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