[Olpc-open] Fwd: [globalvillages] CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: International Health & Development Conference at Yale

Edward Cherlin echerlin at gmail.com
Sun Jul 8 21:54:29 EDT 2007


I don't see anyone from OLPC on the list of speakers for this conference.
Why not? The XO will have a huge impact on health.


**Join 2,000 conference attendees and 130 speakers for a stimulating
conference.
 Keynote Addresses By: Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, Dr. Sonia Sachs, Dr. Susan
Blumenthal, and Dr. Jim Yong Kim
  Plus More Than 130 Featured Speakers
 <http://uniteforsight.org/conference/2008/conf_speakers.php> *Call For
Abstracts *- DEADLINE JULY 15, 2007  - *
http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference/2008*

*Register For Conference* - EARLY BIRD RATE ($45 Students, $70 All Others)
*http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference/2008* REGISTER BY JULY 15th TO
SECURE LOWEST RATE

*Who should attend?* Anyone interested in international health, public
health, international development, medicine, eye care, nonprofits,
philanthropy, microfinance, social entrepreneurship, bioethics,
anthropology, health policy, advocacy, and public service.

*Keynote Addresses*

   - *Susan Blumenthal*, *MD, MPA, Former **U.S. Assistant Surgeon
   General; Senior Advisor For Health and Medicine; Former Deputy Assistant
   Secretary for Women's Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human
   Services; Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown School of Medicine
   and Tufts University Medical Center*
   - *Jim Yong Kim,* *MD, PhD, Co-Founder, Partners in Health; Director,
   François Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights; **François
   Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights,** Harvard School
   of Public Health; Chair, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical
   School; Chief of the Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities,
   Brigham and Women's Hospital;  Former HIV/AIDS Director at World Health
   Organization*
   **
   - *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 Sachs*, *MD, MPH, Health Coordinator, Millennium Villages*

*130 Featured Speakers (Listed Below Are The Speakers Confirmed Thus Far)*

   - *Ted M. Alemayhu, *Founder, Chairman and CEO, US Doctors For Africa
   - *Greg Allgood, *PhD, Director, Children's Safe Drinking Water,
   Procter & Gamble
   - *R. Rand Allingham, *MD, Professor of Ophthalmology; Director,
   Glaucoma Service, Duke University Eye Center
   - *Jared Ament,* MD, MPh, Clinical Research Fellow, Ophthalmolology &
   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 Medical Director, Worldwide Orphans
   Foundation (WWO); Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Weill Medical
   College of Cornell University
   - *Thomas Baah, *MD, MSc, Ophthalmologist, Our Lady of Grace Hospital,
   Ghana
   - *Michele Barry, *MD, FACP, Professor of Medicine and Global Health
   Director, Office of International Health; Chief, General Medicine Firm, Yale
   University School of Medicine
   - *Georges Benjamin,* MD, Executive Director, American Public Health
   Association
   - *Paul Berman, *OD, FAAO, Senior Global Clinical Advisor and Founder,
   Special Olympics Lions Clubs, International Opening Eyes
   - *Terry Blaschke, *MD, Professor of Medicine and of Molecular
   Pharmacology (Active Emeritus), Stanford University School of Medicine
   - *Neil Boothby, *EdD, Professor of Clinical Population and Family
   Health; Director, Program on Forced Migration and Health, Mailman School of
   Public Health
   - *Philippe van den Bossche,* Executive Director, Raising Malawi
    - *Harry S. Brown, *MD, Founder, Surgical Eye Expeditions (SEE)
   International
   - *Donald Budenz, *MD, MPH, Professor of Ophthalmology, Epidemiology,
   and Public Health, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
   - *Michael Cappello,* MD, Professor of Pediatrics and Epidemiology and
   Public Health; Director, Program in International Child Health; Co-Director,
   International Adoption Clinic, Yale University School of Medicine
   - *Emily Moore and Mark Carlson, *PhD, Adjunct Professor, Sociology,
   San Diego State University
   - *James Clarke,* MD, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Crystal
   Eye Clinic, Ghana
   - *Susan Day, *MD, Chair and Program Director, Pediatric Ophthalmology
   and Strabismus, California Pacific Medical Center
   - *Syril Dorairaj, *MD, Clinical Research Fellow, Glaucoma Associates
   of New York, The New York Eye and Ear Infirmary
    - *Margaret Duah-Mensah, *Ophthalmic Nurse, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana
   - *Andy Ellner,* MD, Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative
   - *Sheri Fink, *MD, PhD, Kaiser Media Fellow in Global Health;
   Visiting Scientist, Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human
   Rights, Harvard School of Public Health; Senior Fellow, Harvard Humanitarian
   Initiative
   - *Susan Hall Forster, *MD, Associate Clinical Professor, Department
   of Medical Studies, Department of Ophthalmology, Yale School of Medicine;
   Chief, Ophthalmology, Yale University Health Services
   - *David Friedman,* MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and
   International Health, Johns Hopkins University
   - *Valentin Fuster, *MD, PhD, Director, The Zena and Michael A. Wiener
   Cardiovascular Institute; Director, The Marie-Josee and Henry R. Kravis
   Center for Cardiovascuclar Health; Richard Gorlin, MD/Heart Research
   Foundation Professor, Mount Sinai; Past-President, American Heart
   Association; President-elect, World Heart Federation
    - *Urick Gaillard, *JD, Founder and Executive Director, The Batey
   Relief Alliance
   - *Gabriel Garcia,* MD, Professor of Medicine, Associate Dean of
   Medical School Admissions, Stanford University School of Medicine
   - *Nora Groce,* PhD, Associate Professor and Director, Yale/WHO
   Collaborating Centre, Global Health Division, Yale School of Public Health
   - *Michael Gyasi, *MD, Ophthalmologist and Director of the Bawku Eye
   Care Program, Ghana
   - *Heskel M. Haddad,* MD, Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology, New
   York Medical College
   - *Leon Herndon, *MD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Duke
   University Eye Center
   - *Ibrahim Jabr,* Interim President, International Trachoma Initiative
   - *Rosemary Janiszewski, *MS, CHES, Deputy Director, Office of
   Communication, Health Education and Public Liaison; Director, National Eye
   Health Eucation Program, National Eye Institute (NEI), National Institutes
   of Health
   - *Evaleen Jones, *MD, Founder, President and Medical Director, Child
   Family Health International; Clinical Assistant Professor, Stanford
   University School of Medicine
   - *Dean Karlan, *PhD, President and Founder of Innovations for Poverty
   Action; Assistant Professor of Economics, Yale University
   - *Zachary Kaufman, *MPhil in International Relations; DPhil Candidate
   in International Relations, University of Oxford; JD Candidate, Yale
   University Law School
   - *Kaveh Khoshnood,* PhD, Assistant Professor in Public Health
   Practice, Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of
   Public Health
   - *Doug Lawrence, *Vice President/General Manager, BD Medical -
   Ophthalmic Systems
   - *Fiona Macaulay, *President, Making Cents International
   - *Carolyn Makinson, *PhD, Executive Director, Women's Commission for
   Refugee Women and Children
   - *Tshepo Mbalambi, *BSc, Med Sci, MBcHB Candidate, University of
   Ghana School of Medicine
   - *John McGoldrick,* Senior Vice President, International AIDS Vaccine
   Initiative (IAVI)
   - *Christine Melton,* MD, MS, Friends of Aravind Association
   - *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
   - *Thomas Novotny, *MD, MPH, Director of International Programs;
   Professor in Residence, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCSF School of
   Medicine
   - *Edward O'Neil Jr, *MD, Founder, Omni Med; Author, Awakening
   Hippocrates: Primer on Health, Poverty, and Global Service, and A Practical
   Guide to Global Health Service
   - *Cliff OCallahan, *MD, PhD, Pediatric Faculty, Middlesex Hospital
   Family Practice Program; Chair, AAP Section on International Child Health
   - *Adeyemi Oshodi,* PATH
   - *Elijah Paintsil, *MD, Associate Research Scientist, Department of
   Pediatrics, Yale School of Medicine
   - *Matthew Paul, *MD, Danbury Eye Physicians and Surgeons
   - *Steven C. Phillips, *MD, MPH, Medical Director, Global Issues and
   Projects, Exxon Mobil Corporation
   - *Louis Pizzarello, *MD, MPH, Secretary General, International Agency
   for the Prevention of Blindness
   - *Thomas Quinn, *MD, Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health
   - *Nathan Radcliffe,* MD, Glaucoma Service at New York Eye & Ear
   Infirmary
   - *Ian Rawson,* MD, CEO/Directeur General, Hopital Albert Schweitzer
   Haiti
   - *William Reese*, President and CEO, International Youth Foundation
   - *Ilya Rozenbuam, *MD, GANY Glaucoma Fellow, New York Eye and Ear
   Institute
   - *Leonard Rubenstein,* Executive Director, Physicians for Human
   Rights
    - *Jennifer Ruger, *PhD, MSc, Assistant Professor, Division of Global
   Health, Yale School of Public Health; Co-Director of the Yale/World Health
   Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Health Promotion, Policy and
   Research; Interdisciplinary Research Methods Core Investigator, Center for
   Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS
   - *Lisa Russell, *MPH, Filmmaker
   - *Sarwat Salim,* MD, Ophthalmologist
   - *Sarang Samal, *Kalinga Eye Hospital, Orissa, India
   - *Georgia Sambunaris, *MA
   - *Werner Schultink, *MD, Chief Child Development and Nutrition,
   UNICEF
   - *Chirag Shah, *MD, Chief Resident, Wills Eye Hospital
   - *Bruce Shields, *MD, Professor of Ophthalmology, Chairman Emeritus,
   Department of Ophthalmology, Yale University School of Medicine
   - *Satyajit Sinha,* MBBS, Ophthalmologist, AB Eye Institute, Patna,
   India
   - *D. Scott Smith,* MD, MSc, DTM&H, Chief of Infectious Disease and
   Geographic Medicine, Kaiser Redwood City Hospital
   - *Eliot Sorel, *MD, D.L.F.A.P.A. Global Health, Health Services
   Management, and Leadership, The George Washington University School of
   Public Health; Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences School of Medicine, GWU;
   Chairman, Founder, Conflict Management Section WPA
   - *Kari Stoever,* Senior Program Officer, Neglected Tropical Diseases,
   Sabin Vaccine Institute
   - *Glenn Strauss, *MD, Vice President of International Health Care and
   Programs, Mercy Ships, Int'l
   - *Robert Farris Thompson,* PhD, Col. John Trumbull Professor of the
   History of Art, Yale University
   - *Jamie Lachman and Tim Cunningham, *Clowns Without Borders
   - *James C. Tsai, *MD, Chair, Department of Ophthalmologist, Yale
   University School of Medicine
   - *Satya Verma, *OD, FAAO, Director, Community Eye Care, Pennsylvania
   College of Optometry
   - *Seth Wanye*, MD, Ophthalmologist, Eye Clinic of Tamale Teaching
   Hospital, Ghana
   - *Gavin Yamey,* MD, MRCP, Senior Editor, PLoS Medicine; Consulting
   Editor, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

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