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**Innovation, Advancement, and Best Practices To Achieve Global
Goals
**Unite For Sight's Fourth Annual International Health
Conference*_
* APRIL 14-15, 2007 - STANFORD UNIVERSITY
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE,
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*Where:* Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto,
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*Theme:* "Innovation, Advancement, and Best Practices To
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*Who should attend?*Anyone interested in eye care,
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medicine, health education, health promotion, public
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microenterprise
*Conference Goal: *To exchange ideas across disciplines
about best
practices in public health, medicine and research, and
international
health and development. Conference topics range from/
"The Right to
Health: Towards Social Inclusion and Universal Health Care in
Latin
America"/ and /"Antiretroviral Drugs and Issues of Drug Access and
Quality in the Developing World"/ to /"Global Progress in Preventing the
Burden of Blindness and Other Diseases Caused by Measles and Rubella"/
and /"Once I Was Blind....The Challenges of Eye Care in
Ghana"/**
* Join over 1,500 leaders, doctors,
professionals, and students from
5
continents
* More than 230 speakers about eye care, public
health,
international development,
entrepreneurship, microfinance, policy
and
advocacy, bioethics, and medicine
* Exchange ideas about
best practices to achieve global goals in
health and development
_LIST OF CONFERENCE SESSIONS ARE LISTED
BELOW_
· General Topics With Conference
Sessions
a. Global
Health
b. Overseas
Volunteering
c. Health and Human
Rights
d. Microfinance and Social
Entrepreneurship
e. Refugee
Health
f.
HIV/AIDS
g. Infectious
Disease
h. International Health and Development By
Region
i. Global Eye
Care
j. Glaucoma
Symposium
GLOBAL HEALTH -- SESSIONS
Partnerships in Public
Health
"Partnerships in Public Health", Jacob Kumaresan, MD, MPH, Dr.PH,
President, International Trachoma Initiative
"International Trachoma
Initiative - Public/Private Partnership To
Eradicate Blinding Trachoma", Joe
Feczko, MD, Chief Medical Officer;
President, Worldwide Development, Pfizer
Inc.
"Public Private Partnerships to Provide Safe Drinking Water in Africa",
Greg Allgood, PhD, Director, Children's Safe Drinking Water, Procter &
Gamble
"Public Private Partnerships to Advance Technologies for Neglected
Disease", Christopher Elias, MD, MPH, President of PATH
Health As If
People Mattered
"Health As If People Mattered: Development With A Human
Face", John
Hammock, 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
"To Replant the Uprooted: Toward a Shared Vision of Healthy
Communities", George Rupp, PhD, President and CEO, International Rescue
Committee
Health and Development in the 21st Century
"Young
Leaders In Action: Tomorrow's Leaders But Also Today's", William
Reese,
President and CEO, International Youth Foundation
"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
"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
Global Health, Economic Unions, and The State
"Global
Health and Economic Unions", Stephen Bezruchka, MD, MPH, Senior
Lecturer,
University of Washington School of Public Health and Community
Medicine
"Global Rationalities and Local Disasters: Reconsidering the
Role of the
State in Global Public Health", Craig Janes, PhD, Associate
Dean,
Education, Faculty of Health Sciences Office of the Dean, Simon Fraser
University
Humanitarian Emergencies
"Title To Be Announced",
Stephen Tomlin, Vice President of Program,
Policy and Planning,
International Medical Corps
International Community Health
"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"
"The Philosophies of International Care: Do No Harm",
Cliff OCallahan,
MD, PhD, Middlesex Hospital Family Practice
Program
Perspectives on Global Health
"Traingulation: Using Existing
Data For Program Improvement and Policy
Recommendations - The Case of
Botswana and Malawi", Karen White, MBA,
MPH, Senior Researcher, Institute
for Global Health, UCSF
"Title To Be Announced", Farshad Rastegar, MD,
President and CEO, Relief
International
"Title To Be Announced", Jim
Smith, Executive Director, American
International Health Alliance
Inc.
"Title To Be Announced", Sarah Shannon, Executive Director, Hesperian
Foundation
Innovative Programs and Organizations
"The Emergence of
a New Type of Physician: Lessons Learned From
International Experiences",
Andre-Jacques Neusy, MD, DTM&H, Associate
Professor of Medicine;
Director of Center for Global Health, New York
University School of
Medicine
"From Strong Innovative Programs to Strong Innovative
Organizations",
Bjorg Palsdottir, MPA, Consultant, Co-Founder and Associate
Director of
the Center for Global Health at New York Unive
Beyond
Firewood: Basic Needs in Developing Countries
"Solar Cooking and Solar Water
Pasteurization - Addressing Two Basic
Needs in Developing Countries", Robert
Metcalf, PhD, Professor
Biological Sciences, California State University,
Sacramento; Treasurer,
Solar Cookers International
"Addressing The
Reproductive Health of Women and Girls Displaced By
Conflict and Natural
Disasters", Sandra Krause, MPH, BSN, Reproductive
Health Project Director,
Women's Commission for Refugee
Women and Children
Childhood
Diseases
"Expanding Community Case Management for Childhood Diseases in
Conflict-Affected Countries: Scale and Impact in Rwanda and South
Sudan", Emmanuel dHarcourt, Senior Child Survival Technical
"Tears of a
Dying Child: An Insight into Child Mortality From Disease in
Ghana", Samuel
Edusa, MD Candidate, University of Ghana Medical School;
Chairman,
LifeSavers Initiative NGO
"Global Epidemiology of Childhood Blindness:
Challenges for Public
Health Ophthalmology", Mohammad Muhit, MD, Clinical
Research Fellow,
International Centre for Eye Health, London School of
Hygiene and
Tropical Medicine
"Childhood Blindness in Sri Lanka", Habiba
Rawoof, MBBS, DOphth,
M.Sc.CEH, Ophthalmologist, Sri Lanka
Children,
Global Health and Development
"Challenges of Partnering to Achieve Global
Health Goals Impacting
Children", Andrea Gay, MA, MCP, Director, Children's
Health Program,
United Nations Foundation
"How To Help Children in
Humanitarian Emergencies", Marisa Herran, MD,
Assistant Professor of
Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University;
Co-Director, Rainbow Center for
Global Child Health
Education and International Development
"Education
in Africa: Foreign Aid to the Rescue?", Joel Samoff,
Consulting Professor,
Center for African Studies, Stanford University
"Creating a Real Learning
Environment in a Rural School in South India",
Mason Byles, former
executive, Hewlett Packard
Leadership of Youth-Led Global NGOs: A Special
Workshop
"Leadership of Student-Led Global NGOs", Derek Yach, MBChB, MPH,
Director of Rockefeller Foundation's Program on Global
Health
Technology and Telemedicine: New Innovations in Health
Care
"Case Studies of the Interactions between Governance and Healthcare
Technology Solutions", Kathryn McDonald, Executive Director and Senior
Scholar, Center for Health Policy/Center for Primary Care and Outcomes
Research, Stanford University
"Deploying a Low Cost, Long Distance
WiFi-based Teleophthalmology
Network in Rural India: The Aravind
Experience", Sonesh Surana, PhD
Candidate, University of California at
Berkeley
"Project ECHO: Telemedicine Extension For Community Healthcare
Outcomes", Sanjeev Arora, MD, Executive Vice Chairman, Department of
Medicine, University of New Mexico School of Medicine
"RICE: Remote
Interaction, Consultation, and Epidemiology - A New Use
For Cell Phones",
Eliot Grigg, MD Candidate, George Washington
University School of
Medicine
Global Health Ethics
"Global Health Ethics in the New
Millenium, 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
"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
Community Health and Activism
"Advocacy and
Community Health", Gabriel Garcia, MD, Professor of
Medicine, Associate Dean
of Medical School Admissions, Stanford
University School of
Medicine
"Jade Ribbon Campaign: Uniting The World To Eliminate Hepatitis B
and
Liver Cancer", Samuel So, MD, Lui Lac Minh Professor of Surgery;
Director, Asian Livery Center; Director, Liver Cancer Program, Stanford
University School of Medicine
"The HIV/AIDS Pandemic, Community Response
and Disease Specific
Activism", David Katzenstein, Professor of Medicine,
Infectious Disease,
Stanford University School of Medicine
"Bringing
Public Health's Voice to Sustainable Trade and Development",
Ellen Shaffer,
PhD, MPH, Co-Director, CPATH; Assistant Clinical
Professor, Department of
Clinical Pharmacy, University of California at
San Francisco
Global
Food Systems
"Global Food Systems: Does How We Eat Threaten Food Security For
Low-Income Countries?", Robert S. Lawrence, MD, Edyth H. Schoenrich
Professor of Preventive Medicine and Associate Dean for Professional
Practice and Programs; Director, Center for a Livable Future, Johns
Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
"Title To Be Announced", Cathy
Skoula, Executive Director, Action
Against Hunger-USA
Engaging in
Community-Based Health Programs I
"Bridging The Gap Between Providers and
Vulnerable Groups: Reducing
Stigma and Discrimination in VCT/STI Services",
Rebecka Lundgren, MPH,
Director of Operations and Behavioral Research,
Institute for
Reproductive Health, Georgetown University
"Implementation
of Adolescent Sexual Health Education in El Salvador",
Gabriel Brat, MSc, MD
Candidate, Stanford University School of Medicine
Engaging in
Community-Based Health Programs II
"Engaging a Participatory Process for the
Development of an Integrated
Microcredit Program in Nogales, Mexico", Eva
Shaw, MPH, Research
Technician, University of Arizona's Southwest Institute
for Research on
Women
"Project Bokonon: Public Health in Action", Rosita
Najmi, Co-Founder,
Project Bokonon
Global Health Workforce and the
Brain Drain Problem
"Globalization and the Health Workforce: Historical
Perspectives, Future
Challenges", Tom Hall, MD, DrPH, Department of
Epidemiology and
Biostatistics, UCSF School of Medicine
"The African
Brain Drain: Creating Solutions to the Problem One Mission
at a Time",
Constance Nduaguba, MD, Clinical Instructor, Glaucoma
Service, University of
Pennsylvania Scheie Eye Institute
Sanitation and Water Use
"Ecological
Sanitation in Rural Haiti: An Interdisciplinary Approach to
Sanitation,
Public Health and Soil Fertility", Sasha Kramer, PhD,
Postdoctoral
Researcher, Stanford Collaboratory For Research on Global
Projects, Civil
and Environmental Engineering; Visiting Scholar,
Stanford University
Department of Biological Sciences
Global Cardiovascular
Health
"Cardiovascular Risk Factors in South Asian Immigrants: Apo A-I Gene
Mutations", Sunita Dodani, MD, MS, FCPS, PhD, Department of
Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of
Pitts
"Hypertension Control in Primary Control Settings in the Republic of
Georgia", Fred Tavill, MD, DpH, Senior Program Consultant, Center for
International health
"Social Capital and Hypertension in Rural Haitian
Women", Cris Malino, MPH
Strategies to Sustainable
Healthcare
"Pursuing a Ghost: Fostering Sustainable Health Care in Developing
Countries", Salvador Baldizon, MD, MA, MPH, Health Protection
Specialist, Free From Hunger
Surgery and Global
Health
"Interplast: Using Innovative Technology to Improve Surgical Care in
Developing Countries", Susan Hayes, President and CEO,
Interplast
"Surgery and Global Health: A Mandate for Research, Training, and
Service", Doruk Ozgediz, MD, MSc, Chief Resident in General Surgery,
University of California at San Francisco, and William P. Schecter, MD,
Professor of Clinical Surgery at UCSF, Vice Chair of the Department of
Surgery at UCSF, and Chief of Surgery at San Francisco General
Hospital
OVERSEAS VOLUNTEERING
Real-Life Lessons in Cultural
Competency
"The Ground Meat Parable: Real-life Lessons from Africa for
International Volunteers", Valda Ford, MPH, MS, RN, University of
Nebraska Medical Center
"Hold Your Breath: A Film on Cultural
Competency", Maren
Grainger-Monsen, MD, Senior Research Scholar, Center for
Biomedical
Ethics, Stanford School of Medicine
"Cultural Competence in
Global Health: Linguistic Solutions to
Cross-Cultural Complications", T.S.
Harvey, PhD, Assistant Professor of
Linguistic Anthropology, Case Western
Reserve University
Engaging Students in International Health
I
"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
"Phacos, 115 Degrees, and Marriage Proposals? Stories and Lessons
From
Volunteering in Bihar, India", Anna Cooper, MPH Candidate, University
of
Rochester School of Public Health
"Perspectives on Tamale From A Unite
For Sight Volunteer", Nicholas
Greene, Unite For Sight Volunteer in Tamale,
Ghana
Engaging Students and Universities in International
Health
"Stanford Medicine and Global Health: An Evolving Partnership", Philip
Pizzo, MD, Dean of Stanford University School of Medicine; Carl and
Elizabeth Naumann Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford
School of Medicine
"Teaching Health Profession Students Global Health:
Resources, Methods,
Opportunities", Tom Hall., MD, DrPH, Department of
Epidemiology and
Biostatistics, UCSF School of Medicine
"Innovations in
Global Health Education", Thomas Novotny, MD, MPH,
Director of International
Programs; Professor in Residence, Epidemiology
and Biostatistics, UCSF
School of Medicine
"Title To Be Announced", Ana Carolina Victoria, MD
Candidate, Albert
Einstein School of Medicine
Preparing To Volunteer
Overseas
"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
"Preparing To Volunteer in Ghana", Nicholas Greene., Unite For Sight
Volunteer in Tamale, Ghana
An Eye Opener in Chennai, India: A Unite For
Sight Film
HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS -- SESSIONS
Health and Human
Rights
"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
Scoial Change, Harvard Medica School / Partners in Heath
"Health and
Human Rights: The Impact of War on Vision and Ocular
Health", Derek
Mladenovich, OD, FAAO, MPH Candidate, Fellow, World
Council of Optometry;
External Examiner, International Rescue Committee,
Thailand
"Infectious
Diseases and Human Rights: Making Research Matter", Daniel
Bausch, MD,
MPH,&TM Associate Professor, Tulane University School of
Public Health
and Tropical Medicine
"Is Women's Health a Human Right?", Mini Murthy, MD,
MPH, MS, Assistant
Professor of Practice,New York Medical College School of
Public Health
Children, Blindness, and Human Rights
"The Human Rights
of Blind Children in India", Mini Murthy., MD, MPH,
Assistant Professor,
Behavioral Science and Community Health, New York
Medical College School of
Public Health
"Confidence Building Measure in a Blind Girls School in Bihar,
India",
Ajit Sinha., MBBS, Founder and Director, AB Eye Institute; Former
President, All India Ophthalmological Society
"Improvement of the Quality
of Life of the Blind Children in West Bengal
India", Sudipta Dey, Director,
Eye Micro Surgery and Diagnostic Center,
Kolkata, West Bengal,
India
MICROFINANCE AND SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP --
SESSIONS
Changing The World Through Social
Entrepreneurship
"Technology Social Entrepreneurship", Jim Fruchterman,
Chairman and
Founder, The Benetech Initiative
Global Youth
Entrepreneurship
"Global Youth Entrepreneurship", James Toole, PhD,
President, Compass
Institute
Social Innovation and Social
Entrepreneurship
"Title To Be Announced", Melanie Edwards, CEO, MobileMedia;
Lecturer of
Social Entrepreneurship at Stanford University
"Title To Be
Announced", Jane Leu, Founder and Executive Director,
Upwardly
Global
Microfinance and Sustainable Development
"Title To Be
Announced", Alex Counts, President, Grameen Foundation USA
"An Effective
Model of Rural Microfinance", Brian Lehnen, Executive
Director and
Co-Founder, Village Enterprise Fund
"Social Investing and Entrepreneurship in
the Business of International
Development", Philip Berber, Founder,
Chairman, A Glimmer of Hope Foundation
Microfinance, Fair Trade, and
International Development
"Fair Trade and the Dignity of Work in Rural
African Communities",
Lindsay M. Harris, Managing Director, A Bridge for
Africa Foundation
"Passing on the Gift: Heifer's Approach to Sustainable
Development and
Program Expansion", Jim DeVries, MD, Senior Vice President
of Programs,
Heifer International
"Workshop Title: Increasing Income,
Confidence and Business Growth
Through Effective Business Education for Low
Income People", Fiona
Macaulay, Founder and President, Making
Cents
Entrepreneurial Social Innovation
"Atrocities and Social
Entrepreneurship", Zachary Kaufman, MPhil, DPhil,
JD Candidate, Yale
University Law School
"Cinepolis: A Vision For Social Responsiblity",
Alejandro Ramirez
Magana, Director General, Cinepolis
"Healthcare Needs
and Opportunities in Afghanistan - Collaborating
Across The Sectors", Kulsum
Janmohamed, MD, MPH
"Priming Entrepreneurial Social Innovation to Stem the
Tide of Penury
and Epidemics in Africa", BT Costantinos, PhD, MBA, Chairman,
Ethiopica
Infrastructure and Tunnelling Holdings; President and Chief
Research
Consultant, Ceter For Human Environment
Entrepreneurship and
Health
"Global/Social Entrepreneurship", Kamran Elahian, , MS, Chairman,
Co-Founder, Global Catalyst Partners; Co-Founder, Global Catalyst
Foundation and Schools Online
"Social Impact Through Public Private
Partnerships in Entrepreneurship
and Health", Georgia Sambunaris, Financial
Sector Specialist,
USAID/EGAT, Office of Economic Growth
Social
Learning and Civic Engagement
"The Role of Indigenous Faith-Based and Civil
Society Organizations in
Health Services Development in East and Southern
Africa", Mark E.
Anderson, President and CEO, Center For International
Health
"Social Learning and Civic Engagement: Global Applications and
Experiences Using A Faith-Based Model", Daniel J. West, PhD, Professor
and Chairman, Department of Health Administration and Human Resources,
University of Scranton
"Preparing Undergraduates to Address Global Public
Health Needs: The
Development of a Multi-national, Interdisciplinary
Comparative Study
Program", Christina T. Holt, Assistant Clinical Professor,
University of
Vermont Medical School
REFUGEE HEALTH --
SESSIONS
The Health of Refugee Women I
"Exploring Reproductive and Sexual
Health with Liberian Refugee Women",
Rena Patel, MPhil, BA, MD Candidate,
Stanford School of Medicine
"Addressing Psychosocial Needs of Refugee &
Immigrant Women: >From
Surviving to Thriving", Lorrie L. King, MPH,
Founder, Executive
Director, Just Cause, Inc.
The Health of Refugee
Women II
"Addressing The Reproductive Health of Women and Girls Displaced By
Conflict and Natural Disasters", Sandra Krause, MPH, BSN, Reproductive
Health Project Director, Women's Commission for Refugee Women and
Children
"Listening to Women's Voices: Lessons Learned from Congolese Refugee
Women in Rwanda", Carol Pavlish, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor, UCLA
School of Nursing
"Demonstration of a Reproductive Health Assessment
Toolkit for
Conflict-Affected Women", Marianne E. Zotti, DrPH, MS, FAAN,
Lead Health
Scientist and Team Leader, Services Management, Research and
Translation
Team, Division of Reproductive Health at the Centers for Disease
Control
and Prevention
The Health of Refugees
"Community Based
Rehabilitation Projects in Politically Volatile
Regions: Setting the
Foundations for Peacebuilding", Kathryn Azevedo,
PhD, ATRIC, CMP,
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Clinical Research, Stanford
University School of
Medicine
"Mobilizing War-Torn African Communities to Improve Public
Health,"Cornelius Pratt, MA, PhD, Presidential Professor and Strategic
and Organizational Communication, Temple University, and E. Lincoln
James, PhD, Washington State University
INFECTIOUS DISEASE -
SESSIONS
Disease Control Strategies in the Developing World
"Trends
and Successes of the Global AIDS Epidemic", Peter R. Lamptey,
MD, DrPH,
President, Family Health International Institute for
HIV/AIDS
"Insecticide-Treated Bednets in Mass Disease Control and Elimination
Campaigns", Brian Blackburn, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor,
Infectious Diseases, Stanford School of Medicine
"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
"Logistics of Mass Drug Administration, The Case of Azithromycin
For
Trachoma Control", Sam Abbenyi, MD, MSc, Director, Program Planning and
Analysis, International Trachoma Initiative
Malaria Prevention and
Treatment Strategies
"Preventing Malaria During Pregnancy: Intermittent
Preventative
Treatment on Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea", Josephine
Czechowicz, MD
Candidate, Stanford University
"Protecting Border Security
and Health: Effective Strategies for
Monitoring and Treating Malaria among
Burma's IDPs", Emily Whichard,
Program Officer, Global Health Access
Program, Berkeley School of Public
Health
Towards Disease
Eradication
"Is Global Elimination of a Bacterial Disease a Feasible Goal?
Trachoma
3000 Years Later", Bruce Gaynor, MD, Assistant Clinical Professor
of
Ophthalmology, FI Proctor Foundation and Department of Ophthalmology,
University of California at San Francisco
"The Polio Eradication
Partnership: Some Lessons Learned", Carol Pandak,
Manager, Division of
PolioPlus, The Rotary Foundation of Rotary
International
HIV/AIDS --
SESSIONS
HIV/AIDS in Low Resource Settings
"Advances and Ongoing
Challenges in HIV Therapy", Paul Volberding, 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
"Antiretroviral Drugs and Issues of Drug Access and Quality in the
Developing World", Terry Blaschke, MD, Professor of Medicine and
Molecular Pharmacology, Stanford University
"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
HIV/AIDS Community Needs and Strategies
"Kasensero:
The Forgotten Village Coming Out of the Shadow", Kiran V.
Patel, MD,
Resident, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University
School of
Medicine
"Acceptance of and Barriers to Voluntary HIV Counseling and Testing
Among Adults in Guizhou Province, China", Wei Ma, MS; PhD Candidate,
UCLA/Fogarty AIDS International Training and Research Program,
UCLA
Important Perspectives on HIV/AIDS
"The HIV Pandemic in the
Developing World", John McGoldrick, Executive
Vice President, Bristol-Myers
Squibb
"The War on AIDS - Integration Equals Impact", George Guimaraes,
President and CEO, Project Concern International
"Pediatric AIDS: Worlds
Apart", Mark Kline, MD, President, Baylor
International Pediatric AIDS
Initiative; Professor of Pediatrics; Head,
Section of Retrovirology, Baylor
College of Medicine
"Healing through Laughter - An Innovative Psychosocial
Response to the
HIV/AIDS Crisis in Southern Africa", Jamie McLaren Lachman,
Project
Njabulo Director, Clowns Without Borders
HIV/AIDS Prevention
and Care
"AIDS, Eyes, and Africa: A View of Zambia Health Care Through The
Eyes
of an American Ophthalmologist Working For CBMI at the Lusaka Eye
Hospital, Zambia", Tom Beggins, MD, Former Medical Director and Surgeon,
Lusaka Eye Hospital, Zambia
"Delivering HIV Prevention and Care Services
to Rural African Villages
Through Christian and Muslim Religious Groups",
William W. Rankin, PhD,
President, Global AIDS Interfaith Alliance
"With
Women Worldwide: Sexual and Reproductive Rights and Health to End
HIV/AIDS",
Adrienne Germain, President, International Women's Health
Coalition
"HIV/AIDS in China", Jessica Haberer, MD, Research Advisor,
Clinton
Foundation
Community HIV Prevention Programs
"Arm's Reach
Care: A Community Network Model for Pediatric HIV Care and
Treatment", Joy
Amulya, EdD, AM, EdM, Research Associate and Lecturer,
University of
Colorado Health Sciences Center
"Optimizing Prevention: A Comprehensive PMTCT
Program in Mombasa,
Kenya", Lara Christine Bishay and Nicholas Gavin, MD
Candidate, New York
University School of Medicine
Community
Strategies for HIV/AIDS
"Rapid Skill Transfer Through Clinical Mentoring: A
Universal, Fast
Approach To Scaling Up HIV Practical Expertise in Developing
Countries",
Marie Charles, MD, MIA, Founder and President, International
Center for
Equal Healthcare Access; Adjunct Professor, Columbia University
School
of International and Public Affairs; Henry Crown Fellow, The Aspen
Institute
"Building Foundations for Sustainable Local Response to HIV/AIDS",
Debra
Miller, MSN, Country Director - Kenya, CHF
International
WOMEN'S HEALTH -- SESSIONS
Examining Women's
Health
"Women and Health", Ana Langer, MD, President and CEO,
EngenderHealth
"The Challenge of Treating Complex Obstetric Fistula in
Eritrea", Amreen
Husain, MD, Assistant Professor of Gynecologic Oncology,
Stanford University
"Women and Eye Disease", Ilene Gipson, PhD, Professor of
Ophthalmology,
Harvard Medical School; Chair, Women's Eye Health Task Force
Executive
Committee
"A Comparative Study of Sociocultural Factors
Contributing to Maternal
Mortality in Urban and Rural Areas of Southern Part
of Edo State,
Nigeria", Chinwe Lucy Marchie, PhD, MEd, MHPM, School of
Nursing,
University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Nigeria
Perspectives
on Reproductive Health
"Cross-Cultural Partnerships for Reproductive Health",
Dian Harrison,
President and CEO, Planned Parenthood Golden Gate
"Quality
of Care Gives Bolivian Indigenous Women Opportunities for a New
Future",
Lynn Johnson, Bolivia Country Director, EngenderHealth
Growing Big,
Healthy Babies
"Ensuring Equitable Access to Skilled Maternity Care", Jill
Sheffield,
President, Family Care International
"Growing Big Babies: A
Positive Deviance Approach to Nutritional Support
for Pregnant Women in the
Republic of Guinea", Jennifer Peterson,
Country Director, Guinea and Sierra
Leone, Helen Keller International
Preventing Obstetric
Emergencies
"Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics (ALSO)", Lee T. Dresang, MD,
Associate Professor, Department Maternity Care Clinical Coordinator,
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
"Training
Nigerian Health Workers on the Use of Non-Pneumatic
Anti-Schock Garment For
Obstetric Hemorrhage", Shola Olorunnipa, MD
Candidate, Stanford
University
"Preventing Postpartum Hemorrhage: Training Indigenous Health
Workers To
Use Misoprostol in IDP Settings", Susan Tuddenham, MSc IR; MD
Candidate,
David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA and Catherine Lee,
MPH
Obstetric Fistula Film Campaign
"Love, Labor, Loss Film Campaign
on Obstetric Fistula", Lisa Russell,
MPH, Filmmaker
Cervical
Cancer
"Cervical Cancer", Harshad Sanghvi, MD, Medical Director, Maternal and
Neonatal Health Program, JHPIEGO Corporation
"Partnering For Prevention:
The "State" of Cervical Cancer in the US",
Sarah Wells, Senior Director of
Public Policy, Women in Government
INTERNATIONAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT
BY REGION - SESSIONS
Community-Based Medical Care in Africa
"Title To
Be Announced", Jessie Stone, MD, Director, Soft Power Heath,
Uganda
"Emergency Medical Care Systems in Low and Middle Income
Countries",
Scott Sasser, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency
Medicine,
Emory University School of Medicine
"Developing A Regional
School of Nursing in South Africa", Tanya
Whitehead, PhD, University of
Missouri - Kansas City
"Healthcare in the Horn of Africa: Reaching Somalis
through Interactive
Radio Instruction", Kit Yasin, EdD, MS, Center Director,
Center for
Latin America, the Caribbean and the Horn of Africa, Education
Development Center
Public Health in Latin America
"Honduran Health
Alliance: Blending Community-Oriented Primary Care with
Public Health in
Rural Honduras", Bonzo Reddick, MD, Clinical
Instructor, Department of
Family Medicine, University of North Carolina
- Chapel Hill
"Stemming the
Rise of Type 2 Diabetes in Rural Amazon", Betsy Fuller
Matambanadzo.,
Program Director, Child Family Health International
"Making Mental Health a
Priority in Belize", Cheryl Killion, PhD, RN,
Associate Professor, Case
Western Reserve University
"Emphasis on Empowerment: The Evolution of a
Flexible Approach for
Improving Maternal and Child Health", Kristen Kanerva
Richards, RN, and
Mary Fifield, Executive Director, Global Pediatric
Alliance
Health Care in the Caribbean
"Addressing the Root Causes of
Disease in Haiti", Ian Rawson, Hopital
Albert Schweitzer Haiti
"The
Dominican Bateyes: Humanitarian Crisis on the Sugar Cane
Plantations",
Ulrick Gaillard, JD, CEO, Batey Relief Alliance
"Project SCENE (Sister
Congregations Enjoying New Eyesight)--Building on
a Sister Diocese
Relationship To Foster Eye Care Collaboration in the
Caribbean", Kevin
Treacy, MD, Chief of Ophthalmology, St. Luke's
Hospital; Adjunct Assistant
Professor, University of Minnesota Medical
School-Duluth
"Title To Be
Announced", Ken Onu, MD
Health Care in Uganda
"The Impact of Health
Care Costs on Household Spending in Uganda",
William Herrin, MA, PhD, Senior
Economist, Federal Housing Finance
Board; Professor of Economics, University
of the Pacific
"A South-South Strategy to Achieve 'Health for All' in Uganda:
Building
human resource capacity to implement the Ugandan National Minimum
Health
Care Package (UNMCHP)", Marion Billings, MSc, Executive Director,
Global
Health Through Education, Training and Service
Healthcare in
Thailand
"Reproductive Health Knowledge and Gender Equality in a Thai Ethnic
Minority: Revelations and Reflections", Romeo Arca Jr, MA, Senior
Program Officer, Asia Regional Office, Planned Parenthood Federation of
America-International
"HIV Knowledge, Attitude, Practice, and Behavior
Among Migrant Workers
Living on the Thai-Burma Border", Meghan Gallagher,
MPH
"Cultural and Behavioral Precursors to "Severe" Malaria on the Thai -
Myanmar Border", Peter Kundstadter, PhD, University of California, San
Francisco (retired)
"Prevalence of Refractive Error in a Refugee
Population in Thailand",
Alex Ilechie, OD, Department of Optometry, Faculty
of Science,
University of Cape Coast
Healthcare In
Vietnam
"Medicine in Vietnam: Past, Present, and Future", Peter A. Singer,
MD,
Chairman, East Meets West Foundation; Professor of Clinical Medicine,
Chief, Clinical Endocrinology, Keck School of Medicine, University of
Southern California
"To Save Newborn Lives", Quynh Kieu, MD, Assistant
Clinical Professor of
Pediatrics, University of California at
Irvine
"Title To Be Announced", Daniel Schainholz, MD
Public Health in
Eastern Europe
"The Ukrainian Eye Project: A 14-Year Effort To Rehabilitate
Vision Care
Capabilities in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine", William Selezinka,
MD,
Retired Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology, UCSD
GLOBAL EYE CARE
- SESSIONS
Vision2020: Needs, Challenges, and Solutions
"Title To Be
Announced", Gullapalli N. Rao, MD, President, International
Agency for the
Prevention of Blindness; Distinguished Chair of Eye
Health, L.V. Prasad Eye
Institute
"Once I Was Blind....The Challenges of Eye Care in Ghana", James
Afful
Clarke, MD, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Crystal Eye Clinic,
Ghana
"Eye Care Services in Northern Region, Ghana: The Role of NGOs", Seth
Wanye, MD, The Eye Clinic of Tamale Teaching Hospital, Ghana
"Forty Years
of Community Ophthalmology in India", Ajit Sinha, MBBS,
Founder and
Director, AB Eye Institute; Former President, All India
Ophthalmological
Society
Leprosy: The Disease, Ocular Effects, and
Rehabilitation
"Basic Pathology and Immunology of Leprosy", David M.
Scollard, MD, PhD,
Chief, Research Pathology, National Hansen's Disease
Programs, Louisiana
State University
"Ocular Leprosy: Results From A
Seven Year Longitudinal Study", Ebenezer
Daniel,
M.B.B.S.M.S.D.O.M.P.H.M.A.M.S, Division of Ocular Immunology,
Department of
Ophthalmology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
"Leprosy
Rehabilitation in India", Robert A. Chase, MD, Emile Holman
Professor of
Surgery, Emeritus, Stanford University School of Medicine
"Leprosy &
HIV/AIDS: History Repeats", Betsy Fuller Matambanadzo,
Program Director,
Child Family Health International
Eye Care in the Developing
World
"Optometric and Ophthalmological Cooperation in Education in the
Developing World", Jay Enoch, OD, PhD, Professor of the Graduate School;
Dean Emeritus, School of Optometry, Berkeley School of
Optometry
"Improving Surgical Eye Care in Ecuador: Corneal Transplantation,
Cataract and Pterygium Surgery", Ronald N. Gaster, MD, Adjunct
Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, University of California,
Irvine
Unite For Sight Worldwide: A Film and Discussion With Eye Clinics
Worldwide
Examining Needs and Solutions in International Eye
Care
"International Ophthalmology: Structure and Function", Bruce Spivey, MD,
President, International Council of Ophthalmology
"Education of
Ophthalmologists and Allied Eye Care Providers: A
Cornerstone of
Preservation and Restoration of Vision Worldwide",
Bradley R. Straatsma, MD,
JD, President International Council of
Ophthalmology Foundation; Professor
Emeritus, Jules Stein Eye Institute,
David Geffen School of Medicine at
UCLA
"Eye Care in Ghana, the Challenges and the Way Forward", Thomas Tontie
Baah, MD, Our Lady of Grace Catholic Hospital, Ghana
"Achieving
Vision2020 Targets In The Midst of Poverty - Experience >From
The Bawku
Eyecare Program in Ghana", Michael Ekuoba Gyasi, MD,
Ophthalmologist and
Director of the Bawku Eye Care Program, Ghana
Globalization of Community
Ophthalmology
"Continental Diversities in Community Ophthalmology", Satyajit
Sinha,
MBBS, Ophthalmologist, AB Eye Institute, Patna, India
"Cataracts
in Developing Countries: A Humanitarian Emergency", Harry S.
Brown, MD,
Founder and President, SEE International
"The Globalization of
Ophthalmology", Dunbar Hoskins, MD, Executive
Director, American Academy of
Ophthalmology
Himalayan Cataract Project; Repeats Every 1
Hour
"Himalayan Cataract Project", National Geographic Film
Cornea
Transplants in the Developed and Developing World
"Advances in Cornea
Transplantation", Shachar Tauber, MD, Director of
Ophthalmology Research,
Cornea and Refractive Surgery, Department of
Ophthalmology and Optometry,
St. John's Hospital and Clinics
"Cornea Transplant Needs and Barriers in
Ghana", James Clarke, MD,
Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Crystal Eye
Clinic, Ghana
"Corneal Blindness in the Developing World: Impact and
Therapeutic
Challenges", Stephen McLeod, MD, Theresa M. and Wayne M. Caygill
MD
Endowed Chair; Associate Professor and Interim Chairman, Department of
Ophthalmology, University of California San Francisco
"A Safe and
Inexpensive Artificial Cornea for the Developing World? The
Boston
Initiative", Claes H. Dohlman, MD, PhD, Professor of
Ophthalmology, Harvard
Medical School - Massachusetts Eye and Ear Institute
Eye Care in Post
Conflict Settings
"Mission Impossible: A Day in the Life of a West African
Mission Eye
Clinic", Cathy Schanzer, MD, Medical Director and Chief Surgeon,
Southern Eye Associates
"From Enthusiasm to Effectiveness - Moving
Forward in Liberia, West
Africa", Glenn Strauss, MD, Vice President of
International Health Care
and Programs, Mercy Ships International
"Eye
Health Promotion in Southern Rwanda", Egide Gisagara, Medical
Student,
National University of Rwanda
Eye Diseases of Artists
"Eye Disease and
Art", Michael Marmor, MD, Professor of Ophthalmology,
Stanford
University
Assistive Technology for Developing Countries
"Title To Be
Announced", Ralf Hotchkiss, Co-Founder, Chief Engineer and
Principal
Instructor, Whirlwind Wheelchair International
"Operation Catalyst: Action
Research Concerning The Use of Assistive
Technology To Increase Independence
and Improve Attitudes Toward
Disability in Developing Countries", Emily
Moore, PhD, Adjunct
Professor, Sociology, San Diego State
University
The Interface Between Research and Communities
"One Earth:
The Interface Between Biomedical Research and Communities",
Anna Cooper.,
MPH Candidate, University of Rochester School of Public Health
"RPE
Transplantation in Macular Degeneration", Boris Stanzel, MD,
Postdoctoral
Research Fellow, Department of Ophthalmology, Stanford
University School of
Medicine
"Patterned Scanning Laser Photocoagulation: a New Approach to
Retinal
Treatment", Yannis Paulus, MD Candidate, Stanford
University
The Retina: Research For Developed and Developing
Countries
"Role of Retinal Evaluation in Cataract Surgery", Pooja Sinha,
MBBS,
Ophthalmologist, AB Eye Institute, Patna, India
"Statins and
Diabetic Retinopathy: A Study in Patna, India", Rajen
Desai, MD Candidate,
Stanford University School of Medicine
"Advances in the Diagnosis and
Treatment of Retinopathy of Prematurity",
William Good, MD
"Inheritance
of Blinding Disease: Pathways to the Cause of Glaucoma and
Macular
Degeneration", R. Rand Allingham, MD, Professor of
Ophthalmology; Director,
Glaucoma Service, Duke University Eye Center
The Aravind Model of Eye
Care in India
"Infinite Vision - The Story of Dr. V(enkataswamy) and the
Aravind Eye
Care System", Pavithra Krishnan, Filmmaker
"Beyond Screening
Camps in Southern India/Telemedicine-Assisted Vision
Centers: Aravind's New
Rural Community Eyecare Strategy", Christine
Melton, MD, MS, Friends of
Aravind Association
Corneas and Artificial Corneas
"Histology of the
Eye", Pat Cross, PhD, Professor and Associate Dean for
Medical Student
Research and Scholarship, Stanford School of Medicine
"Biominetic Artificial
Cornea", Christopher Ta, MD, Assistant Professor
of Ophthalmology, Stanford
University
Visioning Tibet
"Visioning Tibet", Mark Lieberman, MD,
Founder and Medical Director,
Tibet Vision Project
Providing Eye Care
Where There Was None
"Examining Glaucoma at Buduburam Refugee Camp in Ghana",
Sally Ong, BS
Candidate, Duke University
"Remote Eye Care in the
Himalayas", Vinay Yagnik, BS Candidate,
University of California at
Berkeley
Ophthalmic Training in Developing Countries
"To Visit or to
Stay?" That is the question! Ophthalmic Education at
King Khaled Eye
Specialist Hospital and aboard the Orbis DC-Flying Eye
Hospital", Rosalind
Stevens, Professor of Surgery (Ophthalmology),
Dartmouth Medical
School
"Principles in Training for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus
Care
in Developing Countries", T. Otis Paul, MD, Oakland's Children
Hospital
Lions Club and Eye Care
"Special Olympics Lions Clubs
International Opening Eyes - A Model For
Increasing Access to Eye Care
Through Education and Screening", Sandy
Block, OD, MEd, Illinois College of
Optometry
"Glaucoma and Volunteerism", Roger Martin, Allergan/Lumigan
Glaucoma
Screening Activist
Perspectives on Eye Care in India
"Eye
Care in Chennai, India", Pradeep Mettu, MD Candidate, University of
Kentucky
College of Medicine
"Unite For Sight in Patna, India", Kristin
Ow
Cataracts in India
"World Bank-Assisted Cataract Blindness Control
Project in India",
Eirini Iliaki, MD, MPH, Harvard School of Public
Health
"Title To Be Announced", Muralidharan Krishnamurthy, President,
Sankara
Eye Foundation
Building Sustainable Eye
Programs
"Leadership Development For Blindness Prevention: Building Programs
That
Deliver Results", Jonathan D. Quick, MD, MPH, President and Chief
Executive Officer, Management Sciences for Health
"Sustainability and Eye
Care Programs: Development of a Global
Resource", Kovin Naidoo, BSc,
BOptomOD, MPH, Director International
Centre for Eyecare Education in
Africa
Technology For Eye Care
"Progress Towards Affordable Vision
Correction; New Appropriate
Technology and Clinical Methodology", Ian
Berger, M.D., M.P.H. Dr.PH,
Founding President, InFOCUS
"Low Cost Lenses
and Instruments For Eye Camps", Rizvi Rawoof, Ed in B
Mgmt, MBA, FBIM,
Director, Optiquip Surgical, Sri Lanka
A New Vision For The Future, Eye
Health Integration: A Federal, State,
and Organization Perspective
"Eye
Health Integration; "A New Vision For The Future"", Michael R.
Duenas, OD,
Health Scientist/Project Officer, Centers for Disease
Control and
Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention
and Health
Promotion, Division of Diabetes Translation and National
Vision Program;
Christopher Maylahn, MPH, Epidemiologist, Chronic
Disease Division of New
York State Department of Health; Jeff Todd, JD,
Vice President Programs and
Public Health, Prevent Blindness America
Nutrition and Eye Care
"An
Epidemic of Blindness in Cuba: Lessons on Nutrition and
Mitochondria",
Alfredo A. Sadun, MD, PhD, Floral Thornton Chair of
Vision Research,
Professor of Ophthalmology and Neurological Surge
"Nutritional Factors in the
Development of Cataracts", Heskel Haddad,
MD, New York Medical
College
Eye Care Services: Dilemmas and Successes
"Title To Be
Announced", Satya B. Verma, OD, Pennsylvania College of
Optometry
"Title
To Be Announced", Mohammed Kabir, Optometrist, Kumasi School of
Optometry,
Ghana
"Eye Care Services to Malnourished Tribal Children in Tribal Belt of
Western Part of India: A Success Story of an NGO", Nagesh S. Tekale,
PhD, President, Navdrushti
"Mobilizing a Profession Toward Philanthropic
Giving: The Patient Giving
Program To End Global Refractive Error", Pamela
Capaldi, Director of
Operations and Development, Optometry Giving
Sight
Eyes and Infectious Disease: Combatting River Blindness
"River
Blindness Disease - Past, Present, and Future Control/Elimination
Strategies", Moses Katabarwa, BSc, MPH, MA, PhD, Program Epidemiologist,
River Blindness, Lymphatic Filariasis, and Schistosomiasis Programs,
Carter Center
"River Blindness Control and Elimination Programs", Ken
Gustavsen,
Manager, Global Product Donations, Merck & Co, Inc
"The
Strategic Reorganization of Community-Directed Treatment with
Ivermectin
(CDTI) in Post-Conflict Settings: The Case of Sierra Leone",
Mustapha
Sonnie, Eye Care Technician, Sierra Leone, Helen Keller
International
"Using the Successful Onchocerciasis Control Program Model
for Planning
and Implementing Vision 2020 Initiatives", Jeffrey Watson, ,
MS,
Director of Overseas Operations, Christian Blind Mission International -
USA
Strategies For Community Eye Health
"Eye Care in India: A Bird's
Eye View", Vasudev Kanade, MD, St.
Raphael's Hospital
"Unite For Sight in
Chennai, India", T. Senthil, MBBS, Consulting
Ophthalmologist, Uma Eye
Clinic, India
"A UK Ophthalmologist's India Eye Care Experience", Jasvir
Grewal, MD,
Ophthalmologist, UK
"Sustainable Eye Care in the Developing
World with ORBIS", Gordon
Douglas, MD, Medical Director, Orbis
International
GLAUCOMA SYMPOSIUM
Glaucoma in Ghana
"Glaucoma in
Africa: What We Know and What We Need To Know", Donald
Budenz, MD, MPH,
Professor of Ophthalmology, Epidemiology, and Public
Health, University of
Miami Miller School of Medicine
"What I Have Learned About Glaucoma
Management in Ghana", Peter Egbert,
MD, Professor, Stanford Department of
Ophthalmology
Glaucoma Research
"Title To Be Announced", Syril
Dorairaj, MD, Glaucoma Service at New
York Eye & Ear
Infirmary
"Identification of Pathogenic Mechanisms of Glaucoma By Systems
Analysis
of Diverse Types of Genome-Wide Data", Val Shestopalov, PhD,
Assistant
Professor of Ophthalmology, Bascom Palmer Eye
Institute
Making A Difference in Glaucoma
"Caring For Glaucoma
Globally: Five Important Issues", M. Roy Wilson,
MD, MS, Chancellor,
University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences
Center
"Current
Challenges in Glaucoma Management", Andrew Iwach, MD, Glaucoma
Research
& Education Group, American Academy of Ophthalmology Secretary
for
Communications
"Screening for Glaucoma Among a Predominantly Mexican American
Urban
Population", William Sponsel, MD, Professor, UTHSCSA, San Antonio,
Texas
"The Glaucoma EyeCare Program: How Do You Make a Difference in
Glaucoma?", Richard Wilson, MD, Gaucoma Service, Wills Eye
Hospital
Glaucoma in the Developing World
"Title To Be Announced",
Alan Robin, MD, Associate Professor of
Ophthalmology, Wilmer Eye Institute,
Johns Hopkins Hospital
"Does Screening for Glaucoma Make Sense in the
Developing World?",
Kuldev Singh, MD, MPH, Professor of Ophthalmology,
Director of Glaucoma
Service, Stanford University
"Title To Be
Announced", Bradford Lee, MSc, MD Candidate, Stanford
University