[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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