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<div align="center"><b>Unite For Sight's Fourth Annual International
Health Conference</b><br>
<b>Innovation, Advancement, and Best Practices To Achieve Global Goals</b><br>
<b>April 14-15, 2007 - Stanford University</b><br>
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<p><strong>When:</strong> April 14-15, 2007<br>
<strong>Where:</strong> Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA<br>
<strong>Theme:</strong> "Innovation, Advancement, and Best Practices To
Achieve Global Goals"<br>
<strong>Who should attend?</strong>Anyone
interested in eye care, international health, medicine,
health education, health promotion, public health, international
service, nonprofits, or microenterprise<br>
<strong>Conference Goal: </strong>To
exchange ideas across disciplines about best practices in public
health, medicine and research, and international health and development<br>
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<li>Join over 1,500 leaders, doctors, professionals, and students
from across the world</li>
<li>More than 150 speakers about public health, international
development, and eye care</li>
<li>Exchange ideas about best practices in achieving global goals to
improve health and development</li>
<li>Participate in plenary sessions and breakout workshops</li>
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<h4 style="text-align: center;"><a style=""
href="http://www.uniteforsight.org/2007_annual_conference.php#sec1">Confirmed
Speakers in Global Health, International Development, Public Health,
Medicine, Health Policy and Advocacy Sessions</a><br>
<a style=""
href="http://www.uniteforsight.org/2007_annual_conference.php#sec2">Confirmed
Speakers in Global Eye Care and Research Sessions</a></h4>
<h3 id="sec1">Global Health, International Development, Public Health,
Medicine, Health Policy and Advocacy</h3>
<p><strong>Nancy Aossey</strong>, President and CEO, International
Medical Corps<br>
<strong>Ann Banchoff</strong>, MSW, MPH, Program Director, Office of
Community Health, Stanford University School of Medicine<br>
<strong>Daniel Bausch</strong>, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Tulane
University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine<br>
<strong>Donna and Philip Berber</strong>, Founders, Glimmer of Hope<br>
<strong>Terry Blaschke</strong>, MD, Professor of Medicine and
Molecular Pharmacology, Stanford University<br>
<strong>Susan Blumenthal</strong>, MD, MPA, Former US Assistant Surgeon
General, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown School of
Medicine and Tufts University Medical Center<br>
<strong>Araceli Castro</strong>, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor of
Social Medicine; Program in Infectious Disease and Social Change,
Harvard School of Medicine<br>
<strong>Stephen L. Cochi</strong>, MD, MPH, Senior Advisor, Global
Immunization Division, National Immunization Program, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention<br>
<strong>Brenda Colatrella</strong>, MBA, Senior Director, Office of
Contributions, Merck & Co. Inc<br>
<strong>Sunita Dodani</strong>, MD, MS, FCPS, PhD, Department of
Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh<strong></strong><br>
<strong>Michael Doyle</strong>, President and CEO, CHF International<br>
<strong>Kamran Elahian</strong>, MS, Chairman, Co-Founder, Global
Catalyst Partners; Co-Founder, Global Catalyst Foundation and Schools
Online<br>
<strong>Christopher Elias</strong>, MD, MPH, President of PATH<br>
<strong>Ulrick Gaillard</strong>, JD, CEO of Batey Relief Alliance<br>
<strong>Gabriel Garcia</strong>, MD, Professor of Medicine, Associate
Dean of Medical School Admissions, Stanford University School of
Medicine<br>
<strong>Adrienne Germain</strong>, President, International Women's
Health Coalition<br>
<strong>Maren Grainger-Monsen</strong>, MD, Senior Research Scholar,
Center for Biomedical Ethics, Stanford School of Medicine<br>
<strong>George Guimaraes</strong>, President and CEO, Project Concern
International<br>
<strong>Jessica Haberer</strong>, MD, Research Advisor, Clinton
Foundation<br>
<strong>John Hammock</strong>, PhD, The Alexander 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<br>
<strong>Lindsay M. Harris</strong>, Managing Director, A Bridge for
Africa Foundation<br>
<strong>Polly F Harrison</strong>, PhD, Director, Alliance for
Microbicide Development<br>
<strong>David Heymann</strong>, MD, MPH, Former Executive Director for
Communicable Diseases, World Health Organization<br>
<strong>Amreen Husain</strong>, MD, Assistant Professor of Gynecologic
Oncology, Stanford University<br>
<strong>Evaleen Jones</strong>, MD, Founder, President and Medical
Director, Child Family Health International; Clinical Assistant P<br>
<strong>Judith Justice</strong>, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor of
Medical Anthropology and Health Policy in Residence, Department of
Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCSF<br>
<strong>Mark W. Kline</strong>, MD, President, Baylor International
Pediatric AIDS Initiative; Professor of Pediatrics and Head, Section of
Retrovirology, Baylor College of Medicine<br>
<strong>Jamie Mclaren Lachman</strong>, Project Njabulo Director,
Clowns Without Borders<br>
<strong>Ana Langer</strong>, MD, President and CEO, EngenderHealth<br>
<strong>Brian Lehnen</strong>, Executive Director and Co-Founder,
Village Enterprise Fund<br>
<strong>Jane Maxwell</strong>, Editor, Hesperian Foundation<br>
<strong>Robert Metcalf</strong>, PhD, Professor Biological Sciences,
California State University, Sacramento; Treasurer, Solar Cookers
International<br>
<strong>Mini Murthy</strong>, MD, MPH, MS, Assistant Professor of
Practice,New York Medical College School of Public Health<br>
<strong>Thomas Novotny</strong>, MD, MPH, Director of International
Programs; Professor in Residence, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCSF
School of Medicine<br>
<strong>Bjorg Palsdottir</strong>, MPA, Consultant, Co-Founder and
Associate Director of the Center for Global Health at New York Unive<br>
<strong>Philip Pizzo</strong>, MD, Dean of Stanford University School
of Medicine<br>
<strong>William W. Rankin</strong>, PhD, President, Global AIDS
Interfaith Alliance<br>
<strong>Farshad Rastegar</strong>, MD, President and CEO, Relief
International<br>
<strong>Ian Rawson</strong>, Hopital Albert Schweitzer Haiti<br>
<strong>William Reese</strong>, President and CEO, International Youth
Foundation<br>
<strong>George Rupp</strong>, PhD, President and CEO, International
Rescue Committee<br>
<strong>Lisa Russell</strong>, MPH, Filmmaker, Obstetric Fistula<br>
<strong>Harshad Sanghvi</strong>, MD, Medical Director, Maternal and
Neonatal Health Program, JHPIEGO<br>
<strong>Scott Sasser</strong>, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of
Emergency Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine<br>
<strong>Karen Sendelback</strong>, President and CEO, Friends of the
World Food Program<br>
<strong>Robert David Siegel</strong>, MD, PhD, Department of
Microbiology and Immunology, Program in Human Biology, and Center for
African<br>
<strong>Lilit Simonyan</strong>, MPA Candidate; Founder, Former CEO,
International Director, Stepanavan Youth Center NGO Armenia<br>
<strong>Cathy Skoula</strong>, Executive Director, Action Against
Hunger-USA<br>
<strong>Jim Smith</strong>, Executive Director, American International
Health Alliance Inc<br>
<strong>Jeff Todd</strong>, MS, JD, Vice President Programs and Public
Health, Prevent Blindness America<br>
<strong>Landry Tsague</strong>, MD, William H. Foege Fellow, Department
of Global Health at Emory Rollins School of Public Health<br>
<strong>Paul Volberding</strong>, 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<br>
<strong>Karen White</strong>, MBA, MPH, Senior Researcher, Institute
for Global Health, UCSF<br>
<strong>Tanya Whitehead</strong>, PhD, University of Missouri - Kansas
City<br>
<strong>Elliott Wolfe</strong>, MD, Consulting Professor of Medicine,
Stanford University School of Medicine<br>
<strong>Derek Yach</strong>, MBChB, MPH, Director of Rockefeller
Foundation's Program on Global Health</p>
<h3 id="sec2">Global Eye Care and Research</h3>
<p><strong>Robert Alexander</strong>, MPH, PhD, National Eye Institute<br>
<strong>R. Rand Allingham</strong>, MD, Professor of Ophthalmology;
Director, Glaucoma Service, Duke University Eye Center<br>
<strong>Thomas Tontie Baah</strong>, MD, Our Lady of Grace Catholic
Hospital, Ghana<br>
<strong>Tom Beggins</strong>, MD, Former Medical Director and Surgeon,
Lusaka Eye Hospital, Zambia<br>
<strong>Sandy Block</strong>, OD, Illinois College of Optometry<br>
<strong>Harry S. Brown</strong>, MD, Founder and President, SEE
International<br>
<strong>Donald Budenzv</strong>, MD, MPH, Professor of Ophthalmology,
Epidemiology, and Public Health, University of Miami Miller Sch<br>
<strong>James Clarke</strong>, MD, Ophthalmologist and Medical
Director, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana<br>
<strong>Pat Cross</strong>, PhD, Professor and Associate Dean for
Medical Student Research and Scholarship, Stanford School of Medicine<br>
<strong>Syril Dorairaj</strong>, MD, Glaucoma Service at New York Eye
& Ear Infirmary<br>
<strong>Gordon Douglas</strong>, MD, Medical Director, Orbis
International<br>
<strong>Peter Egbert</strong>, MD, Professor, Stanford Department of
Ophthalmology<br>
<strong>Ilene Gipson</strong>, PhD, Professor of Ophthalmology, Harvard
Medical School; Chair, Women's Eye Health Task Force Executive Committee<br>
<strong>Jasvir Grewal</strong>, MD, Ophthalmologist, UK<br>
<strong>Heskel Haddad</strong>, MD, New York Medical College<br>
<strong>Andrew Iwach</strong>, MD, Glaucoma Research & Education
Group, American Academy of Ophthalmology Committee of Secretaries<br>
<strong>Vasudev Kanade</strong>, MD, St. Raphael's Hospital<br>
<strong>Moses Katabarwa</strong>, MPH, PhD, Program Epidemiologist,
River Blindness, Lymphatic Filariasis, and Schistosomiasis Programs,
Carter Center<br>
<strong>Murali Krishnamurthy</strong>, President, Sankara Eye Foundation<br>
<strong>Jacob Kumaresan</strong>, MD, MPH, Dr.PH, President,
International Trachoma Initiative<br>
<strong>Mark Lieberman</strong>, MD, Founder and Medical Director,
Tibet Vision Project<br>
<strong>Michael Marmor</strong>, MD, Professor of Ophthalmology,
Stanford University<br>
<strong>Roger Martin</strong>, Allergan/Lumigan Glaucoma Screening
Activist<br>
<strong>Stephen McLeod</strong>, MD, Theresa M. and Wayne M. Caygill MD
Endowed Chair; Associate Professor and Interim Chairman, Department of
Ophthalmology, University of California San Francisco<br>
<strong>Eydie Miller</strong>, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Scheie
Eye Institute, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine<br>
<strong>Jennifer Peterson</strong>, Country Director, Guinea and Sierra
Leone, Helen Keller International<br>
<strong>Alejandro Ramirez Magana</strong>, Director General, Cinepolis<br>
<strong>Gullapalli N. Rao</strong>, MD, President, International Agency
for the Prevention of Blindness; Distinguished Chair of Eye Health,
L.V. Prasad Eye Institute<br>
<strong>Hannah Reddick</strong>, Guinea Program Assistant, Helen Keller
International<br>
<strong>Alan Robin</strong>, MD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology,
Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Hospital<br>
<strong>Alfredo A. Sadun</strong>, MD, PhD, Floral Thornton Chair of
Vision Research, Professor of Ophthalmology and Neurological Surgery,
University of Southern California<br>
<strong>William Selezinka</strong>, MD, Retired Clinical Professor of
Ophthalmology, UCSD<br>
<strong>Richard D. Semba</strong>, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Wilmer
Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine<br>
<strong>Chirag Shah</strong>, MD, MPH, Wills Eye Hospital<br>
<strong>Val Shestopalov</strong>, PhD, Assistant Professor of
Ophthalmology, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute<br>
<strong>Kuldev Singh</strong>, MD, Professor of Ophthalmology, Stanford
University<br>
<strong>Pooja Sinha</strong>, MBBS, Ophthalmologist, AB Eye Institute,
Patna, India<br>
<strong>Satyajit Sinha</strong>, MBBS, Ophthalmologist, AB Eye
Institute, Patna, India<br>
<strong>Bruce Spivey</strong>, MD, President, International Council of
Ophthalmology<br>
<strong>Bradley R. Straatsma</strong>, MD, JD, President International
Council of Ophthalmology Foundation; Professor Emeritus, Jules Stein
Eye Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA<br>
<strong>Glenn Strauss</strong>, MD, Vice President of International
Health Care and Programs, Mercy Ships International<br>
<strong>Christopher Ta</strong>, MD, Assistant Professor of
Ophthalmology, Stanford University<br>
<strong>Shachar Tauber</strong>, MD, Director of Ophthalmology
Research, Cornea and Refractive Surgery, Department of Ophthalmology
and Optometry, St. John's Hospital and Clinics<br>
<strong>Ken Tuck</strong>, MD, Past President of American Academy of
Ophthalmology<br>
<strong>R. Venkatesh</strong>, DO, DNB, Deputy CMO, Aravind Eye
Hospital, Pondicherry, India<br>
<strong>Martin Wand</strong>, MD, Chairman, American Academy of
Ophthalmology National Glaucoma Project<br>
<strong>Seth Wanye</strong>, MD, The Eye Clinic of Tamale Teaching
Hospital, Ghana</p>
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