professor of Ophthalmology and Neurological Surgery, University of 
Southern California
*William Selezinka*, MD, Retired Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology, UCSD
*Richard D. Semba*, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Wilmer Eye Institute, 
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
*Chirag Shah*, MD, MPH, Wills Eye Hospital
*Val Shestopalov*, PhD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, Bascom 
Palmer Eye Institute
*Kuldev Singh*, MD, Professor of Ophthalmology, Stanford University
*Pooja Sinha*, MBBS, Ophthalmologist, AB Eye Institute, Patna, India
*Satyajit Sinha*, MBBS, Ophthalmologist, AB Eye Institute, Patna, India
*Bruce Spivey*, MD, President, International Council of Ophthalmology
*Bradley R. Straatsma*, MD, JD, President International Council of 
Ophthalmology Foundation; Professor Emeritus, Jules Stein Eye Institute, 
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
*Glenn Strauss*, MD, Vice President of International Health Care and 
Programs, Mercy Ships International
*Christopher Ta*, MD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, Stanford 
University
*Shachar Tauber*, MD, Director of Ophthalmology Research, Cornea and 
Refractive Surgery, Department of Ophthalmology and Optometry, St. 
John's Hospital and Clinics
*Ken Tuck*, MD, Past President of American Academy of Ophthalmology
*R. Venkatesh*, DO, DNB, Deputy CMO, Aravind Eye Hospital, Pondicherry, 
India
*Martin Wand*, MD, Chairman, American Academy of Ophthalmology National 
Glaucoma Project
*Seth Wanye*, MD, The Eye Clinic of Tamale Teaching Hospital, Ghana

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