[Ip-health] Call For Abstracts: Global Health and Innovation Summit at Yale

[Jennifer Staple]

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Global Health & Innovation Summit
The World's Leading Idea Incubator For Global Health Innovation

A Conference Presented Annually by Unite For Sight
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Saturday, April 17 - Sunday, April 18, 2010
Registration Now Open (Early Bird Registration Rate):http://www.uniteforsig=
ht.org/conference

Call For Abstracts: Submit an abstract online at http://www.uniteforsight.o=
rg/conference  The first deadline for abstract submission is August 15, and=
 the final abstract deadline is September 20.

"A Meeting of Minds," --CNN

200 Speakers in April 2010 <http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference/speaker=
s>, Including Keynote Addresses by Seth Godin, Jeffrey Sachs and Sonia Sach=
s. Plus social innovation sessions by CEOs and Directors of Acumen Fund, Pa=
rtners in Health, WaterPartners, Save The Children, HealthStore Foundation,=
 and many others.

The Global Health & Innovation Summit convenes more than 2,200 participants=
 from 55 countries. The Summit challenges students, public health professio=
nals, educators, doctors, scientists, lawyers, universities, corporations, =
nonprofits, and others, to develop innovative, effective solutions to achie=
ve global goals.

Keynote Speakers

"Using The Power of Stories and Tribes to Spread Your Messages and Change T=
he World," Seth Godin, MBA, Agent of Change; New York Times Bestselling Aut=
hor of Tribes: We Need You To Lead Us; Founder, Squidoo.com

Jeffrey Sachs, PhD, Director of Earth Institute at Columbia University; Que=
telet Professor of Sustainable Development, Professor of Health Policy and =
Management, Columbia University; Special Advisor to Secretary-General of th=
e United Nations Ban Ki-moon

Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, MD, MPH, Health Coordinator, Millennium Village Projec=
t

Leaders of Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship Speakers

Gene Falk, Co-Founder, Executive Directors, mothers2mothers

Scott Hillstrom, Chairman of the Board, CEO and Co-Founder, HealthStore Fou=
ndation

Kevin Jones, Co-Founder, Good Capital

Nancy Lublin, CEO, Do Something

Nicholas Lumpp, Cofounder, Somaly Mam Foundation

Joia Mukherjee, MD, MPH, Medical Director, Partners in Health; Director, In=
stitute for Health and Social Justice; Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical=
 School; Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities, Brigham and W=
omen's Hospital

Ajay Nair, MBBS, MPH, Portfolio Associate, Acumen Fund

Billy Shore, JD, Founder and CEO, Share Our Strength

Kevin Starr, MD, Rainer Arnhold Fellows Program, Mulago Foundation

Gary White, Executive Director, WaterPartners

Andrew Wolk, CEO, Root Cause

Plus 200 Featured Speakers, including:

Ron Adelman, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Yale University=
 Eye Center

Jesus Aguais, Executive Director, Aid for AIDS

Astier Almedom, DPhil, Professor of Practice in Humanitarian Policy and Glo=
bal Public Health

Agbessi Amouzou, PhD, Assistant Scientist, Institute for International Prog=
rams, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Tom Arnold, CEO, Concern Worldwide

Jane Aronson, MD, Director, International Pediatric Health Services; Founde=
r and Executive Officer, Worldwide Orphans Foundation (WWO); Clinical Assis=
tant Professor of Pediatrics, Weill Medical College of Cornell University

Bob Bollinger, MD, MPH, Professor of Infectious Diseases and International =
Health; Director, Center for Clinical Global Health Education, Johns Hopkin=
s University

Peter Bourne, MA, MD, Visiting Scholar, Oxford University; Vice Chancellor =
Emeritus, St. George's University; Formerly Special Assistant to the Presid=
ent of the United States for Health Issues; Chair, Medical Education Cooper=
ation with Cuba (MEDICC)

Kathleen Casey, MD, FACS, Director, Operation Giving Back, American College=
 of Surgeons

James Clarke, MD, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Crystal Eye Clinic,=
 Ghana

Luz Claudio, MD, Associate Professor of Community and Preventive Medicine, =
Chief of the Division of International Health, Mount Sinai School of Medici=
ne

Paul Cleary, PhD, Dean of Public Health, Chair, Epidemiology and Public Hea=
lth; Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Public Health, Yale University School of=
 Public Health

Gustavo V. de Moraes, MD, Research Assistant Professor, NYU School of Medic=
ine, Department of Ophthalmology, New York Eye and Ear Infirmary

Prabhjot Dhadialla, PhD, Program Director of Health Systems, Development an=
d Research, Columbia Center For Global Health and Economic Development, Com=
munity Health Worker Advisor, Millennium Village Project

Zoravar Dhaliwal, CEO, Community Lab

Amir Dossal, Executive Director, UN Office for Partnerships

Margaret Duah-Mensah, RN, ON, Ophthalmic Nurse, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana

Harvey Fineberg, MD, PhD, President, Institute of Medicine of The National =
Academies

Susan Forster, MD, Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Medical Stud=
ies, Department of Ophthalmology, Yale School of Medicine; Chief, Ophthalmo=
logy, Yale University Health Services

Kevin Frick, PhD, Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Pu=
blic Health

Pape Gaye, President and CEO, IntraHealth International

Ilene Gipson, PhD, Senior Scientist, Schepens Eye Research Institute; Profe=
ssor, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School

Ashifi Gogo, Co-founder, Sproxil; Holekamp Family PhD Innovation Fellow, Th=
ayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth

Kate Grant, Executive Director, The Fistula Foundation

Laura Herman, Managing Director, Social Impact Advisors

Christopher P. Howson, PhD, Vice President for Global Programs, The March o=
f Dimes Foundation

Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena, PhD, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immuno=
logy, Malaria Research Institute, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health

Kaveh Khoshnood, PhD, Assistant Professor in Public Health Practice, Divisi=
on of Epidmiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health

Norman Kleiman, PhD, Director, Eye Radiation and Environmental Research Lab=
oratory, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Pub=
lic Health, Columbia University

Jamie Lachman, Clowns Without Borders

Robert Lawrence, MD, The Center for a Livable Future Professor, Professor o=
f Environmental Health Sciences, Health Policy, and International Health; D=
irector, Center for a Livable Future, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Pub=
lic Health

Ted London, PhD, Senior Research Fellow; Director, Base of the Pyramid Init=
iative, William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan

Pamela Lynam, MD, Country Director Kenya, JHPIEGO - Johns Hopkins Universit=
y

John McGoldrick, JD, Senior Vice President, International AIDS Vaccine Init=
iative (IAVI)

Carole Mitnick, Sc.D., Instructor, Department of Global Health and Social m=
edicine, Harvard Medical School

Mini Murthy, MD, MPH, MS, MPhil, CHES, Assistant Professor, Department of H=
ealth Policy and Management, Global Health Program Director, New York Medic=
al College School of Public Health

Ron Nabors, Chief Executive Officer, Christian Blind Mission-USA

Cliff O'Callahan, MD, PhD, FAAP, Pediatric Faculty, Family Practice Group; =
Director of Nurseries, Middlesex Hospital; Chair, AAP Section on Internatio=
nal Child Health

Rebecca Onie, JD, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Project HEALTH

Santa Ono, PhD, Sr. Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and Academic A=
ffairs, Emory University

David Oot, Associate Vice President for Health, Save The Children

Sung Chul Park, MD, Glaucoma Fellow, New York Medical College, New York Eye=
 and Ear Infirmary

Matthew Paul, MD, Danbury Eye Physicians and Surgeons

Steven Phillips, MD, Medical Director, Global Issues and Projects, ExxonMob=
il Corporation

Maryse B. Pierre-Louis, MD, MPH, MH/HSA, Lead HNP Specialist, Human Develop=
ment; Coordinator, Booster Program For Malaria Control in Africa, World Ban=
k Africa Region

Louis Pizzarello, MD, MPH, Secretary General, International Agency for the =
Prevention of Blindness

Suzanne Rainey, Forum One Communications

Rebecca Richards-Kortum, PhD, Stanley C. Moore Professor and Chair of Bioen=
gineering, Rice University

Majid Sadigh, MD, Assistant Clinical Professor, Internal Medicine, Yale Sch=
ool of Medicine

Sarwat Salim, MD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Tenne=
ssee-Memphis

Georgia Sambunaris, Senior Advisor to the Director, Office of Economic Grow=
th, US Agency for International Development

David Spiegel, MD, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; Assistant Professor=
, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Laura Stachel, MD, Bixby Center for Reproductive Health, UC Berkeley School=
 of Public Health

John E. Tedstrom, PhD, President and CEO, Global Business Coalition on HIV/=
AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GBC)

James C. Tsai, MD, Robert R. Young Professor and Chairman, Department of Op=
hthalmology and Visual Sciences, Yale University School of Medicine; Chief =
of Ophthalmology, Yale-New Haven Hospital

Seth Wanye, MD, Ophthalmologist, Eye Clinic of Tamale Teaching Hospital, Gh=
ana

Sheila West, PhD, El-Maghraby Professor of Preventive Ophthalmology, Wilmer=
 Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

David Zakus, BSc, MES, MSc, PhD, Director, Centre for International Health;=
 Associate Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health; Associate Profess=
or, Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation; Faculty of Medi=
cine, University of Toronto, Canada

Derek Yach, Vice President of Global Health Policy, PepsiCo

Rear Adm. Tim Ziemer, U.S. Malaria Coordinator, President's Malaria Initiat=
ive