CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Global Health and Development Conference at Stanford

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Innovation, Advancement, and Best Practices

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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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International Medicine and International Health

Public Health

Eye Care

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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

Confirmed

Speakers in Global Eye Care and Research Sessions

Global Health, International Development, Public Health,

Medicine, Health Policy and Advocacy

Aossey, President and CEO, International Medical

Corps

Ann Banchoff, MSW, MPH, Program Director, Office of

Community Health, Stanford University School of Medicine

Bausch, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Tulane

University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine

Donna and Philip Berber, Founders, Glimmer of Hope

"Insecticide-Treated Bednets in Mass Disease Control and

Elimination Campaigns," 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," Blumenthal,

MD, MPA, Former US Assistant Surgeon

General, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at town School of

Medicine and Tufts University Medical Center

"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," 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," L. Cochi,

MD, MPH, Senior Advisor, Global

Immunization Division, National Immunization Program, Centers for

Disease Control and Prevention

Jim DeVries, MD, Senior Vice President of Programs,

Heifer International

Sunita 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," Elias, MD, MPH, President of

PATH

"The Dominican Bateyes: Humanitarian Crisis on the Sugar Cane

Plantations," Ulrick Gaillard, JD, CEO of Batey Relief Alliance

"Advocacy and Community Health," , 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

Guimaraes, President and CEO, Project Concern

International

"HIV/AIDS in China," Haberer, MD, Research

Advisor, Clinton

Foundation

Hammock, PhD, The 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

M. , Managing Director, A Bridge for

Africa Foundation

Polly F on, PhD, Director, Alliance for

Microbicide Development

Heymann, MD, MPH, Former Executive Director for

Communicable Diseases, World Health Organization

Amreen Husain, MD, Assistant Professor of Gynecologic

Oncology, Stanford University

Evaleen , 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

"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," Krause,

MPH, BSN, Reproductive Health Project

Director, Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children

"Healing Through Laughter - An Innovative Psychosocial Response

to the HIV/AIDS Crisis in Southern Africa," Mclaren Lachman,

Project Njabulo Director,

Clowns Without Borders

R. Lamptey, MD, DrPH, President, Family Health

International Institute for HIV/AIDS

Ana Langer, MD, President and CEO, EngenderHealth

"Health and Human Rights," S. Lawrence, MD,

Edyth H. Schoenrich Professor

of Preventive Medicine and Associate Dean for Professional Practice and

Programs; Director, Center for a Livable Future, s Hopkins

Bloomberg School of Public Health

"An Effective Model of Rural Microfinance," Lehnen,

Executive Director and Co-Founder,

Village Enterprise Fund

Fiona Macaulay, President, Making Cents

International

Jane Maxwell, Editor, Hesperian Foundation

Metcalf, PhD, Professor Biological Sciences,

California State University, Sacramento; Treasurer, Solar Cookers

International

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

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," 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

"Exploring Reproductive and Sexual Health With Liberian Refugee

Women," Rena Patel, MPhil, BA, MD Candidate, Stanford School

of Medicine

Philip Pizzo, MD, Dean of Stanford University School

of Medicine

D. Quick, MD, MPH, President & Chief

Executive Officer, Management Sciences for Health

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

Reese, President and CEO, International Youth

Foundation

"To Replant the Uprooted: Toward A Shared Vision of Health

Communities," Rupp, PhD, President and CEO,

International

Rescue Committee

, MPH, Filmmaker, Obstetric Fistula

Harshad Sanghvi, MD, Medical Director, Maternal and

Neonatal Health Program, JHPIEGO

Sasser, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of

Emergency Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine

Sendelback, President and CEO, Friends of the

World Food Program

"Reducing Maternal Mortality in Three Low Resource Countries,"

Jill Sheffield, President, Family Care International

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

"Medicine in Vietnam: Past, Present, and Future," 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," M. Scollard,

MD, PhD, Chief, Research Pathology, National Hansen's Disease

Programs, Louisiana State University

Skoula, Executive Director, Action Against

Hunger-USA

D. , MD, MSc, DTM & H, Chief of

Infectious Disease & Geographic Medicine, Kaiser Redwood City

Hospital

Jim , Executive Director, American International

Health Alliance Inc

Jessie Stone, MD, Director, Soft Power Heath, Uganda

Landry Tsague, MD, 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

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

White, MBA, MPH, Senior Researcher, Institute

for Global Health, UCSF

Whitehead, PhD, University of Missouri - Kansas

City

Elliott Wolfe, MD, Consulting Professor of Medicine,

Stanford University School of Medicine

"Leadership of Global Health NGOs," Yach, MBChB,

MPH, Director of Rockefeller

Foundation's Program on Global Health

Global Eye Care and Research

, MPH, PhD, National Eye Institute

R. Rand Allingham, MD, Professor of Ophthalmology;

Director, Glaucoma Service, Duke University Eye Center

"Eye Care in Ghana, The Challenges and Way Forward,"

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

Harry S. Brown, MD, Founder and President, SEE

International

"Glaucoma in Africa: What We Know and What We Need To Know,"

Budenzv, MD, MPH, Professor of Ophthalmology,

Epidemiology, and Public Health, University of Miami School of

Medicine

"Cornea Transplant Needs and Barriers in Ghana," e,

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 , M.B.B.S.M.S.D.O.M.P.H.M.A.M.S,

Division of Ocular Immunology, Department of Ophthalmology, The s

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

Gordon , MD, Medical Director, Orbis

International

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,"

Egbert, MD, Professor, Stanford Department of

Ophthalmology

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

Jasvir Grewal, MD, Ophthalmologist, UK

"Advances in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Retinopathy of

Prematurity," 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

"Current Challenges in Glaucoma Management," 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,

Center

"Vitamins and Carotenoids in the Prevention of Blindness,"

Klaus Kraemer, MD, Secretary General, Sight and Life

Murali Krishnamurthy, President, Sankara Eye Foundation

"Infinite Vision - The Story of Dr. V(enkataswamy) and the

Aravind Eye Care System," Pavithra Krishnan, Filmmaker

Kumaresan, MD, MPH, Dr.PH, President,

International Trachoma Initiative

Bradford Lee, MSc, MD Candidate, Stanford University

Tom , Southern Eye Associates, Sierra Leone

"Visioning Tibet," Marc Lieberman, MD, Founder and

Medical Director,

Tibet Vision Project

"Eye Diseases of Artists: Van Gough, Monet, and Others,"

Marmor, MD, Professor of Ophthalmology,

Stanford University

, Allergan/Lumigan Glaucoma Screening

Activist

McLeod, MD, Theresa M. and Wayne M. Caygill MD

Endowed Chair; Associate Professor and Interim Chairman, Department of

Ophthalmology, University of California San Francisco

Melton, MD, Friends of Aravind Association

Eydie , 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

, Country Director, Guinea and Sierra

Leone, Helen Keller International

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, s 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

Schanzer, MD, Medical Director and Chief

Surgeon, Southern Eye Associates

"The Ukrainian Eye Project: A 14-Year Effort To

Rehabilitate Vision Care Capabilities in Ivano-ivsk, Ukraine,"

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

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

"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, 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," 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. 's Hospital and Clinics

Jeff Todd, MS, JD, Vice President Programs and Public

Health, Prevent Blindness America

Ken Tuck, MD, Past President of American Academy of

Ophthalmology

R. Venkatesh, DO, DNB, Deputy CMO, Aravind Eye

Hospital, Pondicherry, India

"Eye Care Services in Northern Region, Ghana: The Role of NGOs"

Seth Wanye, MD, The Eye Clinic of Tamale Teaching

Hospital, Ghana

Jachin , Community Eye Care, LV Prasad Eye

Institute, India

M. Roy , MD, Chancellor, University of Colorado

HSC

, MD, Gaucoma Service, Wills Eye

Hospital