[Telecentres] CALL FOR ABSTRACTS DEADLINE: Public Health and International Development Conference at Stanford

[Jennifer Staple]

_*Innovation, Advancement, and Best Practices To Achieve Global Goals
**Unite For Sight's Fourth Annual International Health Conference*_
*    APRIL 14-15, 2007 - STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, 
CALIFORNIA, USA

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        Abstract Categories:

   1. International Medicine and International Health
   2. Public Health
   3. Eye Care
   4. Scientific and Medical Research
   5. Advocacy and Health Policy
   6. Social innovation and entrepreneurship
   7. International Development

*Register Today For A Reduced Rate! (Current Rate is $35 Students/$55 
All Others - *_RATE INCREASES AFTER July 15_** 
http://www.uniteforsight.org/2007_annual_conference.php

*When:* April 14-15, 2007
*Where:* Stanford University School of Medicine, 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.  Conference topics range from/ "The Right to 
Health: Towards Social Inclusion and Universal Health Care in Latin 
America"/ and /"Antiretroviral Drugs and Issues of Drug Access and 
Quality in the Developing World"/ to /"Global Progress in Preventing the 
Burden of Blindness and Other Diseases Caused by Measles and Rubella"/ 
and /"Once I Was Blind....The Challenges of Eye Care in Ghana"/**

    * Join over 1,500 leaders, doctors, professionals, and students from
      5 continents
    * More than 150 speakers about eye care, public health,
      international development, entrepreneurship, microfinance, policy
      and advocacy, bioethics, and medicine
    * Exchange ideas about best practices to achieve global goals in
      health and development


        Confirmed Speakers in Global Health, International Development,
        Public Health, Medicine, Health Policy and Advocacy Sessions
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        Confirmed Speakers in Global Eye Care and Research Sessions
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      Global Health, International Development, Public Health, Medicine,
      Health Policy and Advocacy**

*Nancy Aossey*, President and CEO, International Medical Corps**
**"*Project ECHO: Telemedicine Extension For Community Healthcare 
Outcomes," **Sanjeev Arora, *MD, Executive Vice Chairman, Department of 
Medicine, University of New Mexico School of Medicine*
"Infectious Diseases and Human Rights: Making Research Matter," Daniel 
Bausch*, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Tulane University School of 
Public Health and Tropical Medicine
**"*Social Investing and Entrepreneurship in the Business of 
International Development," **Philip Berber*, Founders, A Glimmer of 
Hope Foundation
*Stephen Bezruchka*, MD, MPH, Senior Lecturer, University of Washington 
School of Public Health and Community Medicine
*"Insecticide-Treated Bednets in Mass Disease Control and Elimination 
Campaigns," Brian Blackburn*, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, 
Infectious Diseases, Stanford School of Medicine
*"Health Care in Georgia," Trish Blair*, MD, President, A Call To Serve 
International
*"Antiretroviral Drugs and Issues of Drug Access and Quality in the 
Developing World," Terry Blaschke*, MD, Professor of Medicine and 
Molecular Pharmacology, Stanford University
*"Critical Health Issues in the 21st Century," Susan Blumenthal*, MD, 
MPA, Former US Assistant Surgeon General, Clinical Professor of 
Psychiatry at Georgetown School of Medicine and Tufts University Medical 
Center
**"*Implementation of Adolescent Sexual Health Education in El 
Salvador,"* *Gabriel Brat, *MD Candidate, Stanford University School of 
Medicine*
"Creating a Rural Learning Environment in a Rural School in South 
India," Mason Byles*, former executive at Hewlett Packard
*"The Right To Health: Towards Social Inclusion and Universal Health 
Care in Latin America," Arachu Castro*, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor of 
Social Medicine; Program in Infectious Disease and Social Change, 
Harvard School of Medicine
*"Leprosy Rehabilitation in India," Robert A. Chase, *MD, Emile Holman 
Professor of Surgery Emeritus, Stanford University School of Medicine
*"Global Progress in Preventing the Burden of Blindness and Other 
Diseases Caused by Measles and Rubella," Stephen L. Cochi*, MD, MPH, 
Senior Advisor, Global Immunization Division, National Immunization 
Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
*Alex Counts,* President and CEO, Grameen Foundation USA
*"Passing on the Gift: Heifer's Approach to Sustainable Development and 
Program Expansion," Jim DeVries*, MD, Senior Vice President of Programs, 
Heifer International
**"*Cardiovascular Risk Factors in South Asian Immigrants: Apo A-I Gene 
Mutations," ***Sun*ita Dodani*, MD, MS, FCPS, PhD, Department of 
Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh
*Kamran Elahian*, MS, Chairman, Co-Founder, Global Catalyst Partners; 
Co-Founder, Global Catalyst Foundation and Schools Online
*"Public Private Partnerships to Advance Technologies for Neglected 
Disease," Christopher Elias*, MD, MPH, President of PATH 
*"The Ground Meat Parable: Real-Life Lessons From Africa For 
International Volunteers," Valda Ford, *MPH, MS, RN, Director, Community 
and Multicultural Affairs, University of Nebraska Medical Center
*"The Dominican Bateyes: Humanitarian Crisis on the Sugar Cane 
Plantations," Ulrick Gaillard*, JD, CEO of Batey Relief Alliance
*"Advocacy and Community Health," Gabriel Garcia*, MD, Professor of 
Medicine, Associate Dean of Medical School Admissions, Stanford 
University School of Medicine
*"With Women Worldwide: Sexual and Reproductive Rights and Health to End 
HIV/AIDS," Adrienne Germain*, President, International Women's Health 
Coalition
*"Hold Your Breath: Cultural Competency," Maren Grainger-Monsen*, MD, 
Senior Research Scholar, Center for Biomedical Ethics, Stanford School 
of Medicine
*"The War on AIDS - Integration Equals Impact," George Guimaraes*, 
President and CEO, Project Concern International
*"HIV/AIDS in China," Jessica Haberer*, MD, Research Advisor, Clinton 
Foundation
*Lee Hall, *MD, PhD, Chief, Parasitology and International Programs 
Branch, NIAID Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
*"Health As If People Mattered: Development With A Human Face," 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
*"Fair Trade and the Dignity of Work in Rural African Communities," 
Lindsay M. Harris*, Managing Director, A Bridge for Africa Foundation
*Polly F Harrison*, PhD, Director, Alliance for Microbicide Development
*"Interplast:  Using Innovative Technology to Improve Surgical Care in 
Developing Countries," Susan Hayes,* President and CEO, Interplast
*"Dilemmas in Public Health," David Heymann*, MD, MPH, Former Executive 
Director for Communicable Diseases, World Health Organization
*Ralf Hotchkiss, *PhD, Co-Founder, Chief Engineer and Principal 
Instructor, Whirlwind Wheelchair International
*Amreen Husain*, MD, Assistant Professor of Gynecologic Oncology, 
Stanford University
*Roy Jacobstein, *MD, MPH, Medical Director, EngenderHealth; Director, 
ACQUIRE Project
*Evaleen Jones*, MD, Founder, President and Medical Director, Child 
Family Health International; Clinical Assistant Professor, Stanford 
University School of Medicine
*Judith Justice*, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor of Medical Anthropology 
and Health Policy in Residence, Department of Epidemiology and 
Biostatistics, UCSF
*"The HIV/AIDS Pandemic, Community Response, and Disease Specific 
Activism," David Katzenstein, MD, *Professor, Division of Infectious 
Disease, Stanford University School of Medicine
*"Pediatric AIDS: Worlds Apart," Mark W. Kline*, MD, President, Baylor 
International Pediatric AIDS Initiative; Professor of Pediatrics and 
Head, Section of Retrovirology, Baylor College of Medicine
*"Addressing the Reproductive Health of Women and Girls Displaced by 
Conflict and Natural Disasters," Sandra Krause*, MPH, BSN, Reproductive 
Health Project Director, Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children
**"*Beyond Firewood: Fuel Alternatives and Protection Strategies for 
Displaced Women and Girls,"* *Sandra Krause*, MPH, BSN, Reproductive 
Health Project Director, Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children
*"Partnerships in Public Health," Jacob Kumaresan*, MD, MPH, Dr.PH, 
President, International Trachoma Initiative
*"Healing Through Laughter - An Innovative Psychosocial Response to the 
HIV/AIDS Crisis in Southern Africa," Jamie Mclaren Lachman*, Project 
Njabulo Director, Clowns Without Borders
*"Trends and Successes of the Global AIDS Epidemic," Peter R. Lamptey*, 
MD, DrPH, President, Family Health International Institute for HIV/AIDS
*"Women and Health," Ana Langer*, MD, President and CEO, EngenderHealth
*"Global Food Systems: Does How We Eat Threaten Food Security For 
Low-Income Countries?" Robert S. Lawrence*, MD, Edyth H. Schoenrich 
Professor of Preventive Medicine and Associate Dean for Professional 
Practice and Programs; Director, Center for a Livable Future, Johns 
Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
*"An Effective Model of Rural Microfinance," Brian Lehnen*, Executive 
Director and Co-Founder, Village Enterprise Fund
*Fiona Macaulay,* President, Making Cents International
*Jane Maxwell*, Editor, Hesperian Foundation
*Carol Medlin, PhD, MPA,* Senior Researcher, Institute for Global 
Health, UCSF
*"Solar Cooking and Solar Water Pasteurization - Addressing Two Basic 
Needs in Developing Countries," Robert Metcalf*, PhD, Professor 
Biological Sciences, California State University, Sacramento; Treasurer, 
Solar Cookers International
*John McGoldrick, *Executive Vice President, Bristol-Myers Squibb*
"Is Women's Health A Human Right?" Mini Murthy*, MD, MPH, MS, Assistant 
Professor of Practice,New York Medical College School of Public Health
*"The Emergence of a New Type of Physician: Lessons Learned From 
International Experiences," Andre-Jacques Neusy*, MD, DTM&H, Associate 
Professor of Medicine; Director of Center for Global Health, New York 
University School of Medicine
*"Innovations in Global Health Education," Thomas Novotny*, MD, MPH, 
Director of International Programs; Professor in Residence, Epidemiology 
and Biostatistics, UCSF School of Medicine
*"From Strong Innovative Programs to Strong Innovative Organizations," 
Bjorg Palsdottir*, MPA, Consultant, Co-Founder and Associate Director of 
the Center for Global Health at New York University
*"The Polio Eradication Partnership: A Model For Public-Private 
Partnership," Carol Pandak,* Manager, Division of PolioPlus, The Rotary 
Foundation of Rotary International
*"Exploring Reproductive and Sexual Health With Liberian Refugee Women," 
Rena Patel*, MPhil, BA, MD Candidate, Stanford School of Medicine
**"*Growing Big Babies: A Positive Deviance Approach to Nutritional 
Support for Pregnant Women in the Republic of Guinea*,***" ***Jenni*fer 
Peterson*, Country Director, Guinea and Sierra Leone, Helen Keller 
International
*Philip Pizzo*, MD, Dean of Stanford University School of Medicine
*Jonathan D. Quick*, MD, MPH, President & Chief Executive Officer, 
Management Sciences for Health
*"Delivering HIV Prevention and Care Services to Rural African Villages 
Through Christian and Muslim Religious Groups," William W. Rankin*, PhD, 
President, Global AIDS Interfaith Alliance
*Farshad Rastegar*, MD, President and CEO, Relief International
*"Addressing the Root Causes of Disease in Haiti," Ian Rawson*, Hopital 
Albert Schweitzer Haiti
*William Reese*, President and CEO, International Youth Foundation
*"To Replant the Uprooted: Toward A Shared Vision of Health 
Communities," George Rupp*, PhD, President and CEO, International Rescue 
Committee
*"Love, Labor, Loss: A Film on Obstetric Fistula," Lisa Russell*, MPH, 
Filmmaker
*"Education in Africa: Foreign Aid to the Rescue?" *Joel Samoff, 
Consulting Professor, Center for African Studies, Stanford University
*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
*"Ensuring Equitable Access to Skilled Maternity Care" Jill Sheffield*, 
President, Family Care International
*Robert David Siegel*, MD, PhD, Department of Microbiology and 
Immunology, Program in Human Biology, and Center for African Studies, 
Stanford University
*Lilit Simonyan*, MPA Candidate; Founder, Former CEO, International 
Director, Stepanavan Youth Center NGO Armenia
*"Medicine in Vietnam: Past, Present, and Future," Peter A. Singer*, MD, 
Chairman, East Meets West Foundation; Professor of Clinical Medicine, 
Chief, Clinical Endocrinology, Keck School of Medicine, University of 
Southern California
*"Basic Pathology and Immunology of Leprosy," David M. Scollard, *MD, 
PhD, Chief, Research Pathology, National Hansen's Disease Programs, 
Louisiana State University
*Cathy Skoula*, Executive Director, Action Against Hunger-USA
*"Travel Medicine: Preparing For A Trip & Evaluating The Ill Returned 
Traveler," D. Scott Smith*, MD, MSc, DTM&H, Chief of Infectious Disease 
& Geographic Medicine, Kaiser Redwood City Hospital
*"Jade Ribbon Campaign: Uniting the World To Eliminate Hepatitis B and 
Liver Cancer," Samuel So,* MD, Lui Hac Minh Professor of Surgery; 
Director, Asian Liver Center; Director, Liver Cancer Program, Stanford 
University School of Medicine
*Jim Smith*, Executive Director, American International Health Alliance Inc
*Jessie Stone*, MD, Director, Soft Power Heath, Uganda
*James Toole, *PhD, President, Compass Institute; Professor, School of 
Social Work, College of Human Ecology, University of Minnesota
*"Global HIV Prevention From Mother to Child: Challenges for Low 
Resource Settings," Landry Tsague*, MD, William H. Foege Fellow, 
Department of Global Health at Emory Rollins School of Public Health
*"Global Health Ethics in the New Millenium, Evolving Concepts," Anvar 
Velji*, MD, Treasurer, Global Health Education Consortium; Chief of 
Infectious Disease at Kaiser Permanente, South Sacramento; Clinical 
Professor, University of California at Davis
*"Advances and Ongoing Challenges in HIV Therapy," 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
*"Community Programs With Vision," David Werner, PhD, *Co-Founder, 
Director of HealthWrights; Visiting Professor, Boston University 
International School of Public Health; Author, "Where There Is No Doctor"
*Karen White*, MBA, MPH, Senior Researcher, Institute for Global Health, 
UCSF
*"Developing A Regional School of Nursing in South Africa," Tanya 
Whitehead*, PhD, University of Missouri - Kansas City
*Elliott Wolfe*, MD, Consulting Professor of Medicine, Stanford 
University School of Medicine
*"Leadership of Global Health NGOs," Derek Yach*, MBChB, MPH, Director 
of Rockefeller Foundation's Program on Global Health


      Global Eye Care and Research**

*"Logistics of Mass Drug Administration, The Case of Azithromycin For 
Trachoma Control," Sam Abbenyi,* MS, MSc, Director, Program Planning and 
Analysis, International Trachoma Initiative
*R. Rand Allingham*, MD, Professor of Ophthalmology; Director, Glaucoma 
Service, Duke University Eye Center
*"Eye Care in Ghana, The Challenges and Way Forward," Thomas Tontie 
Baah*, MD, Our Lady of Grace Catholic Hospital, Ghana
*"Progress Towards Affordable Vision Correction: New Appropriate 
Technology and Clinical Methodology," Ian B. Berger*, M.D., M.P.H. 
Dr.PH, Founding President, InFOCUS
*Tom Beggins*, MD, Former Medical Director and Surgeon, Lusaka Eye 
Hospital, Zambia
*Sandy Block*, OD, Illinois College of Optometry
*"Cataracts in Developing Countries: A Humanitarian Emergency," Harry S. 
Brown*, MD, Founder and President, SEE International
*"Glaucoma in Africa: What We Know and What We Need To Know," Donald 
Budenz*, MD, MPH, Professor of Ophthalmology, Epidemiology, and Public 
Health, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
*"Cornea Transplant Needs and Barriers in Ghana," 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
*"Ocular Leprosy: Results From A Seven Year Longitudinal Study," 
Ebenezer Daniel*, M.B.B.S.M.S.D.O.M.P.H.M.A.M.S, Division of Ocular 
Immunology, Department of Ophthalmology, The Johns Hopkins University 
School of Medicines
*Osei Darkwa*, PhD, MCSE, CCNA, Founder and President, Ghana Computer 
Literacy and Distance Education; Founder, Asante Akim Multipurpose 
Community Telecentre; Unite For Sight Ghana Program Coordinator
*Syril Dorairaj*, MD, Glaucoma Service at New York Eye & Ear Infirmary
**"*Sustainable Eye Care in the Developing World with ORBIS," ***Go*rdon 
Douglas*, MD, Medical Director, Orbis International
*"Eye Health Integration; 'A New Vision For The Future," Michael R. 
Duenas*, OD, Health Scientist/Project Officer, Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention 
and Health Promotion, Division of Diabetes Translation and National 
Vision Program
*"What I Have Learned About Glaucoma Management in Ghana," Peter 
Egbert*, MD, Professor, Stanford Department of Ophthalmology
*"Optometric and Ophthalmological Cooperation in Education in the 
Developing World," Jay Enoch*, OD, PhD, Professor of the Graduate 
School; Dean Emeritus, School of Optometry, Berkeley School of Optometry
*"International Trachoma Initiative - Public/Private Partnership To 
Eradicate Blinding Trachoma," Joe Feczko*, MD, Vice President, Pfizer 
Inc., Executive Vice President, Pfizer Global Research and Development, 
and President, Worldwide Development
*"Women and Eye Disease," Ilene Gipson*, PhD, Professor of 
Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School; Chair, Women's Eye Health Task 
Force Executive Committee
*"A UK Ophthalmologist's India Eye Care Experience," Jasvir Grewal*, MD, 
Ophthalmologist, UK
*"Eye Health Promotion in Southern Rwanda," Egide Gisagara, *Medical 
Student, National University of Rwanda
*Advances in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Retinopathy of Prematurity," 
William Good*, MD
*"River Blindness Control and Elimination Programs," Ken Gustavsen, 
*Manager, Global Product Donations, Merck & Co., Inc
*"Nutritional Factors in the Development of Cataracts,"* *Heskel 
Haddad*, MD, New York Medical College
*"Globalization of Ophthalmology," Dunbar Hoskins,* MD, Executive Vice 
President, American Academy of Ophthalmology
*"Current Challenges in Glaucoma Management," Andrew Iwach*, MD, 
Glaucoma Research & Education Group, American Academy of Ophthalmology 
Committee of Secretaries
*Mohammed Kabir*, Optometrist, Kumasi School of Optometry, Ghana
*Vasudev Kanade*, MD, St. Raphael's Hospital
*"River Blindness Disease - Past, Present, and Future 
Control/Elimination," Moses Katabarwa*, BSc, MPH MA, PhD, Program 
Epidemiologist, River Blindness, Lymphatic Filariasis, and 
Schistosomiasis Programs, Carter Center**
*Murali Krishnamurthy*, President, Sankara Eye Foundation
*"Infinite Vision - The Story of Dr. V(enkataswamy) and the Aravind Eye 
Care System," Pavithra Krishnan*, Filmmaker**
*Bradford Lee*, MSc, MD Candidate, Stanford University**
*"Visioning Tibet," Marc Lieberman*, MD, Founder and Medical Director, 
Tibet Vision Project
*"Eye Disease and Art," Michael Marmor*, MD, Professor of Ophthalmology, 
Stanford University
*"Glaucoma and Volunteerism,"  Roger Martin*, Allergan/Lumigan Glaucoma 
Screening Activist
**"*Corneal Blindness in the Developing World: Impact and Therapeutic 
Challenges," ***Ste*phen McLeod*, MD, Theresa M. and Wayne M. Caygill MD 
Endowed Chair; Associate Professor and Interim Chairman, Department of 
Ophthalmology, University of California San Francisco
**"*Beyond Screening Camps in Southern India/Telemedicine-Assisted 
Vision Centers: Aravind's New Rural Community Eyecare Strategy," 
**Christine Melton*, MD, Friends of Aravind Association
*Eydie Miller*, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Scheie Eye Institute, 
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
*"Global Epidemiology of Childhood Blindness: Challenges for Public 
Health Ophthalmology," Mohammed Muhit*, MD, Clinical Research Fellow, 
International Centre for Eye Health, London School of Hygiene and 
Tropical Medicine
*"Sustainability and Eye Care Programs: Development of a Global 
Resource," Kovin Naidoo*, BSc, BOptomOD, MPH, Director International 
Centre for Eyecare Education in Africa****
*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
*"Entrepreneurship and Ophthalmic Equipment," Rizvi Rawoof*, Director, 
Optiquip Surgical, Sri Lanka
*Hannah Reddick*, Guinea Program Assistant, Helen Keller International
*Alan Robin*, MD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Wilmer Eye 
Institute, Johns Hopkins Hospital
*"An Epidemic of Blindness in Cuba: Lessons on Nutrition and 
Mitochondria," Alfredo A. Sadun*, MD, PhD, Floral Thornton Chair of 
Vision Research, Professor of Ophthalmology and Neurological Surgery, 
University of Southern California
*"Mission Impossible: A Day in the Life of a West African Mission Eye 
Clinic," Cathy Schanzer*, MD, Medical Director and Chief Surgeon, 
Southern Eye Associates, and Tom Lewis
**"*The Ukrainian Eye Project: A 14-Year Effort To Rehabilitate Vision 
Care Capabilities in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine,"* *William Selezinka*, 
MD, Retired Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology, UCSD
*"Eye Care in Chennai, India," T. Senthil*, MBBS, Consulting 
Ophthalmologist, Uma Eye Clinic, India
*Chirag Shah*, MD, MPH, Wills Eye Hospital
*"Identification of Pathogenic Mechanisms of Glaucoma By Systems 
Analysis of Diverse Types of Genome-Wide Data," Val Shestopalov*, PhD, 
Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
*"Does Screening for Glaucoma Make Sense in the Developing World?" 
Kuldev Singh*, MD, Professor of Ophthalmology, Stanford University
*"Forty Years of Community Ophthalmology in India," Ajit Sinha,* **MBBS, 
Ophthalmologist, AB Eye Institute, Patna, India; Former President, All 
India Ophthalmological Society*
"Role of Retinal Evaluation in Cataract Surgery," Pooja Sinha*, MBBS, 
Ophthalmologist, AB Eye Institute, Patna, India
*"Continental Diversities in Community Ophthalmology," Satyajit Sinha*, 
MBBS, Ophthalmologist, AB Eye Institute, Patna, India
*"The Strategic Reorganization of Community Directed Treatment With 
Ivermectin (CDTI) in Post-Conflict Settings: The Case of Sierra 
Leone,"*Mustapha Sonnie, Eye Care Technician, Helen Keller, Sierra Leone
*"International Ophthalmology: Structure and Function," Bruce Spivey*, 
MD, President, International Council of Ophthalmology
*"Education of Ophthalmologists and Allied Eye Care Providers: A 
Cornerstone of Preservation and Restoration of Vision Worldwide," 
Bradley R. Straatsma*, MD, JD, President International Council of 
Ophthalmology Foundation; Professor Emeritus, Jules Stein Eye Institute, 
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
*"From Enthusiasm to Effectiveness - Moving Forward in Liberia, West 
Africa," Glenn Strauss*, MD, Vice President of International Health Care 
and Programs, Mercy Ships International
*"Biominetic Artificial Cornea," Christopher Ta*, MD, Assistant 
Professor of Ophthalmology, Stanford University
*"Advances in Cornea Transplantation," Shachar Tauber*, MD, Director of 
Ophthalmology Research, Cornea and Refractive Surgery, Department of 
Ophthalmology and Optometry, St. John's Hospital and Clinics
*Jeff Todd*, MS, JD, Vice President Programs and Public Health, Prevent 
Blindness America
*"Project SCENE (Sister Congregations Enjoying New Eyesight)--Building 
on a Sister Diocese Relationship To Foster Eye Care Collaboration in the 
Caribbean," Kevin Treacy*, MD, Chief of Ophthalmology, St. Luke's 
Hospital; Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota Medical 
School-Duluth**
*"Eye Care Services in Northern Region, Ghana: The Role of NGOs" Seth 
Wanye*, MD, The Eye Clinic of Tamale Teaching Hospital, Ghana
*Jachin Williams*, Community Eye Care, LV Prasad Eye Institute, India
*M. Roy Wilson*, MD, Chancellor, University of Colorado HSC
*"The Glaucoma EyeCare Program:  How Do You Make a Difference in 
Glaucoma?" Richard Wilson*, MD, Glaucoma Service, Wills Eye Hospital

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