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Early Bird Rate Increases After January 20th
GLOBAL HEALTH & INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE: Innovation,
Advancement, and Best Practices to Achieve Global Goals
Unite For Sight Fourth Annual International Health Conference
April 14-15, 2007 at Stanford University School of Medicine, California
http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference/2007/
*More Than 300 Renowned Speakers from North America, Africa, Asia, Latin
America, and Europe
*Join over 1,500 leaders, doctors, professionals, and students from 5
continents for an engaging exchange of ideas and best practices.
*When: *April 14-15, 2007
*Where:* Stanford University School of Medicine, California, USA
*Who should attend?*Anyone interested in eye care, international health,
medicine, health education, health promotion, public health,
international service, social entrepreneurship, nonprofits, or
microenterprise
*EARLY BIRD RATE INCREASES AFTER JANUARY 20: *Current Rate is $65
Students/$85 All Others
*COMPLETE CONFERENCE SCHEDULE WITH 300 SPEAKERS:
http://uniteforsight.org/conference/2007/index.php*
SPEAKER HIGHLIGHTS (45 OF THE 300 SPEAKERS) INCLUDE:
--"Millennium Development Goals, Partnerships, and Eye Care (By
Prepared Videotape)", JEFFREY SACHS, PhD, Director, Earth Institute at
Columbia University; Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development;
Professor of Health Policy and Management
--"Challenges in Public Health: From Smallpox and Polio Eradication
to SARS and Avian Influenza", DAVID HEYMANN, MD, MPH, Former Executive
Director for Communicable Diseases, World Health Organization
--"Public Private Partnerships to Advance Technologies for Neglected
Disease", CHRISTOPHER ELIAS, MD, MPH, President of PATH
--"The Right to Health: Towards Social Inclusion and Universal
Health Care in Latin America", ARACHU CASTRO, PhD, MPH, Assistant
Professor of Social Medicine, Academic Director; Program in Infectious
Disease and Social Change, Harvard Medical School / Partners in Heath
--"The War on AIDS - Integration Equals Impact", GEORGE GUIMARAES,
President and CEO, Project Concern International
--"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
--"The Neglected Tropical Diseases: New Promise For Their Control",
PETER HOTEZ, MD, PhD, Professor and Chairman, Department of Microbiology
and Tropical Medicine, The George Washington University
--"Microfinance and Health: New Synergies and Opportunities", ALEX
COUNTS, President, Grameen Foundation USA
--"Public Private Partnerships to Provide Safe Drinking Water in
Africa", GREG ALLGOOD, PhD, Director, Children's Safe Drinking Water,
Procter & Gamble
--"Infectious Diseases and Human Rights: Making Research Matter",
DANIEL BAUSCH, MD, MPH,&TM Associate Professor, Tulane University School
of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
--"Antiretroviral Drugs and Issues of Drug Access and Quality in the
Developing World", TERRY BLASCHKE, MD, Professor of Medicine and
Molecular Pharmacology, Stanford University
--"Medical Discovery and Social Justice: Linking Child Health with
Child Rights", PAUL WISE, MD, MPH, Richard E. Berhman Professor of Child
Health and Society, Stanford University
--"The HIV/AIDS Pandemic, Community Response and Disease Specific
Activism", DAVID KATZENSTEIN, Professor of Medicine, Infectious Disease,
Stanford University School of Medicine
--"Advocacy and Community Health", GABRIEL GARCIA, MD, Professor of
Medicine, Associate Dean of Medical School Admissions, Stanford
University School of Medicine
--"Engaging Students in International Health: A Case Study", ROBERT
DAVID SIEGEL, MD, PhD, Department of Microbiology and Immunology,
Program in Human Biology, and Center for African Studies, Stanford
University
--"The Essence of Communication in Medical Practice", ELLIOTT WOLFE,
MD, Consulting Professor of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine
--"Insecticide-Treated Bednets in Mass Disease Control and
Elimination Campaigns", BRIAN BLACKBURN, MD, Clinical Assistant
Professor, Infectious Diseases, Stanford School of Medicine
--"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
--"Travel Medicine: Preparing For A Trip & Evaluating The
Ill-Returned Traveler", D. SCOTT SMITH, MD, MSc, DTM&H, Chief of
Infectious Disease and Geographic Medicine, Kaiser Redwood City Hospital
--"Wilderness and Environmental Medicine", ERIC A. WEISS, MD, FACEP,
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine; Chair, Disaster Preparedness
Committee and Bioterrorism Taskforce; Director, Wilderness Medicine
Fellowship; Stanford University School of Medicine
--"Globalization and the Health Workforce: Historical Perspectives,
Future Challenges", TOM HALL, MD, DrPH, Department of Epidemiology and
Biostatistics, UCSF School of Medicine
--"Restricted Access to the Medical Literature: A Global Health
Crisis", GAVIN YAMEY, MD, MRCP, Senior Editor, PLoS Medicine; Consulting
Editor, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
--"Socially Responsible and Financially Just Global Health
Electives", EVALEEN JONES, MD, Founder, President and Medical Director,
Child Family Health International; Clinical Assistant Professor,
Stanford University School of Medicine
--"Technology Social Entrepreneurship", JIM FRUCHTERMAN, Chairman
and Founder, The Benetech Initiative
--"International Women's Health and Human Rights", ANNE FIRTH
MURRAY, Founding President, The Global Fund for Women; Consulting
Professor, Human Biology Program, Stanford University
--"The Challenge of Treating Complex Obstetric Fistula in Eritrea",
AMREEN HUSAIN, MD, Assistant Professor of Gynecologic Oncology, Stanford
University
--"Histology of the Eye", PAT CROSS, PhD, Professor and Associate
Dean for Medical Student Research and Scholarship, Stanford School of
Medicine
--"High Quality Eye Care To The Most Marginalized Populations: The
Challenges and Possible Solutions", GULLAPALLI N. RAO, MD, Chairman,
Board of Trustees and President, International Agency for the Prevention
of Blindness; Distinguished Chair of Eye Health, L.V. Prasad Eye Institute
--"Impossible Dreams - The First Ascent of the East Face of Mt.
Everest and Eradicating Blindness in Mountainous Asia", GEOFFREY TABIN,
MD, Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences; Director of the
Division of International Ophthalmology, John A. Moran Eye Center,
University of Utah; Co-Director and Founder, Himalayan Cataract Project
--"Eye Care at Buduburam Refugee Camp in Ghana", JAMES CLARKE., MD,
Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana
--"The Role of Student Volunteerism to Achieve Vision2020 in Ghana",
SETH WANYE, MD, The Eye Clinic of Tamale Teaching Hospital, Ghana
--"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
--"Problems With Glaucoma Care Delivery in a Developing Nation",
ALAN ROBIN, MD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Wilmer Eye
Institute, Johns Hopkins Hospital
--"What I Have Learned About Glaucoma Management in Ghana", PETER
EGBERT, MD, Professor, Stanford Department of Ophthalmology
--"Does Screening for Glaucoma Make Sense in the Developing World?",
KULDEV SINGH, MD, MPH, Professor of Ophthalmology, Director of Glaucoma
Service, Stanford University
--"Eye Disease and Art", MICHAEL MARMOR, MD, Professor of
Ophthalmology, Stanford University
--"Biominetic Artificial Cornea", CHRISTOPHER TA, MD, Assistant
Professor of Ophthalmology, Stanford University
--"The Globalization of Ophthalmology", DUNBAR HOSKINS, MD,
Executive Director, American Academy of Ophthalmology
--"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
--"The HIV Pandemic in the Developing World", JOHN MCGOLDRICK,
Executive Vice President, Bristol-Myers Squibb
--"A Global Perspective for Vision Research", PAUL SIEVING, MD, PhD,
Director, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health
--"Education in Africa: Foreign Aid to the Rescue?", JOEL SAMOFF,
Consulting Professor, Center for African Studies, Stanford University
--"Young Leaders In Action: Tomorrow's Leaders But Also Today's",
WILLIAM REESE, President and CEO, International Youth Foundation
--"Community Programs With Vision", DAVID WERNER, PhD, Co-Founder,
Director of HealthWrights (Workgroup for People's Health and Rights);
Visiting Professor at Boston University International School of Public
Health; Author, "Where There Is No Doctor"
--"Global Health Ethics in the New Millennium, Evolving Concepts",
ANVAR VELJI, MD, Co-Founder and Treasurer, Global Health Education
Consortium; Chief of Infectious Disease at Kaiser Permanente, South
Sacramento; Clinical Professor, University of California at Davis
Hundreds of Conference Sessions For Anyone Interested In:
*Global Health
*International Development
*Millennium Development Goals
*Public Health
*Overseas Volunteering
*Health and Human Rights
*Refugee Health
*Women's Health
*HIV/AIDS
*Infectious Disease
*Microfinance and Social Entrepreneurship
*Nonprofits
*Health in Africa
*Health in Asia
*Health in Latin America
*Global Eye Care and Vision 2020
*Glaucoma Symposium
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