April 14-15, 2007
Stanford University School of Medicine
Palo Alto, CA 94305

Speakers

"Logistics of Mass Drug Administration, The Case of Azithromycin For Trachoma Control", Sam Abbenyi, MD, MSc, Director, Program Planning and Analysis, International Trachoma Initiative
"Helping the Mon People of Western Thailand", Sameer Ali, MD Candidate, Wright State School of Medicine
"Public Private Partnerships to Provide Safe Drinking Water in Africa", Greg Allgood, PhD, Director, Children's Safe Drinking Water, Procter & Gamble
"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 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
"Project ECHO: Using "Knowledge Networks" For Complex Disease Care to Under Served Populations", Sanjeev Arora, MD, Executive Vice Chairman, Department of Medicine, University of New Mexico School of Medicine
"Community Based Rehabilitation: Setting the Foundations for Peacebuilding", Kathryn Azevedo, Ph.D., ATRIC, CMP
"Title To Be Announced", Thomas Baah, MD, Our Lady of Grace Catholic Hospital, Ghana
"Pursuing a Ghost: Fostering Sustainable Health Care in Developing Countries", Salvador Baldizon, MD, MA, MPH, Health Protection Specialist, Free From Hunger
"A Volunteer Journey in Chennai, India", Ravin Bastiampillai, BSc Candidate, University of Alberta
"Infectious Diseases and Human Rights: Making Research Matter", Daniel Bausch, MD, MPH,&TM Associate Professor, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
"Social Investing and Entrepreneurship in the Business of International Development", Philip Berber, Founder, Chairman, A Glimmer of Hope Foundation
"Building A Foundation For Success in Northern Ghana - The Possibilities and Challenges of Community Outreach Projects", Joseph Bergsten, BS Candidate, University of New Mexico
"Vision Care in the Developing World - What Kind, if any, Compromise Do We Want To Make On Quality? Quality is in Equality", Paul Berman, OD, FAAO, Senior Global Clinical Advisor and Founder, Special Olympics Lions Clubs, International Opening Eyes
"Visioning Tibet", Melvyn D. Bert, MD, F.A.C.S., Director, Lhasa Eye Program, Tibet Vision Project; Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology, University of California, San Francisco; Distinguished AOA Professor, S.U.N.Y Upstate Medical University
"Leprosy & HIV/AIDS: History Repeats", W.S. Bhatki, MD, Mumbai District AIDS Control Society, Mumbai Medical Director, Child Family Health International
"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
"Optimizing Prevention: A Comprehensive PMTCT Program in Mombasa, Kenya", Lara Christine Bishay, and Nicholas Gavin, MD Candidate, New York 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
"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
"Implementation of Adolescent Sexual Health Education in El Salvador", Gabriel Brat, MSc, MD Candidate, Stanford University School of Medicine
"International Eye Banking", Allen Brown, Executive Director, Connecticut Eye Bank and Visual Research Foundation, Tissue Banks International
"New Approaches to Social Entrepreneurship in International Health and Development", Martha Campbell, PhD, President and Founder, Venture Strategies for Health and Development; Lecturer and Co-Director, CEIHD, Center for Entrepreneurship in International Health and Development, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley
"Mobilizing a Profession Toward Philanthropic Giving: The Practice Giving Program To End Global Refractive Error Blindness", Pamela Capaldi, Bsc, AAS, Director of Operations and Development, Optometry Giving Sight
"Manual SICS vs. Phaco - Randomized Prospective Trial in a Nepalse Cataract Camp", David Chang, MD
"Leprosy Rehabilitation in India", Robert A. Chase, MD, Emile Holman Professor of Surgery, Emeritus, Stanford University School of Medicine
"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 at Buduburam Refugee Camp in Ghana", James Clarke., MD, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana
"The State of Health Care and Education in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone", Alex P. Columbus, Peace Pals Education Network, Sierra Leone
"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
"One Earth: The Interface Between Biomedical Research and Communities", Anna Cooper., MPH Candidate, University of Rochester School of Public Health
"Public Health and Economic Outreach Accomplishments in Croatia", Carol Cotton, PhD, MEd, Department of Health Promotion and Behavior, University of Georgia College o and Rusty Brooks, PhD, Professor and Assistant Director of the International Center for Democratic G
"Microfinance and Health: New Synergies and Opportunities", Alex Counts, President, Grameen Foundation USA
"Histology of the Eye", Pat Cross, PhD, Professor and Associate Dean for Medical Student Research and Scholarship, Stanford School of Medicine
"Perspectives on Volunteering in Western Thailand", Maria Cuellar, BA Candidate, Reed College
"Preventing Malaria During Pregnancy: Intermittent Preventative Treatment on Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea", Josephine Czechowicz, MD Candidate, Stanford University
"Life Sciences and Health in Africa", A.S. Daar, DPhil, FRCP, FRCS, FRCSC, Senior Scientist, McLaughlin-Rotman Centre, Professor of Public Health Sciences and Professor of Surgery, University of Toronto; Co-Director, Canadian Program on Genomics and Global Health; Director of Ethics and Policy, McLaughlin Centre for Molecular Medicine; Senior Fellow, Massey College, University of Toronto
"Passing on the Gift: Heifer's Approach to Sustainable Development and Program Expansion", Jim DeVries, MD, Senior Vice President of Programs, Heifer International
"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
"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
"Changing Trends in Glaucoma Diagnosis", Syril Dorairaj, MD, Glaucoma Service at New York Eye & Ear Infirmary
"Sustainable Eye Care in the Developing World with ORBIS", Gordon Douglas, MD, Medical Director, Orbis International
"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
"Title To Be Announced", Margaret Duah-Mensah, Ophthalmic Nurse, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana
"Title To Be Announced", Margaret Duah-Mensah., Ophthalmic Nurse, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana
"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 Vision Health Initiative; Christopher Maylahn, MPH, Epidemiologist, Chronic Disease Division of New York State Department of Health; Jeff Todd, JD, Senior Vice President, Prevent Blindness America
"Innovations in Developmental Relief", Dave Eastman, MPH, MBA, Emergency Response Coordinator, Relief International
"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
"Techniques For Manual Small Incision Cataract Surgery", Peter Egbert, MD, Professor, Stanford Department of Ophthalmology
"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
"Global/Social Entrepreneurship", Kamran Elahian, , MS, Chairman, Co-Founder, Global Catalyst Partners; Co-Founder, Global Catalyst Foundation and Schools Online
"Public Private Partnerships to Advance Technologies for Neglected Disease", Christopher Elias, MD, MPH, President of PATH
"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
"An Eye Opener in Chennai, India", Unite For Sight Film
"Cross-Cultural Partnerships for Reproductive Health", Anne Foster-Rosales, MD, Chief Medical Officer
"Capacity building for HIV prevention, treatment, and care in the Ural Region of the Russian Federation", Linda Frank, PhD, MSN, Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh
"Technology Social Entrepreneurship", Jim Fruchterman, Chairman and Founder, The Benetech Initiative
"Advocacy and Community Health", Gabriel Garcia, MD, Professor of Medicine, Associate Dean of Medical School Admissions, Stanford University School of Medicine
"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
"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
"With Women Worldwide: Sexual and Reproductive Rights and Health to End HIV/AIDS", Adrienne Germain, President, International Women's Health Coalition
"Eye Health Promotion in Southern Rwanda", Egide Gisagara, Medical Student, National University of Rwanda
"Advances in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Retinopathy of Prematurity", William Good, MD
"Rapid Skill Transfer Through Clinical Mentoring: A Universal, Fast Approach To Scaling Up HIV Practical Expertise in Developing Countries", Katie Graves-Abe, MIA, Director of Operations, International Center for Equal Healthcare Access
"Perspectives on Tamale From A Unite For Sight Volunteer", Nicholas Greene, Unite For Sight Volunteer in Tamale, Ghana
"Preparing To Volunteer in Ghana", Nicholas Greene., Unite For Sight Volunteer in Tamale, Ghana
"A UK Ophthalmologist's India Eye Care Experience", Jasvir Grewal, MD, Ophthalmologist, UK
"RICE: Remote Interaction, Consultation, and Epidemiology - A New Use For Cell Phones", Eliot Grigg, MD Candidate, George Washington University School of Medicine
"The War on AIDS - Integration Equals Impact", George Guimaraes, President and CEO, Project Concern International
"River Blindness Control and Elimination Programs", Ken Gustavsen, Manager, Global Product Donations, Merck & Co, Inc
"HIV/AIDS in China", Jessica Haberer, MD, MS, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, UCSF
"Metabolic and Nutritional Cataract", Heskel Haddad, MD, New York Medical College
"Globalization and the Health Workforce: Historical Perspectives, Future Challenges", Tom Hall, MD, DrPH, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCSF 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
"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
"Microbicides for HIV and STI Prevention: Opportunities and Challenges", Polly F. Harrison, PhD, Director, Alliance for Microbicide Development
"Cultural Competence in Global Health: Linguistic Solutions to Cross-Cultural Complications", T.S. Harvey, PhD, Assistant Professor of Linguistic Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University
"Interplast: Using Innovative Technology to Improve Surgical Care in Developing Countries", Susan Hayes, President and CEO, Interplast
"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
"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
"Why Wait Until Graduate School? Developing Global Public Health Training For Undergraduates Through A Multi-National, Interdisciplinary Comparative Study Program", Christina T. Holt, MD, MSc, Assistant Clinical Professor, University of Vermont Medical School
"The Perfect Storm? - XDR TB (extensively drug-resistant TB) and HIV/AIDS", Timothy Holtz, MD, MPH, FACP, International Research and Programs Branch, Division of Tuberculosis Elimination, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
"Analysis of Water Quality in Villages Within The East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea", Helena Horak, MD Candidate, Stanford University School of Medicine
"The Globalization of Ophthalmology", Dunbar Hoskins, MD, Executive Director, American Academy of Ophthalmology
"Trickle Up: Breakthroughs in Wheelchair Technology from Developing Countries", Ralf Hotchkiss, Co-Founder, Chief Engineer and Principal Instructor, Whirlwind Wheelchair International
"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
"The Challenge of Treating Complex Obstetric Fistula in Eritrea", Amreen Husain, MD, Assistant Professor of Gynecologic Oncology, Stanford University
"Prevalence of Refractive Error in a Refugee Population in Thailand", Alex Ilechie, OD, Department of Optometry, Faculty of Science, University of Cape Coast
"World Bank-Assisted Cataract Blindness Control Project in India", Eirini Iliaki, MD, MPH, Harvard School of Public Health
"Current Challenges in Glaucoma Management", Andrew Iwach, MD, Glaucoma Research & Education Group, American Academy of Ophthalmology Secretary for Communications
"How To Start a Unite For Sight Chapter at Your University", Sachin Jain, MPH, MD Candidate, Rush University; Unite For Sight Director of North America Initiatives
"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
"What America Knows: A National Telephone Survey on Eye Health and Disease", Rosemary Janiszewski, 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
"Healthcare Needs and Opportunities in Afghanistan - Collaborating Across The Sectors", Kulsum Janmohamed, MD, MPH
"Quality of Care Gives Bolivian Indigenous Women Opportunities for a New Future", Lynn Johnson, Bolivia Country Director, EngenderHealth
"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
"The HIV/AIDS Pandemic, Community Response and Disease Specific Activism", David Katzenstein, Professor of Medicine, Infectious Disease, Stanford University School of Medicine
"Atrocities and Social Entrepreneurship", Zachary Kaufman, MPhil in International Relations; DPhil candidate in International Relations, University of Oxford; JD candidate, Yale University Law School.
"To Save Newborn Lives", Quynh Kieu, MD, Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, University of California at Irvine
"Making Mental Health a Priority in Belize", Cheryl Killion, PhD, RN, Associate Professor, Case Western Reserve University
"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
"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
"Beyond Firewood: Fuel Alternatives and Protection Strategies for Displaced Women and Girls", Sandra Krause,, MPH, BSN, Reproductive Health Project Director, Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children
"Opportunities For Prevention of Rheumatic Heart Disease: A Picture of RHD in India", Rajesh Krishnamoorthi, MD, Madras Medical College and Government General Hospital, Chennai, India
"Community Eye Care - The Right Solution For The Growing Need", Muralidharan Krishnamurthy, President, Sankara Eye Foundation
"Infinite Vision - The Story of Dr. V(enkataswamy) and the Aravind Eye Care System", Pavithra Krishnan, Filmmaker
"Partnerships in Public Health", Jacob Kumaresan, MD, MPH, Dr.PH, President, International Trachoma Initiative
"Cultural and Behavioral Precursors to "Severe" Malaria on the Thai - Myanmar Border", Peter Kunstadter, PhD, University of California, San Francisco (retired)
"Healing through Laughter - An Innovative Psychosocial Response to the HIV/AIDS Crisis in Southern Africa", Jamie McLaren Lachman, Project Njabulo Director, Clowns Without Borders
"Trends and Successes of the Global AIDS Epidemic", Peter R. Lamptey, MD, DrPH, President, Family Health International Institute for HIV/AIDS
"Sexual and Reproductive Health 12 Years After Cairo: Successes, Setbacks and Challenges", Ana Langer, MD, President and CEO, EngenderHealth
"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
"Factors Associated with Poor Follow-up in Glaucoma Patients in South India", Bradford Lee, MSc, MD Candidate, Stanford University
"An Effective Model of Rural Microfinance", Brian Lehnen, Executive Director and Co-Founder, Village Enterprise Fund
"Title To Be Announced", Tom Lewis, Southern Eye Associates, Sierra Leone
"HBV: The Untold Story of an Asian Epidemic", Steven Lin, MD Candidate, Stanford University School of Medicine
"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
"Increasing Income, Confidence and Business Growth Through Effective Business Education for Low Income People", Fiona Macaulay, Founder and President, Making Cents
"A Company's Vision For Social Responsibility: The Case of Cinepolis in Mexico", Alejandro Ramirez Magana, Director General, Cinepolis
"Social Capital and Hypertension in Rural Haitian Women", Cris Malino, MPH
"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
"Eye Disease and Art", Michael Marmor, MD, Professor of Ophthalmology, Stanford University
"Glaucoma and Volunteerism", Roger Martin, Allergan/Lumigan Glaucoma Screening Activist
"Women With Disabilities Show The Way: How Women With Disabilities in 42 Countries Wrote A Health Handbook Together", Jane Maxwell, MPH, Editor, Hesperian
"A Vision in Chennai", Prachi Mayenkar, BA/MD Candidate, University of Missouri-Columbia
"Title To Be Announced", Christopher Maylahn, MPH, Epidemiologist, Chronic Disease Division of New York State Department of Health
"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
"The HIV Pandemic in the Developing World", John McGoldrick, Senior Vice President, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI)
"Corneal Blindness in the Developing World: Impact and Therapeutic Challenges", Stephen McLeod, MD, Theresa M. and Wayne M. Caygill MD Endowed Chair; Professor and Chairman, Department of Ophthalmology, University of California San Francisco
"Maximizing the Available Resources: The Intersections of the Individual Human Right to Health and Collective Right to Development", Benjamin Mason Meier, , JD, LLM; PhD Candidate, IGERT-International Development and Globalization Fellow and Ashley M. Fox
"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
"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
"Unite For Sight Eye Care Programs in Chennai, India", Pradeep Mettu, MD Candidate, University of Kentucky College of Medicine
"Building Capacity for a Local Response to HIV/AIDS in Kenya", Debra Millar, BSN, MSN, PHN, RN, Country Director - Kenya, CHF International
"Teaching In Another Culture: Nursing and Midwifery Education in Liberia", Carolyn A. Miller
"Health and Human Rights: The Impact of War on Vision and Ocular Health", Derek Mladenovich, OD, MPH Candidate, Fellow, World Council of Optometry; External Examiner, International Rescue Committee, Thailand
"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
"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
"International Women's Health and Human Rights", Anne Firth Murray, Founding President, The Global Fund for Women; Consulting Professor, Human Biology Program, Stanford University
"Is Women's Health a Human Right?", Mini Murthy, MD, MPH, MS, Assistant Professor, Department of Behavioral Science and Community Health, New York Medical College School of Public Health
"The Human Rights of Children in India", Mini Murthy., MD, MPH, MS, Assistant Professor, Department of Behavioral Science and Community Health, New York Medical College School of Public Health
"Volunteering With Unite For Sight in New Delhi", Sidhant Nagrani, MD Candidate, Medical College of Georgia
"Project Phokas: Photography, Film, and Eye Care", Michael Nedelman, BS Candidate, Yale University
"Preventive Services ToolKit Workshop: How To Get The Bureacracy and Legislature To Do What You Want Them To Do", Joel Nitzkin, MD, MPH, DPA, Principal Investigator and Project Manager, AAPHP Preventive Services ToolKit Project
"Innovations in Global Health Education", Thomas Novotny, MD, MPH, Director of International Programs; Professor in Residence, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCSF School of Medicine
"The Philosophies of International Care: Do No Harm", Cliff O'Callahan, MD, PhD, Middlesex Hospital Family Practice Program
"The Philosophies of International Care: Do No Harm", Cliff OCallahan, MD, PhD, Middlesex Hospital Family Practice Program; Chair, American Academy of Pediatrics Section on International Child Health
"Training Nigerian Health Workers on the Use of the Non-Pneumatic Anti-Shock Garment For Obstetric Hemorrhage", Shola Olorunnipa, MD Candidate, Stanford University
"Perspectives on Volunteering in Ghana", Hafeezah Omar, BS Candidate, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
"Examining Glaucoma at Buduburam Refugee Camp in Ghana", Sally Ong, BS Candidate, Duke University
"Working Towards a Brighter Tomorrow", Ken Onu, MD
"Bihar Summer Unite For Sight Volunteer: Perspiration, Inspiration and Mangoes", Kristin Ow
"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
"The Polio Eradication Partnership: Some Lessons Learned", Carol Pandak, Manager, Division of PolioPlus, The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International
"Kasensero: The Forgotten Village Coming Out of the Shadow", Kiran V. Patel, MD, Resident, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine
"Patterned Scanning Laser Photocoagulation: a New Approach to Retinal Treatment", Yannis Paulus, MD Candidate, Stanford University
"Listening to Women's Voices: Lessons Learned from Congolese Refugee Women in Rwanda", Carol Pavlish, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor, UCLA School of Nursing
"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
"Title To Be Announced", James Phills, Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior; Louise and Claude N. Rosenberg Jr. Director of the Center for Social Innovation; Director of the Strategy for Nonprofit Organizations Executive Program, Stanford Graduate School of Business
"Mobilizing War-Torn African Communities to Improve Public Health", Cornelius Pratt, MA, PhD, Presidential Professor of Strategic and Organizational Communication, Temp and E. Lincoln James, PhD, Washington State University
"Light of the Himalayas", Himalayan Cataract Project
"Community Eye Care - The Right Solution For The Growing Need", R.V. Ramani, MBBS, Founder and Managing Trustee, Sankara Eye Foundation
"Internationalizing The Broselow Pediatric Emergency Tape: How Reliable is Weight Estimation in Indian Children?", Naresh Ramarajan, MD Candidate, Stanford University School of Medicine
"Unite For Sight in Chennai, India", Preethi Ravichandran, DO Candidate, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
"Childhood Blindness in Sri Lanka", Habiba Rawoof, MBBS, DOphth, M.Sc.CEH, Ophthalmologist, Sri Lanka
"Addressing the Root Causes of Disease in Haiti", Venkita Suresh and Ian Rawson, MD, CEO/Directeur General, Hopital Albert Schweitzer Haiti
"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
"Developing a Global Ecosystem to Foster Youth Social Entrepreneurs", William Reese, President and CEO, International Youth Foundation
"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
"Problems With Glaucoma Care Delivery in a Developing Nation", Alan Robin, MD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Hospital
"Love, Labor, Loss, and a Day in the Life: Two Film-Based Campaigns Addressing Obstetric and Traumatic Fistula in Niger, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Burkina Faso", Lisa Russell, MPH, Filmmaker
"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; Special Advisor to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan
"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
"Pediatric Glaucoma", Sarwat Salim, MD
"Public Private Partnership on Health Sector Reforms in Indian Context", Sarang Samal, MA, Director, NYSASDRI
"Social Impact Through Public Private Partnerships in Entrepreneurship and Health", Georgia Sambunaris, MA, Financial Sector Specialist, USAID/EGAT, Office of Economic Growth
"Education in Africa: Foreign Aid to the Rescue?", Joel Samoff, Consulting Professor, Center for African Studies, Stanford University
"Preventing Cervical Cancer in Low Resource Settings: It Is About The Vision Thing", Harshad Sanghvi, MD, Medical Director, Maternal and Neonatal Health Program, JHPIEGO Corporation
"Emergency Medical Care Systems in Low and Middle Income Countries", Scott Sasser, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine
"Ophthalmic Disaster Preparedness", Daniel Schainholz, MD
"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
"Delivering HIV Prevention and Care Services to Rural African Villages Through Christian and Muslim Religious Groups", Ellen S. Schell, RN, PhD, International programs Director, Global AIDS Interfaith Alliance
"Changing Latitudes and Attitudes: Measuring the Impact of Global Health Immersion", Steven Schmidbauer, Executive Director, Child Family Health International; Clinical Assistant Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine
"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
"Surgical and Ophthalmic Needs in Western Thailand", Tamilarasan Senthil, MBBS, Consulting Ophthalmologist, Uma Eye Clinic, India
"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
"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
"Ensuring Equitable Access to Skilled Maternity Care", Jill Sheffield, President, Family Care International
"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
"A Global Perspective for Vision Research", Paul Sieving, MD, PhD, Director, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health
"Does Screening for Glaucoma Make Sense in the Developing World?", Kuldev Singh, MD, MPH, Professor of Ophthalmology, Director of Glaucoma Service, Stanford University
"Role of Retinal Evaluation in Cataract Surgery", Pooja Sinha, MBBS, Ophthalmologist, AB Eye Institute, Patna, India
"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
"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
"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
"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
"Interactive Teaching AIDS: Promoting Awareness Despite Social Barriers", Piya Sorcar, MA, PhD Candidate, Stanford University
"International Ophthalmology: Structure and Function", Bruce Spivey, MD, President, International Council of Ophthalmology
"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?", Robert Stamper, MD
"RPE Transplantation in Macular Degeneration", Boris Stanzel, MD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Ophthalmology, Stanford University School of Medicine
"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
"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
"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
"Biominetic Artificial Cornea", Christopher Ta, MD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, Stanford University
"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
"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
"Hypertension Control in Primary Control Settings in the Republic of Georgia", Fred Tavill, MD, DpH, Senior Program Consultant, Center for International health
"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
"Title To Be Announced", Jeff Todd, JD, Vice President Programs and Public Health, Prevent Blindness America
"Delivery Mechanisms For The Prevention of Blindness in Difficult Environments", Stephen Tomlin, Vice President of Program, Policy and Planning, International Medical Corps
"Constructing a Curriculum for Global Youth Social Entrepreneurship", James Toole, PhD, President, Compass Institute; University of Minnesota
"Tamale Eye Clinic: What We Did, What We Couldn Not Do, and What We Are Doing", Kim N. Tran, BA Candidate, Dartmouth College
"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
"Global Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV: Challenges for Low Resource Settings", Landry Tsague, MD, William H. Foege Fellow, Department of Global Health at Emory Rollins School of Public Health
"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
"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
"A Medical Student's Perspective on Volunteering With Unite For Sight", Ana Carolina Victoria, MD Candidate, Albert Einstein School of Medicine
"The Estimated Burden of Blindness and Vision Impairment Among Refugees and Displaced Populations", Jerry Vincent, OD, MPH, International Rescue Committee - Health Unit; Blindness Prevention Consultant
"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
"International Medical Relief NGOs: Following the Money, the Wars & the Government Contracts--Trying to Do Good While Maintaining Your Integrity", Richard M. Walden, President & CEO, Operation USA; former Commissioner of Hospitals, State of California; Civil Rights and International Lawyer
"Eye Care Services in Northern Region, Ghana: The Role of NGOs", Seth Wanye, MD, The Eye Clinic of Tamale Teaching Hospital, Ghana
"The Role of Student Volunteerism to Achieve Vision2020 in Ghana", Seth Wanye., MD, The Eye Clinic of Tamale Teaching Hospital, Ghana
"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
"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
"Partnering For Progress: The "State" of Cervical Cancer Prevention in the US", Sarah Wells, MA, Associate Director, Women in Government
"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, and Steve Szydlowski, MBA, MHA, PhD Candidate, Medical University of South Carolina
"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
"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
"Service Learning for College Students: Cross-Cultural Partnerships", Tanya Whitehead, PhD, University of Missouri - Kansas City
"Caring For Glaucoma Globally: Five Important Issues", M. Roy Wilson, MD, MS, Chancellor, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center
"Providing Eye Care in Patna, India", Leigha Winters, BA Candidate, 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 Essence of Communication in Medical Practice", Elliott Wolfe, MD, Consulting Professor of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine
"The Evolution of Sight", Elliott Wolfe., MD, Consulting Professor of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine
"Remote Eye Care in the Himalayas", Vinay Yagnik, BS Candidate, University of California at Berkeley
"Restricted Access to the Medical Literature: A Global Health Crisis", Gavin Yamey, MD, MRCP, Senior Editor, PLoS Medicine; Consulting Editor, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
"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 Global Micro-Clinic Project: Health Care from the Bottom Up", Daniel Zoughbie, Founder and Executive Director, Global Micro-Clinic Project
"Expanding Community Case Management for Childhood Diseases in Conflict-Affected Countries: Scale and Impact in Rwanda and South Sudan", Emmanuel d'Harcourt, Senior Child Survival Technical Advisor, International Rescue Committee
"Bringing Child Survival to Scale: The Achievement and Promises of Community Treatment in Three Post-Conflict Countries", Emmanuel dHarcourt, Senior Child Survival Technical Advisor, International Rescue Committee
"Access to Antiretroviral Medicines: The Brazilian Case", Katia de Souza Alves, MD, MPH, Clinical Science Research Associate, Stanford University School of Medicine

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Biographies of Speakers

Sam Abbenyi, MD, MSc, Director, Program Planning and Analysis, International Trachoma Initiative

Dr Sam-Abbenyi is a Cameroonian physician with a lot of experience in community primary health care experience. Upon graduating from Medical School in Cameroon (October 1980), Sam worked as District Medical Officer, under the Ministry of Health. He did an outstanding job in reducing the prevalence of trypanosomiasis through mass screening of the population and treatment of patients (1981-1984). He also charted the endemic focus of Paragonimiasis in the district of Fontem. Following his work in Fontem, Sam worked in both the clinical and community services at Tiko District Hospital and at the Provincial Hospital for the South West Province in Limbe (1984-1988). His work earned him a fellowship award from the International Development Research Center, Ottawa, Canada to read for the MSc in Community Health at the University of Montreal (1998-2000).

Sam returned to Cameroon after his Masters program and was appointed Deputy Director of Epidemiology in the Ministry of Health, Yaoundé, Cameroon. He was the coordinator of a program to control potentially epidemic diseases such as meningitis, cholera and yellow fever. He also managed diligently the dracunculiasis eradication program. Sam received a Ministerial award as a leader of the team that eliminated dracunculiasis from Cameroon (1990 - 1996).

Sam left the Ministry of Health and joined the National Epidemiology Board of Cameroon where he was a team leader of a research unit. He conducted six province-wide studies on the prevalence and risk factors of cancer of the breast, cervix and the prostate as well as on arterial hypertension and diabetes mellitus. These were conducted in order to establish baseline data for chronic diseases in Cameroon.

Later Sam worked as consultant with the World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa on the surveillance of epidemic prone diseases in Congo (Brazzaville), Namibia and Uganda and on HIV/AIDS. His skills in consultant services made him work for the International Unit of the Department of Montreal on standardizing training curricula on syndromic approach for the management of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in five West African countries where the University of Montreal was implementing STI/HIV/AIDS control projects.

Sam has also worked in the Great Lakes Region of Africa in 1998-2003 as Health Program Coordinator of the American Refugee Committee (ARC), Reproductive Health Coordinator at CARE International/Rwanda and Health Coordinator of the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo.

In July 2003, Sam moved from Africa to John Snow Inc, DELIVER Project in Arlington, Virginia as the HIV - AIDS Advisor, a year later Sam was appointed Director of Program Plannings and Analysis at the International Trachoma Initiative in New York. During the past 18 months Sam assisted seven trachoma control programs, namely: Ethiopia, Ghana, Mali, Nepal, Niger, Tanzania and Viet Nam in designing national trachoma strategic plans 2005-2009.

Sameer Ali, MD Candidate, Wright State School of Medicine

Sameer Ali is a third year medical student attending the Boonshoft

School of Medicine at the Wright State University in Dayton, OH. His

interest in ophthalmology was sparked after his grandfather in India

went blind due to glaucoma. He pursued his interest working as an

ophthalmic technician for the Retina Associates of Cleveland in

Cleveland, OH prior to starting medical school and spent a summer

volunteering at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute trying to understand

the role of the Wnt Pathway during retinal degeneration. He is one of

the founders of the Wright State University's chapter of Unite For Site

and organizes vision screenings at a government sponsored free clinic

in Dayton, OH.

Greg Allgood, PhD, Director, Children's Safe Drinking Water, Procter & Gamble

Dr. Greg Allgood is the Director, Children's Safe Drinking Water at Procter & Gamble. Dr. Allgood has been with P&G for 20 years and leads P&G's efforts to provide safe drinking water in the developing world. He has a PhD in Toxicology from North Carolina State University and a Master of Science in Public Health from the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, where he did research in the water area.

The focus of the Children's Safe Drinking Water program is provision of safe drinking water through a novel household water treatment product called PUR Purifier of Water. This program won the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) World Business Award in 2004, the Stockholm Industry Water Award in 2005, and the inventors of the PUR product were recognized as Inventor's of the Year in 2006. Dr. Allgood is chair of the communications working group of WHO's International Network to Promote Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage and serves on the interim steering committee of The Global Water Challenge.

R. Rand Allingham, MD, Professor of Ophthalmology; Director, Glaucoma Service, Duke University Eye Center

R. Rand Allingham, MD, is a Professor of Ophthalmology at the Duke University Eye Center, Durham, North Carolina. He is an ophthalmic surgeon who is a subspecialist in the field of glaucoma. He is Director of the Duke University Glaucoma Service, one of the largest clinical and research glaucoma programs in the United States. Dr. Allingham’s research is primarily devoted to the understanding of the genetics of glaucoma and other inherited disorders. He has studied glaucoma in many regions of the United States as well as many foreign countries including Iceland, Canada, India, Nepal, and Africa. He and his research collaborators have successfully identified the location of several major genes for POAG. Identification of genes is a significant achievement that will lead to critical new insights into the cause of glaucoma and open the door to novel treatment for this and other forms of this blinding disease. In addition to genetic linkage studies, Dr. Allingham is a collaborator on projects designed to identify protein expression in the trabecular meshwork, aqueous humor proteins in the normal and glaucomatous eye, and new surgical approaches to treat glaucoma.

Katia de Souza Alves, MD, MPH, Clinical Science Research Associate, Stanford University School of Medicine

Dr. Katia de Souza Alves completed her medical training in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases in Brazil, and subsequently completed HIV epidemiology research at UCSF. She completed her MPH at Berkeley. She completed laboratory research at Stanford from 2002-2004 before accepting a position at Vaxgen.

Mark E. Anderson, President and CEO, Center For International Health

Mark Anderson joined the Center for International Health in March 2003 as Executive Director and was recently appointed as its’ President. The Center is a consortium of Milwaukee-based academic and medical institutions, as well as medical service corporations created to improve global health.

Mr. Anderson received a Master of Science Degree in Hospital and Health Administration in 1980 from the University of Alabama-Birmingham. He served in senior hospital administration posts for over 25 years including a tenure of 20 years at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, serving as its Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer from 1991 – 2000.

Before joining the Center, Mr. Anderson was employed by Project HOPE from 2000-2003 as Senior Executive Director, Medical Operations (Asia/Middle East).

Additionally, Mr. Anderson has served extensively on local community Boards and on the Boards of internationally focused Non-Governmental Organizations. In 1997, Mr. Anderson received a Masters of Arts in Theological Studies (MATS) degree from McCormick Seminary, Chicago, Illinois.

Sanjeev Arora, MD, Executive Vice Chairman, Department of Medicine, University of New Mexico School of Medicine

Dr. Arora is a Professor of Medicine and Executive Vice-Chair, Department of Internal Medicine at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center (UNMHSC). He is a therapeutic endoscopist and hepatologist and has had a research interest in the treatment of Hepatitis C for more than 15 years. Dr Arora has founded Project ECHO (Extension of Community Healthcare Outcomes), an innovative method of healthcare delivery and clinical education for the management of complex, common and chronic diseases, in underserved areas, using hepatitis C as a model. Project ECHO is a partnership of academic medicine, public health offices, corrections departments and rural community clinics dedicated to providing best practices and protocol-driven healthcare in rural areas equal in safety, efficacy and outcome to that delivered in university-based specialty clinics. Telemedicine, audio conferencing and internet connections enable specialists to co-manage patients with complex diseases using case-based knowledge networks and learning loops.

Systematic monitoring of treatment outcomes is an integral aspect of the project, and he hopes this methodology may be generalized to other complex and chronic conditions such as HIV disease, tuberculosis and substance abuse in a wide variety of underserved areas, including the developing world, to improve disease outcomes. His research in this area is funded by the Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality of the federal government. Dr. Arora has been recognized by the New Mexico Legislature and State Health Department for his contribution to the care of underserved populations in New Mexico. He has participated in many other community oriented lectures to present information on Hepatitis C to patients, families and other interested public.

Dr Arora served as Governor for New Mexico for the American College of Gastroenterology from 1996-2002. He has served as President of University Physician Associates, member of the Clinical Operations Board and President of the Medical Staff at University of New Mexico Hospital and Health Sciences Center. Dr Arora is married to Dr Madhu Arora, an internist at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. They have two children Anita (22) who attends Dartmouth Medical School and Sarah (20) an undergraduate at Stanford University.

Kathryn Azevedo, Ph.D., ATRIC, CMP

Kathryn Azevedo began her studies in health policy research by examining access to medical insurance among agricultural workers home-based in the Coachella Valley, one of the poorest rural regions in California. Her dissertation documents how policy regulations of health insurance programs facilitate or limit access to medical care services. An important finding was that medical insurance coverage did not always improve the use of medical services by members of farmworker households. Based on these dissertation research findings, she testified in front of the California State legislature. This work helped to change Medi-Cal policy for those who migrate between counties for work. As a Senior Research Associate of the Tomás Rivera Policy Institute, Kathryn examined the issue of Latino under-enrollment in California public insurance programs and ways to increase enrollment of eligible non-participating Latinos. She assisted in the report, "Insuring California's Health Future: Use of Medi-Cal and Healthy Families Public Insurance Programs by California's Ethnic Minorities ." At the California Institute for Rural Studies, she worked on the project "Binational Farmworker Networks' Interface with Healthcare." This work is profiled in the report, " Suffering in Silence: A Report on the Health of California's Agricultural Workers."

At Stanford Medical Center, Kathryn works as a clinical medical anthropologist on several research projects in the Department of Urology with Christopher K. Payne, M.D. While a post-doctoral fellow in clinical research, she received funding for the project, "The Psychosocial Economic Impact of Invisible Chronic Disease: Examining the Experience of Patients with Interstitial Cystitis (IC)." The data for this research was collected from a retrospective chart review of 362 patients, analysis of extensive logbooks, and the data from 50 structured ethnographic patient interviews. Along with examining medical and life histories, and performing basic descriptive statistical analysis, special attention went to gathering illness narratives. This research was recently published as the lead article in the December 2005 journal, Sexuality and Disability and was chosen for podium presentation at the American Urological Association Conference in Atlanta in May 2006.

In addition to her post-doctoral work at Stanford, she has worked on more than 15 clinical trials. These projects vary from physician initiated, industry sponsored, to NIH funded. Katryn has practical experience in coordinating multi-center industry sponsored clinical trials, consulting on NIH trials, designing clinical trials, writing protocols and multiple grants, and working with Institutional Review Boards. While a post-doctoral fellow in clinical research at Stanford, Kathryn developed a 3-quarter curriculum in international health that she taught to Stanford medical students in 2003.

Salvador Baldizon, MD, MA, MPH, Health Protection Specialist, Free From Hunger

Salvador R. Baldizón has nearly 30 years of experience in international development as senior manager, technical advisor and consultant for multisectorial community-development programs including basic health care, nutrition, water and sanitation, HIV/AIDS, food security, agriculture, income generation and humanitarian assistance in Latin America, Africa and Asia.

Dr. Baldizón currently assists the Microfinance and Health Project (MAHP) in the development and testing of health protection products, services, linkages and consumer education that meet the needs and demands of the rural poor and the microfinance institutions that serve them. He has an M.D. degree from the University of San Carlos in Guatemala, an M.PH. degree from Harvard and an M.A. in Applied Communication Research from Stanford. Dr. Baldizón speaks fluent Spanish and English.

Ravin Bastiampillai, BSc Candidate, University of Alberta

Ravin Bastiampillai is a pre-medical student, currently in his third year in a BSc General program at the University of Alberta. Although he holds a strong interest in Biological Science, Ravin's main focus is to attain an entrance into Medical School, where he hopes to achieve his lifelong dream of practicing Medicine internationally in areas where the need is the greatest.

Additionally, Ravin is the Vice President of Finance with the University of Alberta's UFS Chapter, and is also an executive of the Pre-Medical Students' Association on his campus. As well, he is currently working on a research project within the Gastroenterology unit.

Ravin traveled to Chennai, India, in May 2006 through the Unite for Sight internship program, where he experienced the uplifting nature of volunteering internationally. His three weeks in India involved learning about the eye and eye diseases at the local eye clinic, visiting village camps to screen for potential patients, and observing phaco-emulsification cataract removal surgeries.

Daniel Bausch, MD, MPH,&TM Associate Professor, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine

Daniel Bausch, MD, MPH&TM, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Tropical Medicine at the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in New Orleans, LA. He is Board-certified in internal medicine and infectious diseases with a master's degree in public health and tropical medicine. Dr. Bausch specializes in tropical viruses and has extensive experience in research, outbreak control, community health development, and medical training in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and Asia. He also has a keen interest in the role of the scientist in promoting health and human rights.

Philip Berber, Founder, Chairman, A Glimmer of Hope Foundation

After graduating from University College Dublin in Ireland in 1979, Philip Berber moved to England where he worked in the marketing departments of several major American corporations before forming Financia, his first hi-tech startup in 1988. In 1991, the sale of that company brought Philip to the United States and four years later he moved to Austin and formed CyBerCorp, an online trading firm that would eventually be acquired by the Charles Schwab organization. In 2000, he was named Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year for Austin and he was also a finalist for the national award. After retiring from business in March 2001, he joined his wife Donna at their family foundation A Glimmer of Hope and began applying his business acumen to the world of International Aid. Since then, the foundation has funded more than 2,000 development projects in Ethiopia and had an impact in the lives of approximately 2 million people there; A Glimmer of Hope also provides support to disadvantaged youth in London and Austin. According to Tibor Nagy, the former US Ambassador to Ethiopia, Philip’s new model of philanthropy has helped make the foundation one of the most effective approaches to private assistance in the world today. In 2002, the Berbers were featured in Worth Magazine among its 25 Most Generous Young Americans and made Business Week’s list of the 50 Most Generous Philanthropists for the first time at number 40.

Joseph Bergsten, BS Candidate, University of New Mexico

Joseph Bergsten is a 25-year old university student at the University of New Mexico and will receive his bachelor's degree in Biology and French in December 2006. He is a native of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Over the past six years, he has lived and worked in several countries throughout West Africa. From 2000 to 2002, he served as a volunteer missionary in Ivory Coast and Togo working with individuals from across West and Central Africa. As he offered service in churches, hospitals, and orphanages, he became personally awrae of the many health and developmental problems facing the rural areas within these countries. During the last four months of his service, he also experienced the tragic effects of war in the Ivory Coast, and witnessed the unfortunate socioeconomic challenges that faced the individuals of the country.

After completing 3 years of school at University of New Mexico, he returned to West Africa to work as a Unite For Sight volunteer with Dr. Wanye in Tamale Teaching Hospital in Northern Ghana. As a volunteer, he participated in school and rural eye screening projects, and assisted in finding and treating individuals with common eye diseases such as trachoma, cataracts, and refractive error. Currently, he is working with several of fthe other Unite for Sight volunteers to send new eye equipment to Dr. Wanye and the Eye Clinic of Tamale Teaching Hospital. During the next few years, he hopes to further his education by studying medicine so that he can become a doctor and continue working as a healthcare provider in West Africa.

Melvyn D. Bert, MD, F.A.C.S., Director, Lhasa Eye Program, Tibet Vision Project; Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology, University of California, San Francisco; Distinguished AOA Professor, S.U.N.Y Upstate Medical University

After graduating from the State University of New York, Upstate Medical Center, Dr. Bert did an internship at San Francisco General Hospital. He then served 2 years in the U.S. Air force during the Veitnam War. After this

he spent 3 years residency at the world renowned New York Eye and Ear Infirmary where he trained in ophthalmology. He has been appointed Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of California, San Francisco, where he teaches medical students and residents in ophthalmology. He served as Chief of Ophthalmology at Marshal Hale Memorial Hospital, which is now part of the california Pacific Medical Center. He is Board Cerfified by the American Board of Ophthalmology. In addition, he is a Fellow in the prestigious American College of Surgeons (F.A.C.S.). He is also a Fellow in the American Academy of Ophthalmology. In 2006, he became Distinguished AOA (National Medical Honor Society) Professor at the S.U.N.Y., Upstate Medical University. Dr. Bert is the Director of the Lhasa Training Program for the Tibet Vision Project. "Dr. Yogi" as he is known, assisted in the earliest founding of the Project and has worked and taught in Tibet on numerous occasions. Dr. Bert is in private practice in San Francisco.

Marion Billings, MSc, Executive Director, Global Health Through Education, Training and Service

Marion Billings, MSc is the Executive Director of Global Health through Education, Training and Service (GHETS). GHETS is a non-governmental, non-profit organization based in the USA, dedicated to improving health in developing countries through innovations in education and service. GHETS provides start-up grants to local training institutions in low-income countries, and the technical help to launch and improve programs that prepare and support healthcare workers in rural and poor communities.

Ms. Billings received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brown University in Human Biology with a focus in Human Health and Disease. She also received an MSc in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine at the University of London in the United Kingdom. In the past she has worked extensively with an emerging cohort of adolescents with perinatally-acquired HIV in New York City, working to address the unique and complex set of psycho-social issues faced by that population. She has also worked on a number of research projects at Brown University and at The King’s Fund in the United Kingdom.

Lara Christine Bishay, and Nicholas Gavin, MD Candidate, New York University School of Medicine

Lara Bishay and Nicholas Gavin are currently second year medical students at New York University School of Medicine. During the summer of 2006 they

traveled together to Mombasa, Kenya to work at Bomu Medical Centre where

they conducted health systems research on prevention of mother-to-child

transmission of HIV. For 2006-2007, Nick is serving as president of Physicians for Human Rights at NYU SoM. In that capacity, he and Lara have organized Generation Hope-a collaborative effort that benefits AIDS orphans in Lilongwe, Malawi. Lara is an active member of Physicians for Human Rights at NYU SoM as well as a steering committee member of the New York City Free Clinic. Nick earned a B.A. with honors in biology from NYU's College of Arts and Science in May 2005. Lara graduated in June 2005 from Harvard University with a B.A. in biochemical sciences.

Brian Blackburn, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Infectious Diseases, Stanford School of Medicine

After completing medical school in Chicago, Dr. Blackburn completed his internal medicine residency and infectious diseases fellowship at Stanford University Medical Center. He then served two year's in CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service, working on projects involving Sudanese Refugees, bednets for lymphatic filariasis and malaria control in Nigeria, and several outbreaks. He is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor of Infectious Diseases at Stanford University School of Medicine.

Susan Blumenthal, MD, MPA, Former US Assistant Surgeon General, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown School of Medicine and Tufts University Medical Center

Rear Admiral Susan J. Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.A, an internationally recognized health expert, served as U.S. Assistant Surgeon General and Senior Science and E-Health Advisor in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and as a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University School of Government. She is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown and Tufts Schools of Medicine and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Women’s Studies at Brandeis University. Dr. Blumenthal served as the government’s top women’s health expert as the first ever Deputy Assistant Secretary of Women’s Health and a White House advisor on these issues. She has been a pioneer in bringing women’s health to increased scientific and public attention and has also been a major force in advancing other public health issues including global health, mental illness, disease, suicide and violence prevention. Dr. Blumenthal has been at the forefront of the national response to terrorism and other emerging disease threats including pandemic flu. She has been a leader in applying information technology to improve health establishing several award winning health websites. Dr. Blumenthal has written numerous articles and books and served as the health columnist for US News and World Report and Elle magazines, as host and medical director for an award-winning television series on health and for a Discovery Channel/American Film Institute film series on global health. A leading national health advocate and spokesperson, Dr. Blumenthal has briefed Presidents, Heads of State and Health Ministers, testified before Congress, and often appeared as a medical expert on national television and news programs. She has received many honors for her landmark, innovative contributions and leadership in improving health and has been named as one of the most important and influential women in medicine.

Harry S. Brown, MD, Founder and President, SEE International

Dr. Brown is the founder of Surgical Eye Expeditions International, a humanitarian organization established to restore sight through surgery among the indigent blind of the world. The organization is often referred to by the acronym, SEE.

Under the auspices of SEE, medical teams led by eye surgeons bring their skills to blind patients in countries as distant as Borneo, Zimbabwe, Peru, and Mongolia, among many others. All SEE’s eye-care professionals perform their services without compensation, and defray their own expenses.

In the years since 1974 when Dr. Brown established SEE, the organization has benefited 1,000,000 patients in 84 countries. A total of 300,000 sight restoring surgical operations have been performed and, over the years more than 700 eye surgeons have participated in its far-flung surgical clinics.

Dr. Brown, a board-certified ophthalmologist, donated his services as Medical Director of SEE from its founding under his direction in 1974 until his retirement from active medical and surgical practice in 1992. During those years he

participated as an operating surgeon in 89 of SEE's clinics. He has served the

organization in the capacity of Chairman of the Board, President and CEO. SEE's headquarters are located in Santa Barbara, California.

In bringing to reality his goal of restoring sight to as many as possible of the world’s blind population, Dr. Brown created several practical innovations which contributed to converting his humanitarian concept into practical medical reality. The portable surgical kits he devised contain all the surgical equipment and related medical supplies required for conducting SEE’s surgical clinics. Often those clinics have been established in primitive circumstances. As part of Dr. Brown's conception of SEE’s activities, the medical supplies and some of the surgical equipment which surgical teams bring into a host country are left behind for the use of local medical personnel when the team leaves.

Over the years, SEE has been the beneficiary of substantial charitable donations to further its humanitarian work. Many of the supplies and some of the equipment SEE uses are donated by medical and pharmaceutical companies in the United States and abroad.

SEE’s governing board of directors is a blue-ribbon panel drawn from among individuals of prominence in several walks of life. A limited number of full-time staff members are employed in SEE’s Santa Barbara office, and numerous individual volunteers have donated thousands of hours of work in SEE’s support.

At SEE's inception Dr. Brown established the requirement that eye surgeons participating in the organization’s surgical missions be fully certified as ophthalmologists by their governing professional boards in the United States or, in the case of foreign surgeons, in

their home countries. SEE comprises chapters in 84 countries. Assisting the operating surgeons are registered nurses and technicians skilled in operating room techniques, in addition to associated medical and administrative personnel with various professional

qualifications. All are unpaid volunteers.

Dr. Brown graduated in 1952 from the University of Missouri, which he attended as a four-year, all-expense scholarship student. During the Korean War he served three years as a line officer in the United States Navy, first aboard the battleship USS Iowa, and later on the heavy cruiser USS Newport News.

After completing his naval service, Dr. Brown attended medical school at George

Washington University in Washington, D.C., from which he graduated in 1959. He then practiced general medicine in Riverside, Calif., until 1967 when he was admitted to the Jules Stein Eye Institute, UCLA Medical Center for residency training in the specialty of

ophthalmology. Dr. Brown established a private ophthalmology practice in Santa

Barbara, California in 1971, and began formulating the concept that was to take shape as the SEE organization.

For services to mankind accomplished by the organization he founded, Dr. Brown has received recognition and awards in the United States and abroad. He has been honored by a tribute from the United States House of Representatives. The American Academy of Ophthalmology recognized him with its Outstanding Humanitarian Award and Special Recognition Award. Lions Club International bestowed on him its International President Award. The George Washington University Alumni Association recognized Dr. Brown with its Community Service Award, and he has received the Hampton Roy Medal from the World Eye Foundation. The St. Louis Society for the Blind and Visually Impaired honored him with the Leslie Dana Gold Medal Award. Rotary International bestowed on him its Paul

Harris Award. The Santa Barbara News-Press recognized him with its Lifetime Achievement Award.

Dr. Brown was elected a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons in 1980.

He is the father of four adult children, and the grandfather of nine.

Martha Campbell, PhD, President and Founder, Venture Strategies for Health and Development; Lecturer and Co-Director, CEIHD, Center for Entrepreneurship in International Health and Development, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley

Martha Campbell is a political scientist and health policy specialist focusing on the economics of international health and family planning. Before coming to Berkeley in 2000, she led the David and Lucile Packard Foundation’s population program, and developed its international component. In 2000 Dr. Campbell founded CEIHD with colleagues at Berkeley to build the case for more attention to public-private partnerships, in recognition that in many developing countries government health services are unable to reach a majority of the poor. In 2001 she founded the nonprofit organization Venture Strategies for Health and Development, an independent nonprofit organization working to improve the health of low income people in developing countries through use of existing market forces and business mechanisms, with attention to scale and sustainability. Designed to work with the School of Public Health at Berkeley, Venture Strategies responds to requests from its large informal network of colleagues around the world who are leaders in the medical communities and governments of developing countries. Dr. Campbell’s academic degrees are from Wellesley College and the University of Colorado.

Pamela Capaldi, Bsc, AAS, Director of Operations and Development, Optometry Giving Sight

Pamela is a Master's of Nonprofit Management candidate with specialties in

Resource Development and Leadership from Regis University in Denver,

Colorado. She earned her Bachelor of Science Degree from Ferris State

University with a specialty in Allied Health Education to compliment her

Optometric Technology Degree (Associate of Applied Science) from the

Michigan College of Optometry. She currently serves as Director of

Fundraising and Development for Optometry Giving Sight (OGS) - a Global

Campaign to support VISION 2020: The Right to Sight. OGS is a

collaborative effort between the International Agency for the Prevention of

Blindness (IAPB), the World Optometric Foundation (WOF) and the

International Centre for Eyecare Education (ICEE).

Pamela previously worked in global education with the International

Association of Contact Lens Educators (IACLE) as the Special Projects

Officer and was involved in developing global programs in contact lens

education, technical writing, public relations and marketing, and managing

the IACLE Continuing Education Program. She is the author of Module 10 of

the IACLE Contact Lens Course - The 'Business Aspects of Contact Lens

Practice' and the IACLE 'Technical Training Program'. Pamela was the

liaison to the Latin American region and LA regional coordinator in her

IACLE capacity.

As a trained ophthalmic technician she has worked in ophthalmology,

optometry and university clinical settings. She has extensive experience

with the eyecare industry working in International Professional Services for

Bausch & Lomb, and clinical research with CIBA Vision as well as VisionTech.

Pamela has published articles geared toward educating the eyecare staff and

delivered numerous lectures and training programs, domestically and

internationally. Currently her work with Optometry Giving Sight provides

an avenue to develop her strong interests in philanthropy and the

development of a service delivery resource network to tackle the global

challenge of refractive error blindness.

David Chang, MD

David F. Chang, MD is a Summa Cum Laude graduate of Harvard College and earned his M.D. at Harvard Medical School. He completed his ophthalmology residency at the University of California, San Francisco where he is now a clinical professor. Dr. Chang is Chairman of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) Annual Meeting Program Committee, having previously chaired the Cataract Program Sub-committee. He organized, and was the program co-chair for the first five AAO “Spotlight on Cataracts” Symposia.

Among his awards are the 1995 UCSF Ophthalmology Teaching Award, the 2001 Transamerica Lecture (University of California, San Francisco), the 2001 (Inaugural) Williams Lecture (UCSF Alumni Meeting), the 2002 Wolfe Lecture (University of Iowa), the 2003 Gold Medal from the India Intraocular Implant and Refractive Society (Chennai), the 2006 DeVoe Lecture (Columbia College Physicians & Surgeons), the 2007 Gettes Lecture (Wills Eye Hospital), the 2007 Helen Keller Lecture (Univ. Alabama, Birmingham), the 2008 Harvey Thorpe Lecture (Pittsburgh Ophthalmology Society), and the AAO Honor Award (2002) and Secretariat Award (2003 and 2006). He was the inaugural recipient of the UCSF Department of Ophthalmology’s Distinguished Alumni Award (2005), and received the 2006 Charlotte Baer Award honoring the outstanding clinical faculty member (of more than 2000 active clinical faculty) at the UCSF Medical School.

Dr. Chang is vice-chair of the AAO Practicing Ophthalmologist Curriculum Committee for Cataract and Anterior Segment, which developed the American Board of Ophthalmology knowledge base for the MOC examination. He is also on the AAO Cataract Preferred Practice Pattern Panel. Dr Chang is a member of the ASCRS Cataract Clinical Committee and the ASCRS Eye Surgery Education Council Presbyopia Task Force. He is on the scientific advisory board for the UCSF Collaborative Vision Research Group, American Medical Optics, Calhoun Vision, Medennium, Peak Surgical, and Visiogen, and is the medical monitor for the Visiogen Synchrony accommodating IOL FDA monitored trial. He is co-chief medical editor for Cataract and Refractive Surgery Today, and serves on the editorial boards for Ocular Surgery News, EyeNet, Video Journal of Ophthalmology, Highlights of Ophthalmology, and Comprehensive Ophthalmology Update. He is the cataract editor for two online educational sites: the American Academy of Ophthalmology’s “Specialty Clinical Updates”, and the Ocular Surgery News “Ophthalmic Hyperguides”. He is editor of the Cataract & Refractive Surgery Today Virtual Textbook of Cataract Surgery, and has also authored two surgical textbooks, Phaco Chop (Slack 2004) and Curbside Consults in Cataract Surgery (Slack 2007).

He has been in private practice in Los Altos, CA since 1984.

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

Dr James Afful Clarke graduated from the University of Ghana Medical School with an MBChB. After a year of internship at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Ghana, he worked as a General Practitioner and did a General Surgery Residency at the University of Saarland Medical Faculty, Germany and thereafter practiced as a general surgeon in Ghana. In 1996, he obtained a Postgraduate Diploma in Ophthalmology from the West African Postgraduate Medical College and has since been practicing as an ophthalmology. He also holds a Diploma in Community Health and Tropical Medicine from the Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in Berlin, Germany.

Dr. Clarke has done various clinical attachments at the University of Saarland Eye Clinic in Germany, Wake Forest Eye Center, Winston-Salem in North Carolina, Wheaton Eye Clinic in Chicago, and is a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology. He now runs an eye clinic in Accra, Ghana, where he provides outreach services in eye care and provides various surgical procedures, including corneal transplantation. He is the only ophthalmologist providing corneal transplantation in Ghana. Dr. Clarke is also a member of Unite For Sight's Medical Advisory Board and works closely with Unite For Sight's volunteers in Ghana.

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

Dr James Afful Clarke graduated from the University of Ghana Medical School with an MBChB. After a year of internship at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Ghana, he worked as a General Practitioner and did a General Surgery Residency at the University of Saarland Medical Faculty, Germany and thereafter practiced as a general surgeon in Ghana. In 1996, he obtained a Postgraduate Diploma in Ophthalmology from the West African Postgraduate Medical College and has since been practicing as an ophthalmology. He also holds a Diploma in Community Health and Tropical Medicine from the Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in Berlin, Germany.

Dr. Clarke has done various clinical attachments at the University of Saarland Eye Clinic in Germany, Wake Forest Eye Center, Winston-Salem in North Carolina, Wheaton Eye Clinic in Chicago, and is a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology. He now runs an eye clinic in Accra, Ghana, where he provides outreach services in eye care and provides various surgical procedures, including corneal transplantation. He is the only ophthalmologist providing corneal transplantation in Ghana. Dr. Clarke is also a member of Unite For Sight's Medical Advisory Board and works closely with Unite For Sight's volunteers in Ghana.

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

Dr James Afful Clarke graduated from the University of Ghana Medical School with an MBChB. After a year of internship at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Ghana, he worked as a General Practitioner and did a General Surgery Residency at the University of Saarland Medical Faculty, Germany and thereafter practiced as a general surgeon in Ghana. In 1996, he obtained a Postgraduate Diploma in Ophthalmology from the West African Postgraduate Medical College and has since been practicing as an ophthalmology. He also holds a Diploma in Community Health and Tropical Medicine from the Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in Berlin, Germany.

Dr. Clarke has done various clinical attachments at the University of Saarland Eye Clinic in Germany, Wake Forest Eye Center, Winston-Salem in North Carolina, Wheaton Eye Clinic in Chicago, and is a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology. He now runs an eye clinic in Accra, Ghana, where he provides outreach services in eye care and provides various surgical procedures, including corneal transplantation. He is the only ophthalmologist providing corneal transplantation in Ghana. Dr. Clarke is also a member of Unite For Sight's Medical Advisory Board and works closely with Unite For Sight's volunteers in Ghana.

Alex P. Columbus, Peace Pals Education Network, Sierra Leone

Mr. Alex Patrick Columbus is a founder and National coordinator of the Peace Pals Education Network Sierra Leone. The organization works with children and youths in the area of Peace Building and reconciliation, Peace Education, Child Rights Advocacy program, Formal and Non Formal education for war affected children. He partners with international and national organizations like Unite for Sight, Care International Sierra Leone, Plan International Sierra Leone, Refugee Education Sponsorship Programme Enhancing Communities Together (RESPECT) as a Country Coordinator in Sierra Leone by coordinating the entire RESPECT programmes in Sierra Leone.

In 1995, Alex was enrolled in the Government Technical Institute under City and Guilds Institute of London. He was a Tutor and head of Department at the Forum of African Women Educationalist (FAWE) Sierra Leone Chapter at the Girl Mothers Skills training and development centre at Grafton Sierra Leone for four years.

He also established a primary school for orphans, especially children who lost their parents during the time of the 11 years civil crisis in Sierra Leone. He deals also with HIV/AIDS sensitization programmes.

Anna Cooper, MPH Candidate, University of Rochester School of Public Health

Anna Cooper is a Master's of Public Health candidate at the University of Rochester. Her thesis topic is an occupational epidemiology study of cardiovascular disease mortality. Other studies she is currently involved with include: impacts of Direct-to-Consumer advertising on patient-physician communication and health service utilization; cardiometabolic risk education program evaluation in community medical centers; risk factors for Parkinson’s disease in post-menopausal women; and neurotoxic effects of pesticide exposure in agricultural workers. In January 2006, Anna initiated a Rochester Chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, which helps raise awareness of suicide through Community Awareness Walks and seminars. Anna obtained her Bachelor's of Science in Biochemistry and Philosophy from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. After working on the neurobiology of depression and suicide at Columbia University in New York, she spent June of 2005 as a volunteer for Unite for Sight in Bihar, India. The experience of working with Bihar's underserved communities underscored the importance of increasing public health awareness and solidified public health as her career path. Anna also finds joy in maintaining her lifelong passions of playing ice hockey and singing.

Anna Cooper., MPH Candidate, University of Rochester School of Public Health

Anna Cooper is a Master's of Public Health candidate at the University of Rochester. Her thesis topic is an occupational epidemiology study of cardiovascular disease mortality. Other studies she is currently involved with include: impacts of Direct-to-Consumer advertising on patient-physician communication and health service utilization; cardiometabolic risk education program evaluation in community medical centers; risk factors for Parkinson’s disease in post-menopausal women; and neurotoxic effects of pesticide exposure in agricultural workers. In January 2006, Anna initiated a Rochester Chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, which helps raise awareness of suicide through Community Awareness Walks and seminars. Anna obtained her Bachelor's of Science in Biochemistry and Philosophy from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. After working on the neurobiology of depression and suicide at Columbia University in New York, she spent June of 2005 as a volunteer for Unite for Sight in Bihar, India. The experience of working with Bihar's underserved communities underscored the importance of increasing public health awareness and solidified public health as her career path. Anna also finds joy in maintaining her lifelong passions of playing ice hockey and singing.

Carol Cotton, PhD, MEd, Department of Health Promotion and Behavior, University of Georgia College o and Rusty Brooks, PhD, Professor and Assistant Director of the International Center for Democratic G

Dr. Cotton is a faculty member in the Department of Health Promotion and Behavior in the College of Public Health at the University of Georgia. She teaches courses in Program Development, in Women�s Health, in International Public Health, and study abroad. For the past 6 years Dr. Cotton has been the Director of the Traffic Safety Research and Evaluation group. In this capacity she directs research funded by state and federal transportation agencies looking at seat belt usage behaviors, drunk driving and data collection in community settings. Dr. Cotton also is the undergraduate and graduate field experience and internship coordinator for the Department of Health Promotion. Dr. Cotton co-directs the UGA-Croatia Partnership, an endowed endeavor at the University of Georgia focused on economic and community development and public health issues in Croatia.

Dr. Rusty Brooks is currently a professor and Assistant Director of the International Center for Democratic Governance at the Carl Vinson Institute of Government at the University of Georgia, as well as the co-director of the UGA-Croatia Partnership. He received the International Community Development Society Award for Innovative Programming in 2000, and has authored more than 100 community-level studies across the United States. He is the coauthor of Transforming Your Community: Empowering for Change and has been published in numerous journals and other periodicals. Dr. Brooks’ program in the International Center for Democratic Governance focuses primarily on assisting government, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and the private sector in work related to sustainable economic development policies and practices. He has expertise in strategic planning for economic development and in the development of policies and practices that support heritage and cultural tourism and related development activities. He has worked extensively in international development activities in Australia, the Bahamas, Croatia, Germany, Slovenia, Ukraine, Zimbabwe, China, Georgia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Alex Counts, President, Grameen Foundation USA

Alex Counts is President and CEO of Grameen Foundation, a dynamic, nonprofit, Washington D.C.-based organization that has grown to a global network of 52 microfinance partners in 22 countries. Counts became Grameen Foundation’s first Executive Director in 1997, after several years honing his skills and vision in microfinance and poverty reduction. A 1988 Cornell University graduate, with a degree in economics, Counts’ commitment to poverty eradication deepened as a Fulbright scholar witnessing dire poverty as well as innovative solutions in Bangladesh. He then trained to be a catalyst for change under Dr. Muhammad Yunus, the founder and managing director of the Grameen Bank.

Through much of the 1990’s, Counts worked in Bangladesh establishing Grameen Bank’s flagship publication Grameen Dialogue, and working as a regional project manager for CARE-Bangladesh, CARE's largest mission worldwide. In between stints in Bangladesh, Count’s served as the legislative director of RESULTS, an international grassroots citizen's lobbying group working to create the political will to end hunger and that has played a leading role in advocating for increased funding and better targeting of resources to support global health, education and microfinance initiatives.

Counts founded Grameen Foundation (www.grameenfoundation.org) in 1997 with a mere $6,000 in seed capital and a charge from Dr. Yunus. This new organization was to play the role of catalyst, channeling human, financial and technological resources in the United States to support the growth of the poverty-focused microfinance movement.

Today, under Counts’ leadership, Grameen Foundation impacts an estimated eleven million lives in Asia, Africa, the Americas, and the Arab World.* Grameen Foundation’s annual budget has grown in each year of its existence, from $100,000 in 1997 to over $11 million in 2005, and its breakthrough impact has been chronicled in the Economist and elsewhere.

Counts has propelled Grameen Foundation’s philosophy and approach through numerous articles on poverty and microcredit for the poor and has authored a book entitled Give Us Credit: How Muhammad Yunus' Microlending Revolution is Empowering Women from Bangladesh to Chicago, which was published by Random House in 1996. The Indian edition of his book was the inspiration behind the establishment of Grameen Koota, a microfinance institution in Bangalore, India that served 14,000 women as of March 2005. He has been published in the Washington Post, the International Herald Tribune, the Miami Herald, the Christian Science Monitor and elsewhere.

Counts serves on the Board of Directors of two microfinance institutions. He chairs the board of Project Enterprise in New York City, and is a board member of Fonkoze USA that supports microfinance in Haiti, and the PLAN Fund, a microfinance institution serving low-income people in Dallas, Texas. He is also a member of the Board of Advisors of the Katalysis Bootstrap Fund and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Grameen Dialogue.

Counts speaks fluent Bengali and lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife Emily and cat, Seymour.

Pat Cross, PhD, Professor and Associate Dean for Medical Student Research and Scholarship, Stanford School of Medicine

Dr. Cross received her PhD in zoology from Tulane University in 1968. She served on the faculties of the University of Pennsylvania, where her focus was research on in vitro fertilization. She joined Stanford in 1976 as facilitator of laboratory design during the construction and opening of the Fairchild Building and was named lecturer in structural biology in 1977. Cross was promoted to associate professor in 1991 and full professor in 1998. She was named associate dean in 1992 and currently is responsible for preclinical advising and research, as well as serving as administrator of the Medical Student Scholars Program. Cross has won numerous teaching awards. She is the author of a widely regarded textbook, Cell and Tissue Ultrastructure: A Functional Perspective.

Maria Cuellar, BA Candidate, Reed College

Maria Cuellar is currently a second year physics student at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. She was born in Bogota, Colombia and went to high school in San Jose, Costa Rica, where she first fostered her interest in humanitarian work. Maria has volunteered in the Harvard ADA program, teaching 4-year-old children pre-reading skills. She has worked with abused girls at a school in Escazu, Costa Rica. She also helped indigenous tribes in Southern Chile start their own businesses, among other volunteer programs. Maria is a Spanish, Mathematics and Physics tutor at Reed College.

Maria's recent experience working with Unite for Sight in Western Thailand has motivated her to pursue a career in medicine.

A.S. Daar, DPhil, FRCP, FRCS, FRCSC, Senior Scientist, McLaughlin-Rotman Centre, Professor of Public Health Sciences and Professor of Surgery, University of Toronto; Co-Director, Canadian Program on Genomics and Global Health; Director of Ethics and Policy, McLaughlin Centre for Molecular Medicine; Senior Fellow, Massey College, University of Toronto

Dr. Daar is Professor of Public Health Sciences and of Surgery at the University of Toronto, where he is also Director of Ethics and Policy at the McLaughlin Centre for Molecular Medicine and Co-director of the Canadian Program on Genomics and Global Health.

After medical school in London, England, he went to the University of Oxford where he did postgraduate clinical training in surgery and also in internal medicine, a doctorate in transplant immunology/immunogenetics, and a fellowship in transplantation. He was a clinical lecturer in Oxford for several years before going to the Middle East to help start two medical schools. He took up the foundation Chair of Surgery in Oman in 1988, where he also headed the research labs.

He has published/co-authored five books (on tumour markers; surgical radiology; ethical, legal and social issues in organ transplantation; bioindustry ethics; and a forthcoming one on nutritional genomics) and has over 300 publications in immunology, immunogenetics, organ transplantation, surgery, and bioethics. He wrote (with J-F Mattei) the WHO Draft Guiding Principles on Medical Genetics and Biotechnology. He has been an expert advisor to WHO and OECD, and has recently completed, as chair, a report of the External Review Committee of the WHO/World Bank/UNDP/UNICEF Special Program on Tropical Diseases Research and Training. He was recently appointed by the African Union Commission to the high-level African Panel on Modern Biotechnology. Other recent co-authored work includes the report of the Canadian Bioethics Advisory Committee's Expert Working Party on Human Genetic Materials, Intellectual Property and the Health Sector.

He is a Senior Scientist at the McLaughlin Centre for Molecular Medicine, the Research Institute of the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, and Associate Scientist at the Mount Sinai Hospital Research Institute. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, the New York Academy of Sciences and a Senior Fellow of Massey College, University of Toronto. He is a member of the Ethics Committee of the Human Genome Organization. He holds the official world record for performing the youngest cadaveric donor kidney transplant. Dr. Daar is a member of the Canadian Biotechnology Advisory Committee Expert Working Party on Human Genetic Materials, Intellectual Property and the Health Sector (2004-) and of Expert Advisory Committee on Cells, Tissues and Organs (EAC-CTO), Health Canada (2004-); and Health Canada's Expert Advisory Committee on Cells, Tissues and Organ Regulation.

In 1999 he was awarded the Hunterian Professorship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. In 2005 he was awarded the Anthony Miller Prize for Research Excellence at the University of Toronto and also in 2005 the UNESCO Avicenna Prize for Ethics of Science. He has been a Visiting Scholar in Bioethics at Stanford University and Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto. Editorial boards include Kidney Forum, Clinical Transplantation Proceedings, Globalization and Health, Genomics, Society and Policy, and Genomic Medicine.

His current research interests are in ways of avoiding knowledge divides and in the exploration of how genomics and other biotechnologies can be used effectively to ameliorate global health inequities.

Jim DeVries, MD, Senior Vice President of Programs, Heifer International

Dr. James DeVries directs Heifer's Programs Division, which includes the areas of Africa, Americas, Asia/South Pacific and Central Eastern Europe. He provides leadership to the headquarters team as well as to Heifer’s on-the-ground staff around the world, developing and managing more than 500 programs through 38 country offices. He has been Director of Programs since 1992, being named Senior Vice President of Programs in 2003. He was also the Director of Africa/Near East Programs from 1982 to 1992. Prior to Heifer, Dr. DeVries was a professor and head of the Agricultural Extension and Education Department at Sokoine University in Tanzania. Dr. DeVries was born in The Netherlands and is fluent in English, Dutch and Swahili, as well as reading and understanding German. He has a Ph.D. in continuing and vocational education from the University of Wisconsin, an M.S. in cooperative extension (education) and a B.A. in history and religion from Bloomfield College in New Jersey.

Sudipta Dey, Director, Eye Micro Surgery and Diagnostic Center, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Dr. Sudipta dey is at present Diroctor of Eye Microsurgery &Diagnostic Centre, visiting eye surgeon of N.S.S. eye hospital and guest lecturer of Metropolitan Homeopathic Medical College. He is doing practice in clinical ophthalmology with special interest in surgery of anterior segment of eye.

Dr. Dey did his medical graduation from Medical college Kolkata, West Bengal, India, did residency training and post-graduation in ophthalmology from Regional Institute of Ophthalmology, Kolkata. He did his fellowship in general ophthalmology from Aravind Eye Hospital, Madurai and certificate course in community eye health from International Centre for Eye Health, University College, London. He did his Post Graduate Diploma in Hospital Administration – Institute of Health care Administration. Chennai.

As an administrative job he Worked as District Programme Manager & Secretary

District Blindness Control Society. 24 Parganas (S)West Bengal. India for five years and now working as treasure of Indian Alumni Group of ICEH; London.

He is the member of All India Ophthalmological Society, Ophthalmological Society of West Bengal, Tamilnadu Ophthalmic Association, Indian Alumni Group of ICEH; London.

As a researcher he had done epidemiological research on prevalence of blindness and visual outcome after cataract surgery in the district South24PGs, West Bengal . India under ICEH, University College, London. Funded by Foundation Dark & Light, The Netherland & assisted in doing West Bengal Glaucoma Study funded by DFID, U.K.

Presently involved in blind school survey and interested to know the role of LVA for the improvement of the quality of life of the blind persons. As a ophthalmologist in the homeopathic medical college he is very much interested to find out the application of Homeopathic medicines in the treatment of different types of eye diseases.

In his leisure hour and holdays he spend his time by doing eye check-up camp, eye care education camp in remote area with the help of Lions Club, Rotary Club and other different NGO’s as a hobby.

Claes H. Dohlman, MD, PhD, Professor of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School - Massachusetts Eye and Ear Institute

Claes Henrik Dohlman (1922) is an American ophthalmologist of Swedish origins. He was born in Uppsala, Sweden, and received his schooling in Lund. He received his M.D. degree in 1950 and then entered ophthalmology training in Lund under Professor Sven Larsson. The years 1952-54 were spent in fellowship training in the United States. Thus, for eighteen months he worked under Dr. Jonas Friedenwald, at the Wilmer Institute, Johns Hopkins Hospital, primarily on proteoglycan histochemistry. Eight months were spent at the Retina Foundation in Boston, supervised by Drs. Endre Balazs and Charles Schepens. More ophthalmology training followed back in Sweden. During the following years Dr. Dohlman continued his interest in biochemistry of the cornea and he finished his doctorate in biochemistry at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm on the metabolism of the sulfated proteoglycans in the cornea. His preceptors were Professors Lennart Roden, Harry Bostrom, Sven Gardell and Torvard Laurent. Dr. Dohlman was then promoted to “Docent” at the University of Lund. In 1958 he received an invitation to come to Boston and work at the then Retina Foundation (now Schepens Eye Research Institute), as well as at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and Harvard Medical School. This was preceded by three months of training in corneal surgery in Lyon, France, under Professor Louis Paufique. After his arrival in Boston, Dr. Dohlman started the Cornea Service at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary for clinical care of corneal patients, as well as related training and clinical research. He also started a laboratory for corneal physiology at the Retina Foundation. These activities grew substantially over the years to become a large referral service for complicated cornea patients, as well as a program for two year fellowship training and corresponding research in various aspects of corneal disease. Dr. Dohlman’s own research during this time changed from biochemistry to corneal physiology and included such problems as corneal edema and corneal nutrition. Also, a number of clinical studies on keratoplasty, corneal edema, herpetic infections and trauma were published, mostly together with fellows. In 1968 Dr. Dohlman was appointed Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School, 1969 Associate Professor, and in 1974 Professor of Ophthalmology. That same year he became Chairman of Harvard’s Department of Ophthalmology, Chief of Ophthalmology at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and Director of the Howe Laboratory of Ophthalmology at Harvard. He stayed in these administrative positions for a total of fifteen years. During this time there was less time for personal involvement in research but the previously recruited clinical colleagues and scientists continued the established research lines. In 1989, at the age of 67, Dr. Dohlman retired from the administrative positions but continued full time work with corneal patients, as well as with teaching and research. His interests gradually became more focused on the development of keratoprosthesis surgery. He and his clinical and laboratory collaborators have developed keratoprosthesis designs, surgical techniques, postoperative treatment and repair procedures to a degree that has made this procedure considerably more successful than previously. His bibliography lists some 260 publications. At this time (2006) Dr. Dohlman is still pursuing his work on a full time basis as Professor.

Syril Dorairaj, MD, Glaucoma Service at New York Eye & Ear Infirmary

Dr. Syril K. Dorairaj is the Director of Ultrasound Biomicroscopy Laboratory in Glaucoma Services at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary. He received his M.D. from Minto Regional Institute of Ophthalmology, India and has worked in the area of Ophthalmic Genetics at the Indian Institute of Science for two years. He is the Executive Director of Lindbergh Society founded for research into Exfoliation Syndrome. He has authored numerous scientific papers and presented at national and international conferences including American Academy of Ophthalmology on Glaucoma Genetics. Working with Dr. Robert Ritch, Dr. Dorairaj is co-authoring the Association of International Glaucoma Society Consensus-2006 on Medical and Laser Management of Angle Closure.

Lee T. Dresang, MD, Associate Professor, Department Maternity Care Clinical Coordinator, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

Dr. Lee Dresang is serving a four year term on the five-member ALSO Advisory Board and is an Associate Professor in the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health Department of Family Medicine. Dr. Dresang graduated from Indiana University School of Medicine before completing the University of New Mexico Family Medicine Residency and the Tacoma Family Medicine Rural Health Fellowship. He speaks Spanish and is responsible for having the ALSO course materials translated into Spanish. He has organized and taught ALSO courses in Paraguay, Ecuador, Guatemala and Honduras and has led two medical tours in Cuba. After working eight years in health center serving a mostly low-income, Latino community through the Milwaukee Campus of the UW DFM, Dr. Dresang recently transferred to Madison to take on the role of Departmental Maternity Care Clinical Coordinator.

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 Vision Health Initiative; Christopher Maylahn, MPH, Epidemiologist, Chronic Disease Division of New York State Department of Health; Jeff Todd, JD, Senior Vice President, Prevent Blindness America

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;

Dr. Duenas, a UAB School of Optometry graduate, is a nationally and internationally recognized speaker in the areas of ocular and systemic disease. His contributions to public health include peer reviewed articles and lectures on diabetes care, access to eye care, clinical guidelines and the importance of team approaches to care. His professional efforts over the past 23 years have spanned private clinical practice, teaching, advisory positions within state and federal agencies, non-profit organizations, and corporate research and development. He is now full time with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on special assignment to the National Vision Program.

Christopher Maylahn, MPH, Epidemiologist, Chronic Disease Division of New York State Department of Health

Christopher Maylahn is an epidemiologist in the Chronic Disease Division of the New York State Department of Health. His areas of principal focus are the development and evaluation of public health interventions for chronic diseases, as well as surveillance approaches to monitor prevalence and trends in the causes and outcomes of chronic diseases. His efforts have been devoted to cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, asthma, obesity, age-related eye diseases and epilepsy.

He received his MPH in chronic disease epidemiology from Yale University Department of Epidemiology and Public Health in 1978, worked for two years at the American Heart Association, Vermont Affiliate to develop a state hypertension control program, and then joined the New York State Health Department in 1980.

He has been an active member of the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors since the mid-1990s, serving as its president in 2000. He has participated on numerous task forces, expert panels, and committees where a state public health perspective is sought.

Jeff Todd, JD, Vice President Programs and Public Health, Prevent Blindness America

Jeff Todd joined Prevent Blindness America in early 2003. As Vice President of Programs and Public Health, he directs these key aspects of this long standing national non-profit (formerly the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness). In addition to leading a comprehensive vision health program funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Jeff coordinates agency-wide strategic planning and directs other key national programs including vision health and screening initiatives for children and adults, safety education programs, research initiatives, and information distribution efforts. Jeff brings with him a history in community development with a focus on youth-related issues. His diverse educational background includes degrees in business, communications, and law.

Jeff has worked in government, non-profit, and for-profit environments. Beginning his career in the Governor's Office of the State of Indiana, Jeff coordinated a statewide community development initiative focused on substance abuse prevention. He then moved to a position with the Center for Youth as Resources, coordinating field operations for this national organization focused on positive youth development. Prior to Prevent Blindness America, Jeff managed the National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center, a comprehensive resource of federal government, coordinated through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Dave Eastman, MPH, MBA, Emergency Response Coordinator, Relief International

David Eastman is the Emergency Response Coordinator for Relief International. He is responsible for ensuring that Relief International's aid efforts to disasters are swift and appropriate. He studied public health and business management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He has managed relief programs in war torn areas such as Afghanistan and Darfur, Sudan.

Peter Egbert, MD, Professor, Stanford Department of Ophthalmology

Dr. Peter Egbert is a Professor of Ophthalmology at Stanford University, where he directs the cataract service and the eye pathology laboratory. He graduated from medical school and ophthalmology residency at Yale University. He has taught and practiced ophthalmology in more than 20 countries. For the last 19 years, he has worked with International Aid developing self-sustaining eye clinics in Ghana, West Africa. His research has studied new methods of treatment for glaucoma and cataract in Ghana. In 2004, he received the Outstanding Humanitarian Award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology.

Kamran Elahian, , MS, Chairman, Co-Founder, Global Catalyst Partners; Co-Founder, Global Catalyst Foundation and Schools Online

Kamran Elahian is a veteran entrepreneur with over 28 years of experience in the high-tech industry. He is Chairman of Global Catalyst Partners, a global venture capital fund for investments in communication product companies, which he co-founded in 1999. He also serves as Chairman of six other organizations.

Kamran co-founded ten companies which include: CAE Systems (’81) a design automation software company; acquired by Tektronix for $75M, Cirrus Logic (’84) a fabless semiconductor company; IPO at $150M valuation, Momenta (’89) a pen-based computer company; failed within 3 years, NeoMagic (’93) a mobile multimedia IC company; IPO at $300M valuation, Centillium Communications (’97) a telecommunication IC company; IPO at $700M valuation.

Kamran also founded Schools Online (’96) a non-profit public charity organization with the goal to bring the Internet to under-served children in the world, and co-founded Global Catalyst Foundation (’00).

Christopher Elias, MD, MPH, President of PATH

Dr. Elias is president of PATH, an international, nonprofit, nongovernmental organization based in Seattle, Washington.

PATH creates sustainable, culturally relevant solutions that enable communities worldwide to break longstanding cycles of poor health. By collaborating with diverse public- and private-sector partners, PATH helps provide appropriate health technologies and vital strategies that change the way people think and act.

As president, Dr. Elias is responsible for PATH’s strategic, programmatic, financial, and management operations. PATH currently works in more than 100 countries in the areas of child and adolescent health, infectious diseases, maternal and reproductive health, and vaccines and immunization. PATH’s 2006 budget is $132 million, which is provided by foundations, the U.S. government, other governments, multilateral agencies, corporations, and individuals.

Prior to joining PATH, Dr. Elias was a Senior Associate in the International Programs Division of the Population Council. For six years, he served as the Country Representative in Thailand, where he managed reproductive health programs throughout Southeast Asia. In his earlier position with the Population Council in New York, Dr. Elias established and co-directed the Council’s public-sector research and development program for woman-controlled HIV prevention technology.

Dr. Elias earned his undergraduate and medical degrees from Creighton University in Nebraska; completed post-graduate training in internal medicine at the University of California, San Francisco; and received a Master of Public Health degree from the University of Washington, where he was a fellow in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program. He spent two years in Thailand working with refugee assistance programs, first as a physician supervising a large pediatric ward in a refugee encampment and then as a medical coordinator for the American Refugee Committee at the Thai-Cambodian border.

Anne Foster-Rosales, MD, Chief Medical Officer

Dr. Anne Foster-Rosales oversees medical services at all eight of PPGG’s clinics in five Bay Area counties. She is responsible for ensuring PPGG’s high quality of care and compliance with state and federal laws and regulations. She leads PPGG’s clinical research

and professional training programs.

Prior to joining PPGG, Dr. Foster-Rosales was an assistant clinical professor at University of California, San Francisco in the Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences

Department. Dr. Foster-Rosales has worked in Latin America, Africa and Asia training health care providers and policy makers in family planning services and pregnancy care. Dr. Foster-Rosales has served the community on a number of boards and advisory

committees including acting as the Chair of American College of Obstetricians and

Gynecologist’s Committee on International Affairs and as a member of its District IX Committee on State Legislation. As a Kellogg Scholar in Health Disparities, she deepened her commitment to bringing high quality, affordable health care to all. She received her MD from the University of New Mexico and her MPH from the University of California, Berkeley. She is fluent in Spanish.

Jim Fruchterman, Chairman and Founder, The Benetech Initiative

A 2006 recipient of the MacArthur Genius Award, James Fruchterman is an electrical engineer-turned-entrepreneur who adapts cutting-edge technologies into affordable devices for the visually impaired and others underserved by traditional commerce. As a student, Fruchterman designed a reading machine for the blind using optical-character-recognition technology originally intended for military defense purposes. Determined to keep the cost of his reading machine within reach of the largest number of users, Fruchterman founded the non-profit company, Arkenstone, to develop and manufacture the system. He has since delivered this reading tool in a dozen languages to people in 60 countries and created a stream of other inventions for the visually impaired, including Open Book, a PC software program that reads scanned texts ranging from school books to utility bills, Atlas Speaks map software, and Strider, a talking GPS locator. In 2000, Fruchterman founded another non-profit, Benetech, as an incubator for socially-oriented technology applications. With Bookshare.org, Benetech has created a web-based library of scanned books to provide people with visual or learning disabilities downloadable access to a dramatically increased volume of printed materials. Other initiatives include Martus, a secure, computer-based reporting system to assist the human rights sector in collecting, safeguarding, and disseminating information about human rights violations, and a Landmine Detector Project with the goal of placing state-of-the-art detection devices in the hands of humanitarian deminers in war-torn countries. Fruchterman puts existing technologies to use in innovative ways to make life-changing machines for those who need them most.

James Fruchterman received a B.S. (1980) in engineering and an M.S. (1980) in applied physics from the California Institute of Technology and pursued doctoral studies at Stanford University (1980-1981). Prior to founding Benetech, where he serves as president, CEO, and chairman, he was president, CEO, and chairman of Arkenstone, Inc. (1989-2000) and co-founder and vice president of Calera Recognition Systems, Inc. (1982-1989). Fruchterman also served as co-founder and CFO of RAF Technology, Inc. (1989-2004).

Gabriel Garcia, MD, Professor of Medicine, Associate Dean of Medical School Admissions, Stanford University School of Medicine

Dr. Gabriel Garcia, professor of medicine and associate dean of admissions at Stanford School of Medicine, became the Haas Center's second faculty director in September 2006, succeeding Leonard Ortolano. Garcia has been a member of the center's Faculty Steering Committee since 1998 and has served on its grants advisory committee. As faculty director, Garcia serves half time, focusing on policymaking, fundraising and teaching.

A hepatologist and Professor of Medicine at the Medical School, Garcia's research has focused on the natural history and treatment of viral hepatitis. He earned his medical degree from New York University, completed his postgraduate training at Stanford, and then joined Baylor College of Medicine, where he remained until 1989 when he returned to join the Internal Medicine faculty at Stanford. In addition to conducting clinical research, Garcia takes care of patients with liver diseases, teaches undergraduates and medical students, and engages with undergraduates in service-learning opportunities.

As Associate Dean of Admissions for the medical school (1999- ), Garcia observed many applicants' overemphasis on the science of medicine - at the expense of core humanistic values. To counteract this trend, he has taught a Stanford Introductory Seminar entitled The Human Side of Medicine, and participated as faculty advisor for two Alternative Spring Break trips on Health Care for Marginalized Communities. Together with Ann Banchoff, program director at the Office of Community Health, he teaches a year-long service-learning course entitled Patient Advocacy.

Adrienne Germain, President, International Women's Health Coalition

Adrienne Germain, President of the International Women's Health Coalition, has worked for 31 years to promote women's opportunities, health, and rights in developing countries. Prior to this, Ms. Germain worked at the Ford Foundation for 14 years, designing and managing programs and projects to support women's work and credit opportunities, as well as girls' and women's health and education, in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. She holds a Masters in Sociology from the University of California at Berkeley.

Egide Gisagara, Medical Student, National University of Rwanda

Egide Gisagara is a fifth year medical student at the National University of Rwanda. He is President and Coordinator of Unite For Sight's Rwanda Chapter, Vice President of Medical Students Association of Rwanda (MEDSAR) and National Exchange Officer for the Outgoings IFMSA-Rwanda

William Good, MD

William Good is currently Senior Scientist at the Smith-Kettlewell Eye research Institute. He conducts research on visual development in premature infants, cortical visual impairment, and retinopathy of prematurity. He also has a private practice in San Francisco. As Chair of the Early Treatment for Retinopathy of Prematurity Study (ETROP), he reseaches, along with investigators from all over the US, new treatments for ROP. The ETROP Study has shown that earlier treatment for high risk prethreshold ROP improves outcomes. The study is following children to the age of 6 years.

Katie Graves-Abe, MIA, Director of Operations, International Center for Equal Healthcare Access

Ms. Graves-Abe initially became involved with ICEHA as an operational volunteer while pursuing her Masters degree in International Affairs at Columbia University in New York City. As part of her graduation requirements, she joined a team of 6 graduate students who assessed the feasibility of ICEHA’s contribution to Cambodia’s HIV/AIDS program. As the daughter of a Foreign Service Officer, Ms Graves-Abe spent a significant time living overseas and experiencing development issues first hand. Prior to joining ICEHA, Ms. Graves-Abe worked as a Policy Analyst at The Alliance for the Betterment of Citizens with Disabilities and as the Program Coordinator for the America Reads After-School Literacy Program at Columbia University.

Ms. Graves-Abe has a Masters in International Affairs in Economic and Political Development from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and a BA in Sociology from Barnard College.

Nicholas Greene, Unite For Sight Volunteer in Tamale, Ghana

Nick Greene was born in Seoul, South Korea. He was adopted at the age of 2 after being abandoned at a Police station in Seoul. He is a pre-medical student with a B.S. in Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior at UC Davis. After graduating from UC Davis, he has past research experience in Genetics, Emergency Medicine, and Neurology.

His first interest in humanitarian work happened after realizing that research only offered so much participating in health care. Unite For Sight was his

first opportunity to get involved with volunteer work in developing countries. Since then, he has been working towards starting a non-profit that collects

medical supplies and equipment for hospitals in developing countries.

Nicholas Greene., Unite For Sight Volunteer in Tamale, Ghana

Nick Greene was born in Seoul, South Korea. He was adopted at the age of 2 after being abandoned at a Police station in Seoul. He is a pre-medical student with a B.S. in Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior at UC Davis. After graduating from UC Davis, he has past research experience in Genetics, Emergency Medicine, and Neurology.

His first interest in humanitarian work happened after realizing that research only offered so much participating in health care. Unite For Sight was his

first opportunity to get involved with volunteer work in developing countries. Since then, he has been working towards starting a non-profit that collects

medical supplies and equipment for hospitals in developing countries.

Jasvir Grewal, MD, Ophthalmologist, UK

Dr Jasvir Singh Grewal B.Sc, MBBS, MRCSEd(Ophthalmology), Specialist Registrar in Ophthalmology, London, UK. He has trained in many leading centres in the UK, Birmingham, Oxford and London. He has maintained an International interest in Ophthalmology undergoing Clinical observerships in Moorfields Eye Hospital, UK, Wills Eye Hospital, USA, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Miami, USA, Tarabai Eye Hospital,India. He has performed Cataract and Eye camps in India as a Unite for Sight Volunteer.

He has a background of Laboratory research in Neurosciences and Animal Retina Studies. He has published in Internationally recognised eye journals whilst still in training. He has served as a researcher in national level audit studies in the UK. He is a well recognised Clinical lecturer in Ophthalmology for the Royal National Institute for Blind, UK.

George Guimaraes, President and CEO, Project Concern International

George Guimaraes is the President and Chief Executive Officer for Project Concern International, the $37 million San Diego headquartered health and humanitarian aid organization. Mr. Guimaraes has a long-term commitment to the health and well-being of children in addition to a wealth of experience in both business and non-profit management. From 1997 to 2003. Mr. Guimaraes was Vice President of Global Marketing for Save the Children, responsible for external communications, donor development, foundation relations and corporate partnerships.

Prior to his non-profit experience, Mr. Guimaraes had more than 30 years of marketing and advertising management experience. He served in executive positions with several major advertising companies, including President and CEO of Compton Partners, a division of Saatchi & Saatchi, N.A.; Chairman and CEO of Publicis Bloom, New York; Vice Chairman and Regional Director of Young & Rubicam; and President of Ketchum Advertising, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C. During his management tenure he was involved in pro bono campaigns for Volunteers of America’s 100th Anniversary, the New York Urban Coalition and Save the Children.

Mr. Guimaraes also held leadership positions for a number of volunteer service and educational organizations in his own community of Bronxville, New York and New York City throughout his career. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Community Health Improvement Partners and the La Jolla Country Day School in San Diego. Guimaraes earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Northwestern University

Ken Gustavsen, Manager, Global Product Donations, Merck & Co, Inc

Kenneth Gustavsen is Manager, Global Product Donations for Merck & Co., Inc. His responsibilities include the management and strategic development of all activities associated with the Merck Mectizan Donation Program for onchocerciasis (river blindness) and lymphatic filariasis. Ken also manages Merck's donations of other pharmaceutical products and vaccines through the Merck Medical Outreach Program. In 2005, Merck donated $437M worth of medicines, including Mectizan(r), to health programs and disaster response efforts throughout the developing world.

Prior to joining Merck in 2000, Ken directed post-war relief and development activities in Kosovo for the non-profit agency World Relief. Ken served as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy after graduating from the United States Naval Academy with a Bachelor of Science degree in oceanography, and is currently completing a Masters of Business Administration degree at Rutgers University.

Jessica Haberer, MD, MS, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, UCSF

Jessica Haberer received her MD from Yale and completed a residency in internal medicine at UCSF, followed by a fellowship in health services research at Stanford. She has been working with the William J. Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative in China since 2004. She is based in Beijing and seconded to the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for AIDS, where she acts as a clinical and research advisor for the Division of Treatment and Care. Her major policy endeavors include the establishment and expansion of the national pediatric antiretroviral (ART) program, development of the national adult second line ART plan, and creation and implementation of a fellowship to build clinical capacity in underserved areas. Her research projects include adherence to ART in injection drug users, pediatric ART resistance patterns and nutritional deficiencies, use of prophylactic trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, and combination of traditional Chinese medicine with Western ART. Addtionally, Dr. Haberer consults on HIV/AIDS patients in national referral hospitals.

Tom Hall, MD, DrPH, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCSF School of Medicine

Thomas L. Hall, MD, DrPH, is lecturer in the UCSF Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Executive Director of the Global Health Education Consortium. He received undergraduate, MD and MPH degrees from Harvard and his DrPH degree in international health from Johns Hopkins. He has held appointments in the schools of public health of the Univ. of Puerto Rico, Johns Hopkins, Univ. of NC at Chapel Hill, and the Univ. of Washington (Seattle). At UNC he was director of the Carolina Population Center. Non-academic positions have included medical director of a rural hospital, director of a regional health planning agency, and Chief Medical Officer (Research) in the New Zealand Dept. of Health (1985-86). He joined UCSF in 1988, directed a postdoctoral training program in HIV prevention research (1989-96) and since then has taught and mentored students international health. He has consulted with WHO, the World Bank and many countries on strategic health workforce planning. He is primary author of the WHO ToolKit for Human Resources Development.

Tom Hall., MD, DrPH, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCSF School of Medicine

Thomas L. Hall, MD, DrPH, is lecturer in the UCSF Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Executive Director of the Global Health Education Consortium. He received undergraduate, MD and MPH degrees from Harvard and his DrPH degree in international health from Johns Hopkins. He has held appointments in the schools of public health of the Univ. of Puerto Rico, Johns Hopkins, Univ. of NC at Chapel Hill, and the Univ. of Washington (Seattle). At UNC he was director of the Carolina Population Center. Non-academic positions have included medical director of a rural hospital, director of a regional health planning agency, and Chief Medical Officer (Research) in the New Zealand Dept. of Health (1985-86). He joined UCSF in 1988, directed a postdoctoral training program in HIV prevention research (1989-96) and since then has taught and mentored students international health. He has consulted with WHO, the World Bank and many countries on strategic health workforce planning. He is primary author of the WHO ToolKit for Human Resources Development.

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

John Hammock is the Alexander McFarlane Associate Professor of Public Policy at both the Fletcher School and the Freidman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University. He currently directs a new initiative on Ethics and Human Development. He was founder and Director of the Feinstein International Famine Center at Tufts University. The Famine Center undertakes research and provides technical assistance in complex emergencies through the lenses of livelihoods, gender, public nutrition and ethics. Dr. Hammock was President of Oxfam America for eleven years. An expert on economic and community development in the global South, Dr. Hammock served as Executive Director of ACCION International, which provides credit and technical assistance to micro-enterprises. He has consulted with the Inter-American Development Bank and helped establish Women’s World Banking. He has lived extensively in Latin America. He is currently President of the Board of Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation, an independent agency promoting the Millennium Development Goals. He holds a doctoral degree in International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Denison University. He was born in Cuba.

Polly F. Harrison, PhD, Director, Alliance for Microbicide Development

Polly Harrison, PhD, is founder and Director of the Alliance for Microbicide Development, a nonprofit coalition of scientists, product developers, public health experts, and advocates, established in 1998 for the sole and precise purpose of accelerating the development of safe, effective, and affordable topical microbicides. Over the preceding nine years, Dr. Harrison was Senior Program Officer and Director of International Health at the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, where she founded the Forum on HIV/AIDS Research and Forum on Emerging Infections, and led major studies on critical aspects of international health, infectious disease, reproductive health, and public-/private-sector responses to global health challenges. Prior to that, she spent two decades living and working in the developing world as a medical anthropologist, policy analyst, faculty member of the Development Studies Program, and Regional Social Science Advisor for USAID. She has since sustained those commitments as a Governing Councilor of the American Public Health Association, Fellow of the American Anthropological Association, Adjunct Professor at the Johns Hopkins University School for Advanced International Studies, member of the Board of the BioDesign Institute and the Scientific Advisory Group of the CONRAD Program, and ad hoc membership on numerous advisory panels for the National Institutes of Health. Her undergraduate and graduate degrees are from Mount Holyoke College and the Catholic University of America, respectively. In 2004, Dr. Harrison was selected by Scientific American as a Policy Leader within the "Scientific American 50", the magazine's prestigious annual list recognizing outstanding leadership in science and technology for that year, and in April 2006 received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the "Microbicides 2006" biennial global conference.

T.S. Harvey, PhD, Assistant Professor of Linguistic Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University

Dr. Harvey is a professor of Linguistic, Medical Anthropology, Cross-Cultural Communication, and Cultural Theory. In 1997 he earned a MA in Applied Linguistics from Old Dominion University and in 2003, a Ph.D. in Linguistic Anthropology from the University of Virginia. His research interests are: language use in health care, cross-cultural communication, communicative competence in global healthcare, and the comparative analysis of patient experiences in Western and Non-Western healthcare systems. Geographically, his work has focused on Mesoamerica (specifically Guatemala) and topically on issues in language use in health care and cross-cultural communication. As a linguist, his investigations of Guatemalan healthcare systems have been conducted in Spanish as well as the K'iche' Maya language. The recipient of numerous research grants, Dr. Harvey is a NSEP scholar, a

Ford Foundation Fellow, and a Fulbright Scholar. Having received teaching awards, he has demonstrated a commitment to education and the dissemination of research findings, moving his students from an understanding of theory, to the

development of research designs, through conducting research investigations, into the publication of data and the application of findings. Since Dr. Harvey's arrival at Case Western Reserve

University as a new faculty member in 2003, he has implemented a linguistic anthropology curriculum, designing and introducing an entire series of innovative courses on language use in health care that service medical and non-medical students interested in entering health related fields. In addition to his university work, Dr. Harvey also

has been a faculty member at numerous international Tropical and Wilderness Medicine Conferences, offering courses in cross-cultural health communication for CME credits to health practitioners.

Susan Hayes, President and CEO, Interplast

Since 1996, Susan W. Hayes has served as president and CEO of Interplast, the first humanitarian organization to provide free reconstructive surgery for impoverished children worldwide who have no other access to care. As president, she ushered Interplast through a strategic evolution from a direct service organization to one that also educates overseas medical professionals and builds permanent surgical capacity in some of the world’s poorest countries. (This transition became the subject of a Stanford Graduate School of Business Case Study.) Hayes also was executive-in-charge of an Oscar-winning documentary about Interplast, “A Story of Healing.”

Hayes came to Interplast with 15 years management, fundraising and media experience in public broadcasting, including serving as vice president for development and publicity for the Western New York Public Broadcasting Association, the nation’s 6th media market. Previously, Hayes was a political science instructor at Syracuse University and the University of South Carolina, and a project manager for public policy think tank, Syracuse Research Corporation. She holds two master's degrees from Syracuse University and completed doctorate of philosophy coursework in political science at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. Hayes is also an alumna of the inaugural class of the Stanford Graduate School Business Executive Program for Nonprofit Leaders.

Local honors include a 1998 Outstanding Women of Silicon Valley award and a 2002 Tribute to Women and Industry (TWIN) Award. Hayes has served on the Board of Directors of the YWCA of Santa Clara Valley, currently serves on the board of Yes Reading, is a volunteer on-air host for public television station KTEH in San Jose, and frequently provides pro-bono counsel to local nonprofits on the subjects of nonprofit governance. A native of South Carolina, Hayes lived for 20 years in New York State, and resides in San Jose with her husband.

Marisa Herran, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University; Co-Director, Rainbow Center for Global Child Health

Dr. Herran received her MD from the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine in 1977 and finished her training in Pediatrics at University Children’s Hospital in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1980. She is board certified in Pediatrics since 1983. She worked as instructor in Pediatrics and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine in the 80s. She moved to Cleveland, Ohio in 1989. She worked in ambulatory pediatrics at Mount Sinai Hospital in Cleveland and Margaret Shipley Clinic in Canton Ohio in the 90s. In 1999 she joined the Rainbow Center for Global Child Health as coordinator for Latin American projects. She has been recently promoted to co-direct this Center.

Her areas of interest are general pediatrics, global child health, and disasters as they affect children. She co-directs the Children in Disasters project of the Rainbow Center for Global Child Health. She has been involved with different organization helping children in humanitarian emergencies. She worked as a pediatrician in Vushtri and Prizren in Kosovo after the 1999 war, and in Darfur, Sudan in 2004. Since 1999 she has been involved in the training course “Disaster Management: focus on Children”, a course on how to work with children in disaster situations. This course has been presented every year since 1995 at Case Western Reserve University. She has served as faculty, facilitator, translator, co-director and director of this course in multiple international sites such as Nicaragua, Panama, Syria, India, Thailand and Pakistan.

Dr. Herran has been involved in local efforts to train health workers in disaster preparedness. She has participated as faculty and recently as co-director in the training course “Helping Ohio Children”, a course on how to work with children in disaster situations at the state and national level.

Dr. Herran is active in general pediatrics at the Rapid Ambulatory Pediatric Clinic of the Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital and has special interest in well child care, and cultural issues. She represents the National Hispanic Medical Association at the American Academy of Pediatrics Bright Futures Committees. She is member of the Bright Futures Education Center Project Advisory Committee, member of the Bright Futures Pediatric Implementation Project Advisory Committee, and member of the Bright Futures Users Panel, member of the Bright Futures Training Intervention with Office Staff Action Group.

Dr. Herran is committed to improve children’s health in the United States and abroad through clinical service, research, education, advocacy and volunteer efforts.

David Heymann, MD, MPH, Former Executive Director for Communicable Diseases, World Health Organization

Dr David L. Heymann is currently the Representative of the Director-General for Polio Eradication at the World Health Organization (WHO). Prior to that, from July 1998 until July 2003, Dr Heymann was Executive Director of the WHO Communicable Diseases Cluster which includes WHO's programmes on infectious and tropical diseases, and from which the public health response to SARS was mounted in 2003. From October 1995 to July 1998 Dr Heymann was Director of the WHO Programme on Emerging and other Communicable Diseases, and prior to that was the Chief of research activities in the WHO Global Programme on AIDS.

Before joining WHO, Dr Heymann worked for thirteen years as a medical epidemiologist in sub-Saharan Africa (Cameroon, Cote d�Ivoire, Malawi, and the Democratic Republic of Congo � formerly Zaire) on assignment from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in CDC-supported activities. These activities aimed at strengthening capacity in surveillance of infectious diseases and their control, with special emphasis on the childhood immunizable diseases including measles and polio, African haemorrhagic fevers, poxviruses and malaria. While based in Africa, Dr Heymann participated in the investigation of the first outbreak of Ebola in Yambuku (former Zaire) in 1976, then again investigated the second outbreak of Ebola in 1977 in Tandala, and in 1995 directed the international response to the Ebola outbreak in Kikwit.

Prior to these thirteen years in Africa, Dr Heymann worked two years in India as a medical epidemiologist in the WHO Smallpox Eradication Programme.

Dr Heymann holds a B.A. from the Pennsylvania State University, an M.D. from Wake Forest University, a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and has completed practical epidemiology training in the two year Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) of CDC. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the United States National Academies, and has published over 140 scientific articles on infectious diseases and related issues in peer-reviewed medical and scientific journals, and authored several chapters on infectious diseases in medical textbooks. He is currently editor of the 18th edition of the Control of Communicable Diseases Manual, a joint publication of WHO and American Public Health Association publication. In 2004 he received the American Public Health Association Award for Excellence. In 2005 he was awarded a Welling Professorship at the George Washington University School of Public Health and the 2005 Donald Mackay medal by the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. In 2005, he became a member of the Malaria Control and Evaluation Partnership in Africa (MACEPA) Advisory Board.

Christina T. Holt, MD, MSc, Assistant Clinical Professor, University of Vermont Medical School

Dr. Christina Holt received received both her MD from Stanford Medical School , and an MA in Latin American Studies, focusing on the health and culture of the Andes . She completed Family Medicine residency training at Swedish Hospital in Seattle , WA, working with the Seattle Latino population and with a developing Family Medicine residency program in Peru. After residency she worked in a Searsport, Maine, family practice for five years.

Interest in teaching and building academic programs abroad led her to dedicate her energy to primary care international health development projects in Latin America while completing a public health degree (M.Sc. in epidemiology) in a Research Fellowship at Boston Medical Center. Presently she is practicing in Maine and is research director at the Maine Medical Center Family Medicine residency, and program manager for the Center for International Health Improvement's Lao Family Medicine development project. Dr. Holt's clinical and research interests include maternal child health, cross-cultural healthcare, rural and underserved populations, and medical education.

Timothy Holtz, MD, MPH, FACP, International Research and Programs Branch, Division of Tuberculosis Elimination, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Timothy H. Holtz, MD, MPH, FACP, is a medical epidemiologist assigned to the International Research and Programs Branch, Division of Tuberculosis Elimination, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, and serves as a Commander in the US Public Health Service. He is one of the founding members of the Health and Human Rights Workgroup at CDC in 2003. Timothy entered CDC as part of the Epidemic Intelligence Service in 1999, serving as a medical officer in the malaria epidemiology branch. He currently works in southern Africa, the Baltics, and South America on multidrug-resistant tuberculosis control and TB/HIV program capacity building. He also serves as an adjunct assistant professor of global health at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, and co-teaches a health and human rights course there as well as at the Emory School of Medicine. Timothy trained in primary care medicine at Harvard University/Cambridge Hospital, Cambridge MA, after which he worked with the Tibetan Government-in-exile in the Indian Himalaya while on a Health and Human Rights fellowship from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He is board certified in internal medicine as well as preventive medicine, and was elected as a Fellow in the American College of Physicians in 2003. Timothy is a founding member of Doctors for Global Health (DGH), a non-governmental organization that runs health and human rights programs in Central America, South America, and Africa. The core principles of DGH are firmly rooted in social justice and human rights, delivering quality medical care and fostering social rights among impoverished and marginalized communities. Along with Drs. Anne-Emanuelle Birn and Yogan Pillay, he is a co-editor of the 3rd edition (due 2007) of the Oxford University Press Textbook of International Health, by Paul Basch.

Dunbar Hoskins, MD, Executive Director, American Academy of Ophthalmology

H. Dunbar Hoskins Jr., MD, is the Executive Vice President of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, a position he assumed Jan. 1, 1993, after a distinguished career in private practice as an internationally recognized glaucoma specialist, having authored or co-authored more than 80 publications and presented more than 300 invited lectures.

He received an Academy Honor Award in 1979 and a Senior Honor Award in 1989, Distinguished Service Award in 1999 and Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003 and is the recipient of the A. Edward Maumenee award of the Pan American Association of Ophthalmology. He is a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Society and the Sigma Zeta Honor Society, and was listed in Good Housekeeping as one of “The 400 Best Doctors in America,” as well as being repeatedly listed in “Best Doctors in America”. In 2005 he received the prestigious Medical Executive Achievement Award from the American Medical Association.

He has held numerous other positions in ophthalmology, medicine and business. Among the highlights: chairman of St. Mary’s Hospital and Medical Center, San Francisco; chairman of Mercy Services Corporation; founder and chairman of Medem Corporation; founding director of the American Glaucoma Society; founder and director of the Foundation for Glaucoma Research; and secretary-treasurer of the Pan American Association of Ophthalmology, the American Eye Study Club and the American Glaucoma Society. He is a member of the International Council of Ophthalmology.

Born in Virginia, Dr. Hoskins, the son of an ophthalmologist, received his medical degree at the Medical College of Virginia, where he did his internship and residency. He was certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology in 1970 and did his Glaucoma Fellowship at the University of California School San Francisco Medical Center. He served as Chief of Ophthalmology at the Naval Hospital in Rhode Island in 1968.

The father of three, he lives with his wife, Ann, in Belvedere, located outside San Francisco. He continues his glaucoma practice in San Francisco.

The American Academy of Ophthalmology is a leader in ophthalmic education, physician and patient advocacy, understanding health care delivery dilemmas, and educational and technological innovations.

Ralf Hotchkiss, Co-Founder, Chief Engineer and Principal Instructor, Whirlwind Wheelchair International

Ralf Hotchkiss is a rehabilitation Engineer and a proponent of independent living for people with disabilities.

Hotchkiss designs wheelchairs and has set up a growing network of workshops in 40 developing countries, where people with disabilities manufacture state-of-the-art wheelchairs using locally available materials. His inventions include the Torbellino (Whirlwind) Rough Rider wheelchair. He is the author of Independence Through Mobility (1985), a work which explains how to establish small shops and buld wheelchairs simply and economically. He is currently experimenting with designs for an -terrain, off-road vehicle that will still function as an effective wheelchair in the kitchen, the workplace, and the outhouse. His personal goal is to cross Africa by back roads riding a vehicle that can be rebuilt by any local blacksmith.

Hotchkiss co-founded the Rehabilitation Engineering Technology Program (1987) and Whirlwind Wheelchair International (1989) at San Francisco State University, where he is a Senior Research Scientist in the Institute for Community and Civil Engagement. He also founded the Center for Concerned Engineering (1971) with Ralph Nader.

Born December 6, 1947 in Rockford, Illinois, Hotchkiss received his B.A. in Physics (1969) and ScD (hon., 1991)

Peter Hotez, MD, PhD, Professor and Chairman, Department of Microbiology and Tropical Medicine, The George Washington University

Peter Hotez is the Walter G. Ross Professor of Basic Science Research and Professor and Chair of the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine at The George Washington University (GWU), where his major research and academic interest is in the area of vaccine development for the neglected tropical diseases, and the role of vaccines in international diplomacy. Dr. Hotez is also the Director of The Human Hookworm Vaccine Initiative (HHVI) at GWU and the Sabin Vaccine Institute. The HHVI is a public-private-partnership with major funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a recombinant vaccine for hookworm-induced malnutrition and anemia. He is also a co-founder of the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Disease Control (GNNTDC). Formed in 2006, the GNNTDC’s mission is to raise the profile of neglected tropical diseases and to stimulate a paradigm shift in disease control efforts. The aim of the GNNTDC is to contribute toward achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by eliminating and controlling the neglected tropical diseases through an integrated mass drug delivery approach.

Dr. Hotez is the author or co-author of 200 scientific and technical papers in molecular and immunoparasitology and tropical disease, as well as two books, Parasitic Diseases (Apple Tree Press) and Krugman’s Infectious Diseases of Children (Mosby). His scientific articles and papers on international science policy have appeared in The Washington Post, Scientific American, The Lancet, the New England Journal of Medicine, and Foreign Policy. Dr. Hotez is the recipient of the Henry Baldwin Ward Medal from the American Society of Parasitologists, a Young Investigator Award from the Pediatric Infectious Disease Society, the Bailey K. Ashford Medal from the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, and the Leverhulme Medal from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Dr. Hotez is a native of Hartford, Connecticut. He obtained his B.A. degree in Molecular Biophysics phi beta kappa from Yale University and his M.D. and Ph.D. from the medical scientist-training program at Cornell University and The Rockefeller University. After completing his residency on the Children’s Service at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Hotez returned to Yale University where he was on the faculty for 12 years. He relocated to The George Washington University in 2000 in order to establish a new academic department devoted to infectious disease problems in developing countries. Dr. Hotez lives in Rockville MD with his wife Ann and 4 children, Matthew, Emily, Rachel and Daniel. Dr. Hotez is 48 years old.

Amreen Husain, MD, Assistant Professor of Gynecologic Oncology, Stanford University

Dr. Husain is an Assistant Professor in the Stanford University School of Medicine Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and is a board certified attending in the Division of Gynecologic Oncology at Stanford University Medical Center. She is also a Fellow in the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and a Fellow in the American College of Surgeons. Dr. Husain is actively involved in clinical trials and is participating on several hospital and national committees. Her research interests are in the area of uterine and ovarian cancers, particularly molecular markers of disease. She received her M.D. from the New York Medical College, did her internship and residency training at The New York Hospital - Cornell University Medical Center and her fellowship training in Gynecologic Oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, all in New York City.

Eirini Iliaki, MD, MPH, Harvard School of Public Health

Dr Iliaki came to the United States after obtaining her Medical Degree from the University of Crete Medical School, Crete, Greece. She conducted basic ophthalmology research at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and received a Massachusetts Lions and a Knights Templar grant award for her studies on ocular inflammation. Dr Iliaki’s interest in alleviation of visual problems in underprivileged countries developed after attending a course titled “Tropical Ophthalmology” at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine taught by staff of the International Center for Eye Health, London, UK. After completing her internal medicine internship at St’ Elizabeth’s Medical Center, Tufts School of Medicine, Boston, she earned a Masters in Public Health with Quantitative Methods concentration at the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr Iliaki is going to pursue a career in Public Health with focus in International Ophthalmology.

Andrew Iwach, MD, Glaucoma Research & Education Group, American Academy of Ophthalmology Secretary for Communications

Dr. Iwach currently serves on the Academy of Ophthalmology's Committee of Secretaries as Secretary for Communications. Since becoming a Fellow of the Academy in 1991, he has been active in many facets of our organization, including volunteering with EyeCare America, being a member on the Medical Information Technology and the Computer-Based Patient Records Activities committees, and serving as a media spokesperson. He is currently Chief Medical Editor of Academy Express. In 1994, Dr. Iwach received the Academy's Honor Award, and in 2004 he received the Senior Achievement Award.

Dr. Iwach received his medical degree from the University of California Los Angeles and did his ophthalmology residency at Stanford University. He completed a Shaffer glaucoma fellowship at the University of California San Francisco in 1989. His glaucoma group practice is one of the largest glaucoma practices on the West Coast.

Dr. Iwach is Executive Director of the Glaucoma Center of San Francisco. He has been a member on the Board of Directors for the Glaucoma Research Foundation since 2000 and is currently its Secretary of the Board. He was appointed Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology at St. Mary’s Hospital & Medical Center in 1999 and has served as Vice Chair since 2002. He currently serves as a scientific reviewer for Ophthalmology, American Journal of Ophthalmology, Archives of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmic Surgery and Lasers, and the Journal of Glaucoma.

In addition, Dr. Iwach is an Associate Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology in the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of California San Francisco. He is on the clinical faculty at California Pacific Medical Center. He teaches courses and lectures extensively on glaucoma, having presented over 300 scientific lectures both nationally and internationally. Dr. Iwach is actively involved in clinical research, as well. His research focus has included mitomycin-C use in filtering surgery, application of optical coherence tomography in glaucoma, selective laser trabeculoplasty, numerous drug trials, and more. He has published more than 40 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters.

Sachin Jain, MPH, MD Candidate, Rush University; Unite For Sight Director of North America Initiatives

Sachin Jain received his Masters of Public Health degree from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is currently a third-year medical student at Rush Medical College. He advocates for underserved populations, improving access to health care and reducing health disparities worldwide. He traveled to rural Tanzania as a Unite For Sight intern in the summer of 2004 to implement eye care initiatives. Sachin was honored with an Albert Schweitzer Fellowship for the 2004-05 academic year. Through his fellowship, he teaches health education sessions and investigates precipitating factors leading to homelessness and barriers to healthcare among the homeless population of Chicago. Sachin also previously served as the national chair of the American Medical Student Association's Community and Public Health Action Committee.

Craig Janes, PhD, Associate Dean, Education, Faculty of Health Sciences Office of the Dean, Simon Fraser University

Craig Janes is a medical anthropologist interested in and committed to anthropological approaches to public health and global health policy. He has worked on the problem of the globalization of market-based health reform policy since the early 1990s, first in southwestern China (Tibet), and most recently in Mongolia. In addition to the work on health reform in Mongolia, he has also done research there on the social determinants of maternal and child health.

Dr. Janes is currently a Professor in the Global Health Program at Simon Fraser University where he also serves as Associate Dean with responsibility for academic programs in the Faculty of Health Sciences.

Rosemary Janiszewski, 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

Ms. Janiszewski has worked in the health education field for more than 25 years at both the state and federal level. She directs the National Eye Institutes’ health education activities, including the National Eye Health Education Program and Healthy People 2010. Ms. Janiszewski received her M.S. in community health education at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.

Kulsum Janmohamed, MD, MPH

Dr. Janmohamed is a UK-trained medical doctor and has worked for four years as a medical resident in the UK and Australia. Subsequent to this, she completed his Masters of Public Health degree at the Yale School of Public Health, in their Global Health Division. During this time, she conducted internships at UNICEF HQ in New York (where he researched into HIV/AIDS Care and Support), and then at the World Health Organization's Office at the United Nations. She also visited Afghanistan in the summer of 2005, where he was a member of a health assessment team in Kabul, which was led by staff at the Aga Khan Foundation. She also conducted research on employee healthcare needs for a private telecommunications company called Telecom Development Company Afghanistan (Trade Name 'Roshan'), which is based in Kabul. She now plans to further develop his career in public health by working for the UK National Health Service as a public health doctor.

Evaleen Jones, MD, Founder, President and Medical Director, Child Family Health International; Clinical Assistant Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine

Dr. Evaleen Jones founded Child Family Health International in 1992. She is a graduate of Stanford University School of Medicine and the University of California, San Francisco Family Practice Residency. She currently holds a position on the Clinical Faculty at Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Jones is an active member of the Global Health Education Consortium (GHEC), which is comprised of faculty and educators dedicated to international health education. Evaleen's commitment to the underserved stems from growing up in rural New Jersey and spending her college years in the Appalachian region of the where poverty prevails. Dr. Jones began her work in international health taking trips to as a medical student. Within five years, she founded CFHI to support her on-going work to promote better global health conditions. Now, fourteen years later, CFHI has grown to a 2.5 million dollar organization that works with nearly 200 global partners (NGO's, physicians and academic institutions) and sends 700+ medical students abroad each year while complimenting the partnerships with over $1million in donations of medical supplies and grants for health projects each year. She works actively to support the organization's growth and development, traveling extensively to strengthen sustainable healthcare for underserved communities worldwide.

David Katzenstein, Professor of Medicine, Infectious Disease, Stanford University School of Medicine

David Katzenstein, a graduate of the University of California San Diego School of Medicine, completed his training in Internal Medicine and Infectious Disease at University of California (UCSD and UC Davis) in the early 1980’s. He joined the faculty of the University of Minnesota in 1983, developing their HIV diagnostic laboratories and AIDS treatment unit. In 1985, he and his family moved to the University of Zimbabwe where as a visiting Lecturer in Microbiology, he established a clinic for HIV infected patients at UZ and described the initial characteristics of AIDS in Zimbabwe. In 1987 -89. he served a s a senior fellow at the Center for Biologics, Evaluation and Research, CBER at the FDA, evaluating early HIV diagnostics, immunotherapies and vaccines. He joined Stanford University in 1989 as an associate director of the AIDS Clinical Trials Unit and the diagnostic Virology laboratory. At Stanford Dr. Katzenstein has divided his time between US clinical trials of antiretrovirals (the AIDS Clinical Trials Group) and disease pathogenesis and work in Africa with the HIV Prevention Trials Network, AIDSETI and in Asia with the Treat Asia Network. In 2000, Dr. Katzentein received a Distinguished Clinical Research Scientist Award from the Doris Duke Charitable Trust for his work in Accessible and Affordable AIDS Care and Treatment in Zimbabwe, where he is the founder and Principle Investigator of the Zimbabwe AIDS Prevention Project (ZAPP). He is a Professor of Medicine (Research) at Stanford University in Infectious Disease with clinical appointments at San Mateo County Hospital, the Palo Alto VA and Stanford. He teaches undergraduates, medical students, residents and post-doctoral fellows and attends in Infectious Disease and several HIV clinics. His current laboratory and clinical work spans the ACTG and HPTN and is focused on prevention of mother-to-child-transmission, viral evolution and drug resistance, vaccines and immune therapies in the context of scaling-up antiretroviral drug treatment for AIDS in Africa and Asia.

Cheryl Killion, PhD, RN, Associate Professor, Case Western Reserve University

Dr. Cheryl Killion is Associate Professor at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University. Prior to her tenure at Case Western Reserve University, she served as the Director of the Center for Minority Health at Hampton University, Hampton, Virginia, where she was also the director and principal investigator of the Hampton University Health Disparities Reduction Project. In addition, she has been a faculty member at the University of Michigan and the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Killion earned a Bachelor of Science Degree from Southern Illinois University, a Master of Science Degree in Maternal-Child Nursing from the University of Colorado, and the Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Anthropology from the University of California in Los Angeles.

As a clinician and researcher, Dr. Killion has consistently focused on improving the health of underserved populations, particularly those of African descent. She has conducted ethnographic research in Belize, Central America and developed a videotape focused on mental health in Belize in collaboration with the Pan American Health Organization. Her research in the United States has focused on health concerns of homeless women, marginally housed older adults, and families residing in public housing.

Sandra Krause, MPH, BSN, Reproductive Health Project Director, Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children

Sandra Krause is a registered nurse with a master’s degree in Public Health Administration. She has been active in the public health arena for 20 years, 14 of which have been devoted to international health working in various regions including Thailand, Haiti, Colombia and Croatia and numerous countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Sandra has conducted needs assessments in multiple emergency settings including Chad, Indonesia, Thailand, Colombia and Zambia and advocated the findings to donors, government and United Nations representatives, humanitarian actors and refugee communities. Sandra has also established health programs for refugees and internally displaced persons in many countries including Malawi, Somalia and Sudan. She was a country director in Malawi. She established the health unit and worked as the International Health Advisor for six years at the headquarters of a leading humanitarian response agency.

Pavithra Krishnan, Filmmaker

Pavithra Krishnan is a writer/first-time filmmaker from South India. An English major with post-graduate training in Broadcast Journalism from BBC World, she interned with a small production company in New York before returning to India to work freelance on short films and writing projects for non-profits. Her poems, essays, articles and short stories have appeared in various Indian magazines. Infinite Vision is her first documentary and was made with a very small volunteer crew and a vast army of well-wishers from around the world. The journey of its making brought her into an awareness of - the way the world changes when we change the stories we tell.

Pavi also works with Video Volunteers, a NY-based non-profit that seeks to connect storytellers from the world of film and video with grassroot causes in developing countries. Until recently she held the position of Communications Director with The Aravind Eye Care Institute in India. In addition she is a core member of CharityFocus, a volunteer-run non-profit and 'incubator of compassionate action' based in California, that among other things, works towards sharing stories of service and inspiration with the world.

Pavi just recently moved to the United States and now lives in the Bay Area with her husband. She is currently working on a book that will further explore the history, evolution and working of the Aravind Eye Care System. It is her aspiration now, in some small way through the telling of this story to inform, interest, but above all inspire audiences, and to help share the story of Dr V's life and work.

Jacob Kumaresan, MD, MPH, Dr.PH, President, International Trachoma Initiative

Jacob Kumaresan serves as President of the International Trachoma Initiative (ITI), a public health organization dedicated to eliminating blinding trachoma. Headquartered in New York City, ITI currently supports trachoma control efforts in twelve countries in Africa and Asia.

Prior to joining ITI in March 2003, Dr. Kumaresan served as Executive Secretary of the World Health Organization’s Stop TB Partnership in Geneva, Switzerland. As a top official at this global health initiative, Dr. Kumaresan has worked to mobilize partners, manage drug distributions, and advocate for TB control. He also understands the workings of the World Health Organization (WHO) and bilateral national development agencies.

Over his twenty-year career in public health, Dr. Kumaresan has managed infectious disease programs in the developing world. From 1989-92, he worked as the Senior Epidemiologist for the Ministry of Health, Botswana. He has also worked for the Ministry of Health in Zimbabwe. Dr. Kumaresan has published extensively on the subject of infectious disease.

Dr. Kumaresan, an Indian national, received his MD degree from Kilpauk Medical College, University of Madras, India. He later earned a MPH in 1985 and a Dr.PH in 1988 from Tulane University, New Orleans, USA.

Peter Kunstadter, PhD, University of California, San Francisco (retired)

Peter Kunstadter is a medical anthropologist who received his Ph.D. Anthropology at the University of Michigan in 1961. He has conducted anthropological, demographic, ecological, epidemiological and health systems research mainly in Thailand between 1963 and the present, and also among Southeast Asian refugees in California, on Native American reservations, and in Vietnam. His main concerns have been with health and demographic consequences of modernization, especially on ethnic minority populations. Dr. Kunstadter’s current research is on cultural and behavioral factors related to malaria severity, transmission and control on the Thai-Myanmar border.

Dr. Kunstadter has taught and done research at the University of Arizona, Princeton University, Columbia University, the University of Washington, the East-West Population Institute, the University of Hawaii, the University of California, Berkeley, and since 1986 at the University of California, San Francisco. In Thailand he has collaborated in research and teaching with Chiang Mai University, Kasetsart University, Mahidol University, and Naresuan University. He has served as a consultant for American Public Health Association, California Cultural Competency Task Force, Carnegie Corporation, Chiang Mai University, Harvard Institute for International Development, Ministry of Public Health of Thailand, National Academy of Sciences, UNESCO, United Nations University, Valley Children’s Hospital, Fresno, and World Health Organization. Co-authors Ms. Rasamee Thawsirichuchai and Mr. Wirachon Yangyernkun are his long term field research supervisors in Thailand.

Jamie McLaren Lachman, Project Njabulo Director, Clowns Without Borders

The HIV/AIDS pandemic has left an emotional scar on the lives of millions of children in Sub-Saharan Africa. The psychological effects of losing one or both parents, the breakdown of social and community life, and the associated stigma of being affected with HIV/AIDS has generated a need for intervention to alleviate their suffering through compassionate care. Through its innovative program, Project Njabulo, Clowns Without Borders-USA collaborates with grassrots organizations to provide emotional relief to children in South Africa, Lesotho, and Swaziland. Their performances and workshops have recently brought laughter and joy to over 30,000 children in the past year. Presentation includes a brief performance followed by a lecture on laughter as a means for psychosocial support. ed

Jamie McLaren Lachman is the director and founder of Clowns Without Borders USA's Project Njabulo. He has lead numerous expeditions to Southern Africa to provide psycosocial support to children affected by the HIV/AIDS pandemic. His work focuses on the power of laughter and play for emotional recovery from trauma and chronic depression. Born in South Africa and a graduate of Yale University and the Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre, Mr. Lachman is a clown, teacher, and humanitarian who strives to live fully each day with compassion.

Peter R. Lamptey, MD, DrPH, President, Family Health International Institute for HIV/AIDS

Dr. Lamptey is President of the Institute for HIV/AIDS of Family Health International, and the Director of the USAID-funded Implementing AIDS Prevention and Care (IMPACT) Project. The Institute for HIV/AIDS has implemented over 1,000 projects in 65 countries in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America, and the Caribbean. Funding for these activities has come from the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, USAID, CDC, DFID, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Bristol Myers Squib Foundation.

Dr. Lamptey is a public health physician and an expert on HIV/AIDS in developing countries. With a career at FHI spanning more than 20 years, Dr. Lamptey has been instrumental in establishing FHI as the world’s largest international NGO involved in HIV/AIDS prevention, care, treatment and support. He has worked with the World Bank to design and monitor the China Health IX HIV/AIDS Project. Prior to his work in HIV/AIDS, he worked in nutrition, maternal and child health and family planning. He is the author of several publications including manuals, handbooks and guidelines for the design and implementation of public health programs in resource-constrained settings.

He has had lecturing appointments at the University of Ghana Medical School and the University of North Carolina School of Public Health and a guest lecturer at the Harvard School of Public Health and School of Public Health of the University of Ghana.

Early in his career, Dr. Lamptey served as a district medical officer in two districts in Ghana, first in the Salaga district where he was responsible for preventive and clinical health services to some 200,000 individuals and for the USAID-funded Danfa Comprehensive Rural Health Family Planning Project.

Born in Ghana, Dr. Lamptey received his medical degree from the University of Ghana, and he holds a master's degree in public health from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a doctorate in public health from the Harvard School of Public Health. He obtained training in epidemiology from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta and also served as a fellow in Nutrition Policy and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Ana Langer, MD, President and CEO, EngenderHealth

Dr. Ana Langer is a physician with board certification in pediatrics and neonatology. For the past 20 years, she has been a leading advocate for the improvement of women’s health in the Latin American and Caribbean region through the introduction of evidence-based practices. Dr. Langer' s primary areas of research and programming expertise lie in reproductive health, particularly maternal and neonatal health, unsafe abortion and the quality of reproductive health services. She is respected world-wide as a leader in the application of research findings to influence policy and clinical norms for the improvement of obstetrical care services and the overall quality of women’s and family health in the public health sector.

Dr. Langer has conducted extensive research on the psychosocial factors that affect pregnancy, delivery and postpartum outcomes. She is a specialist in the design and evaluation of public health interventions and the creation of linkages between research and policy and between reproductive health and health sector reforms. She has extensively published the impact-oriented results of her work in academic journals and books, and provides continuous technical assistance to governmental and non-governmental organizations in developing regions.

Ana Langer served as the Population Council's Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) since 1994. Dr. Langer collaborates with leading reproductive health organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean, and with international entities, such as the Reproductive Health Research Program of the World Health Organization, International Planned Parenthood Federation (HQ and affiliates), Path, University of Aberdeen, Ibis International, Family Care International and other professional and academic organizations. She also serves on specialist panels such as International Planned Parenthood Federation’s (IPPF) International Medical Advisory Panel, WHO Advisory Committee on Health Research and Expert Advisory Panel on Health Science and Technology Policy, as well as editorial boards including the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, the WHO Reproductive Health Library, and the Journal of Reproductive Health. From January 2003 to September 2004, Dr. Langer served in the dual role of Acting Director of the Council’s global Reproductive Health Program.

Dr. Ana Langer currently is the Chief Executive Officer/President of Engender Health since October 1st. 2005.

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

Robert S. Lawrence, MD is Professor of Environmental Health Sciences and Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He is the founding Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future and directs the Health and Human Rights Certificate Program.

Dr. Lawrence is a founding member of Physicians for Human Rights and served as a member of the Board of Directors from 1985-1991. He was reelected to the Board in 1997 and served as President from 1998 to 2003. He has participated in human rights investigations on behalf of PHR or other human rights groups to Chile, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, El Salvador, Guatemala, the Philippines, South Africa, and Kosovo.

Dr. Lawrence chaired the first US Preventive Services Task Force and served on the successor Task Force. For the Institute of Medicine he has chaired the Committee on Vaccine Priorities, the Committee on Medicare Expansions, the Committee on Thyroid Cancer Screening, the Committee on Health Care Services in the U.S.-Associated Pacific Basin, the Committee on Dioxin in the Food Supply, and the Committee to Evaluate Measures of Health Benefits for Environmental, Health, and Safety Regulation.

Bradford Lee, MSc, MD Candidate, Stanford University

Bradford Lee is a 2nd year medical student at Stanford University. He obtained his bachelor's degree in biochemistry from Harvard and received a fellowship to obtain a master's degree in health policy and economics from the London School of Economics. His current research on glaucoma, in collaboration with Dr. Alan Robin, Dr. Parthasarathi Sathyan, and Dr. Kuldev Singh, focuses on determining factors associated with poor attendance of follow-up examinations for glaucoma patients in the Aravind Eye Care System in Tamil Nadu, India. Their current research is also investigating strategies to improve patient adherence to medications and increase glaucoma screening and public awareness.

Scott Lee, MD, MPH

Scott Lee, MD MPH, was born in New Jersey, grew up in Ohio, and received his BA at Brown University. He received a joint MD/MPH degree from UCLA and Harvard, and completed his residency in ophthalmology at UCSF. He has worked abroad in India, Thailand, Cuba, Kenya and Ecuador. He is currently in private practice and is teaching the residents at Stanford University at the Palo Alto VA hospital. His research interests are centered in international ophthalmology and public health, as well as philanthropic models to address blindness.

Brian Lehnen, Executive Director and Co-Founder, Village Enterprise Fund

As a leader and innovator in grant based microenterprise development, Brian Lehnen, has demonstrated the importance of this tool in the fight against poverty. Brian’s career in economic development has focused on innovation in grassroots poverty allivation. Developing a model of microenterprise development that is both simple and elegant, the model he developed has shown proven results in providing sustained income for the poor and lasting benefits. The VEF model is a true grassroots model that is meeting a important unmet need among the rural poor. The program of small business grants that Lehnen developed provides critical leverage by providing grassroots capital and training.

While visiting several countries in Latin America observing development projects he was struck by the lack of innovation and the lack of sustainability in development projects. He soon began searching for proven development strategies that could be adapted to better meet the needs of the poor. With focused effect on rural East Africa, Village Enterprise Fund, has demonstrated leadership in effectively combating abject poverty in the rural African context.

Brian truly believes in the ability of the poor to fight poverty through their own intellect and hard work. Speaking to over 600 micro enterprise businesses in East Africa over the last 15 years, Brian has learned first hand what they need to fight poverty. “The poor are the ones who best know how to improve their lives, our job is to give them the tools that can empower them”

Sustainability is key to the Lehnen’s development philosophy. He has learned that by keeping the model simple and flexible thousands of the poor can create sustainable small businesses.

Key to the success that Brian has had in working with the poor has been his ability to identify key partners is the field who have the dedication and love of the poor and who are committed to helping them lift themselves out of poverty.

Steven Lin, MD Candidate, Stanford University School of Medicine

Steven Lin is a first-year medical student at Stanford and a dedicated volunteer at the Asian Liver Center. The Asian Liver Center at Stanford University is the only non-profit organization in the United States that addresses the disproportionately high incidence of hepatitis B and liver cancer in Asians. Steven helps spearhead educational outreach, research and advocacy efforts in the areas of hepatitis B and liver cancer prevention. His ultimate goal is to help eradicate hepatitis B worldwide.

Rebecka Lundgren, MPH, Director of Operations and Behavioral Research, Institute for Reproductive Health, Georgetown University

Rebecka Lundgren, MPH, is the Director of Operations and Behavioral Research at the Institute for Reproductive Health, Georgetown University Medical Center. She is the team leader on a regional HIV project funded by USAID to increase utilization of voluntary counseling and testing services in Central America by increasing quality and access to services, with a focus on involving faith-based organizations to decrease stigma and discrimination. She is also the principal investigator for the ongoing multi-method study, “Improving family planning services for Latina women and their partners: Integrating a Couple Perspective “, funded by the Office of Population.

Rebecka joined the Institute for Reproductive Health at Georgetown University in 1987. Prior to joining IRH, she worked for the Population Council in Honduras where she conducted operations research and provided technical assistance to strengthen family planning services, especially in rural areas. Rebecka began her career as a Michigan fellow conducting research and evaluation activities with the Center for Orientation for Adolescents (CORA) in Mexico City (1987-1989). Rebecka has worked for over twenty years in program implementation, research and evaluation, twelve of which were served in Latin America. During this time she worked in the areas of adolescents, reproductive health, HIV/AIDS and child survival. Her current research focuses on expanding contraceptive choice by integrating fertility-awareness based methods into family planning services. Rebecka has a particular interest in male participation in reproductive health, integrating topics of sexuality into FP counseling and serving rural and indigenous families. She received an M.P.H from UCLA’s School of Public Health in the Dept. of Population and Family Health in 1987.

Fiona Macaulay, Founder and President, Making Cents

Fiona Macaulay is the Founder and President of Making Cents International an enterprise development consulting and training firm based in Washington DC. Ms. Macaulay’s passion lies in strengthening the capacity of organizations to provide innovative and effective business development services (BDS) services micro and small entrepreneurs (MSME) and to develop youth entrepreneurship strategies. Fiona has provided technical assistance to more than 3,000 business service providers from 25 countries and regularly consults with NGOs, CBOs, microfinance programs, government agencies and educational institutions organizations on how to design and deliver effective training to entrepreneurs and for the innovative use of experiential learning methodologies and achieving impact. Making Cents is known for working with local partners to develop the provision of demand-driven and sustainable business development services. Over the past seven years the organization has worked with organizations in North America, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Pacific Rim worldwide.

Alejandro Ramirez Magana, Director General, Cinepolis

Alejandro Ramírez Magaña is Chief Executive Officer of Cinépolis, the largest movie exhibition company of Latin America. In 2005, he was recognized by the World Economic Forum as a “Global Youth Leader”. He served as the Representative of Mexico at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris, France, from 2003 to 2004. During the previous year, he served as the Technical Secretary of the Human and Social Development Cabinet of the Presidency of Mexico.

He also served at the World Bank in Washington, D.C, and in the United Nations Development Program in New York. He was Professor of Economics at Harvard University, where he studied his Bachelor in Economics and a Master on Business Administration. He also holds a Master on Economic Development from Oxford University and is currently an Economics Ph.D. candidate from the University of Cambridge.

Cris Malino, MPH

Originally from NYC, Cris MK Malino graduated Carnegie Mellon University in 2004 with dual Bachelors in Biological Sciences and Fine Art. Her attention turned to international health during an international fellowship to Ghana. She continued onto Yale University to receive her MPH in Social and Behavioral Sciences in 2006. For nearly two years, she has been working in collaboration with Hôpital Albert Schweitzer in the rural Artibonite Valley of Haiti as a member of the Haiti Obstetrics and Perinatal Epidemiology (HOPE) group. Her main interests lie in social determinants of health in the global spectrum.

Chinwe Lucy Marchie, PhD, MEd, MHPM, School of Nursing, University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Nigeria

Dr. Chinwe Marchie is a lecturer at School of Nursing, University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria. She was educated at the University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria, where she obtained the Bachelor of Science and Education Degree in Health Education in 1996. It is from the same university that she obtained a Masters in Health Planning and Management in the year 1998. She further proceeded to University of Ibadan, which is the premier university in Nigeria, where she obtained a Masters in Health Education in the year 2000 and followed up with a PhD in Health Education at the same institution in June 2004.

She is also a diploma holder in Nursing Education of University College Hospital Ibadan in 1983. She is a registered nurse (RN) and a registered midwife (RM) of Nigeria. She graduated from the schools of nursing and midwifery in 1979 and 1981 respectively.

Dr. Chinwe Marchie's resarch interest is Reproductive Health. She is an appointed lecturer at the School of Nursing, University of Benin Teaching Hospital, since January 1990.

Michael Marmor, MD, Professor of Ophthalmology, Stanford University

Dr. Marmor is Professor of Ophthalmology and Associate Faculty Member in Human Biology at Stanford University. A Harvard graduate, he completed an internship at UCLA Medical School, a research fellowship in neurophysiology at the National Institutes of Health, and a residency at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. He has been at Stanford University since 1974, where he has done research and clinical work in the field of retinal diseases and retinal physiology. He also helped to establish a program in medical humanities at the medical school, and he serves as History Editor for Survey of Ophthalmology. He has written several books and more than 200 articles about medicine and visual aspects of art, history, music, and sports. His books _The Eye of the Artist_ and _Degas Through his own Eyes_ explore the relationship between eye disease and art.

Roger Martin, Allergan/Lumigan Glaucoma Screening Activist

Roger Martin is a glaucoma patient who will offer insight into the world of a glaucoma patient turned activist. He founded the Connecticut Lions Eye Health Program Glaucoma Screening Initiative, which was named by Lions Club International as a pilot program for the United States. Martin is a speaker at various Allergan medical functions and has spoken at Association of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons, The American Academy of Ophthalmology, the American Optometric Association, Volunteer Eye Surgeon Association, and other conventions. In 2004, Martin became the first non-ophthalmologist to receive the prestigious Community Service Award from the Roman Barnes Society and was recently named to the 2005-2006 National Register's "Who's Who" in Executives and Professionals as a glaucoma activist.

Jane Maxwell, MPH, Editor, Hesperian

Jane Maxwell, MPH, Editor, Hesperian - publishers of self-help health care materials for communities where there is little or no access to medical services.

Jane Maxwell has graduate training in medical anthropology, public health and journalism. Since 1983 she has worked at Hesperian, publishers of self-help, health-care materials as a researcher/writer/editor for most Hesperian publications including Where There Is No Doctor, Where Women Have No Doctor, and the recently published Health Handbook for Women with Disabilities. Jane has international experience in women's health, disability, and health education in Ghana, the Central African Republic, Zimbabwe, Mexico, Guatemala, Brazil, China, India, Nepal and Uganda. Jane has also volunteered for many years as an "urban health worker" at the Berkeley Community Health Project (Berkeley Free Clinic) in Berkeley, California where she is currently involved in the Clinic's anonymous HIV testing site.

Christopher Maylahn, MPH, Epidemiologist, Chronic Disease Division of New York State Department of Health

Christopher Maylahn is an epidemiologist in the Chronic Disease Division of the New York State Department of Health. His areas of principal focus are the development and evaluation of public health interventions for chronic diseases, as well as surveillance approaches to monitor prevalence and trends in the causes and outcomes of chronic diseases. His efforts have been devoted to cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, asthma, obesity, age-related eye diseases and epilepsy.

He received his MPH in chronic disease epidemiology from Yale University Department of Epidemiology and Public Health in 1978, worked for two years at the American Heart Association, Vermont Affiliate to develop a state hypertension control program, and then joined the New York State Health Department in 1980.

He has been an active member of the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors since the mid-1990s, serving as its president in 2000. He has participated on numerous task forces, expert panels, and committees where a state public health perspective is sought.

Kathryn McDonald, Executive Director and Senior Scholar, Center for Health Policy/Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research, Stanford University

Kathryn McDonald is Senior Scholar and Executive Director at the Stanford Center for Health Policy and Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research (CHP/PCOR). CHP is part of Stanford's Freeman Spogli

Institute (FSI) for International Studies, and PCOR operates within the School of Medicine. Ms. McDonald is also the Associate Director for the Stanford-UCSF Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC), one of about a dozen

programs funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Her research for the EPC has predominantly focused on the evidence-base for health care quality improvement and measurement,

including leading the development of over 80 nationally recognized AHRQ Quality Indicators. She recently served on the Global Health Indicators Working Group, which advised the Center for Global Development in

producing "Measuring Commitment to Health" for the Millennium Challenge Corporation and the field in general. She intends to further apply her domestic research background to problems facing vulnerable populations

worldwide, and is helping lead a Stanford interdisciplinary initiative on Health and Governance. She earned her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Stanford, and a Masters in Management (MM/MBA) from Northwestern

University. She has learned health services research and technology evaluation from her work at a medical device firm, Stanford Hospital, and now Stanford University.

Stephen McLeod, MD, Theresa M. and Wayne M. Caygill MD Endowed Chair; Professor and Chairman, Department of Ophthalmology, University of California San Francisco

Stephen D. McLeod, M.D. is currently Associate Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology and Interim Chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of California San Francisco. He also holds an appointment in the Francis I. Proctor Foundation for Research in Ophthalmology. He completed medical school at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, residency in ophthalmology at the Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary, and a fellowship in cornea, external disease and refractive surgery at the Doheny Eye Institute of the University of Southern California. Dr. McLeod's clinical and research interests include infectious keratitis, keratoprosthetic materials development, presbyopia physiology, and the development of accommodating intraocular lenses. Current international projects include an NIH-sponsored study of the role of antiinflammatory treatment in reducing scarring and vision loss associated with infectious keratitis, and the clinical evaluation of emerging antifungal agents in the treatment of mycotic keratitis in the developing world.

Benjamin Mason Meier, , JD, LLM; PhD Candidate, IGERT-International Development and Globalization Fellow and Ashley M. Fox

Benjamin Mason Meier has been an IGERT International Development and Globalization Fellow in Columbia University’s Department of Sociomedical

Sciences since 2005. He received his B.A. in Biochemistry from Cornell

University, his J.D. from Cornell Law School, and his LL.M. in International

and Comparative Law from Cornell Law School and Université de Paris I. His

interdisciplinary research—at the intersection of law, political science,

and public health—examines the insalubrious effects of neoliberal economic policy on individual health status and national health systems. He is currently writing his dissertation on the development and evolution of the

human right to health, publishing various articles in the international law and public health literature, teaching Health & Human Rights at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health, and working with Dr. Kristine Gebbie at the Center for Health Policy to research state public health modernization pursuant to the Turning Point Model State Public Health Act.

Christine Melton, MD, MS, Friends of Aravind Association

Dr. Melton is a Board Certified Ophthalmologist practicing General Ophthalmology in New York City. She is on staff at New York Hospital Weill Cornell and at St. Vincents Hospital.

Dr. Melton received her MD degree from the University of British Columbia and did her internship at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. She completed her ophthalmology training at St. Vincents Hospital, also in New York. In 1981, as a Senior Resident at St. Vincents, she spent six weeks a the Aravind Hospital in Madurai doing a large number of surgeries and attending their outpatient clinics and screening camps. She very much identified with their mission and became a devotee of Dr. Venkataswamy and the larger Aravind family. She served as Residency coordinator for twenty-two years for the St. Vincents Residents at Cabrini Medical Center. During this time, she was responsible for arranging the Senior Resident rotations to Aravind and remained attuned to their expotential growth, fueled by the innovative incorporation of technology and the application of compassionate capitalism. She completed her Masters in Non-Profit Management at NYU Wagner School of Public Health in 2000, and did her thesis on the financial model of sustainability of Aravind. She visited India to obtain data for this project, and on her return, decided to join with other Aravind supporters to form the Friends of Aravind 501(c)(3), of which she is currently President.

Robert Metcalf, PhD, Professor Biological Sciences, California State University, Sacramento; Treasurer, Solar Cookers International

Bob Metcalf is a microbiologist and Professor of Biological Sciences at California State University, Sacramento. Since 1978, he has been actively involved with solar cooking and solar water pasteurization projects, including leading many international workshops. He is a founding member, and current board member, of Solar Cookers International, which has its headquarters in Sacramento, California, and an East Africa office in Nairobi, Kenya. He has pioneered investigations into solar water pasteurization and helped develop the re-usable Water Pasteurization Indicator (WAPI), which verifies when pasteurization temperatures have been reached. He has developed innovative methods to perform microbiology tests on water without need of a laboratory, revolutionizing the ability to assess water quality in villages and cities.

Pradeep Mettu, MD Candidate, University of Kentucky College of Medicine

Pradeep is originally from Pikeville, Kentucky. He graduated from Duke University with a B.S. in Psychology and Neuroscience in 2005. Currently, he is in his second year at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine in Lexington.

Pradeep initially became interested in international medicine through his parents, Dr. R. V. Mettu and Dr. Jyothi Mettu, and their service experiences in India. In July of 2006, Pradeep was a Unite for Sight Volunteer at the Uma Eye Clinic in Chennai, India. This experience solidified his interest in global healthcare, ophthalmology, and international service.

Pradeep currently serves as an officer for the Salvation Army Student Run Free Clinic at the University of Kentucky. He is also an officer for the university's chapter of the International Federation of Medical Students' Associations. Pradeep is currently working with several classmates to start a chapter of Unite for Sight at the University of Kentucky.

Debra Millar, BSN, MSN, PHN, RN, Country Director - Kenya, CHF International

Debra Millar, BSN, MSN, PHN, RN is the Kenya Country Director for CHF International and is currently managing a multi-million dollar cooperative agreement with the Centers for Disease Control, addressing the HIV pandemic in Kenya. She is a 28-year veteran health professional with 20 years of experience working in Africa. Ms. Millar hails from the Bay Area having earned her BS in Nursing from San Jose State University and her Masters Degree from the University of Phoenix. As an Advance Practice Nurse she has a unique combination of impressive organizational and financial management experience, public health skills, and clinical expertise, all of which are relevant to HIV/AIDS and health related projects in Kenya. She has managed programs, budgets, and host-country staff in a variety of settings in the developing world. With over 11 years of experience in Kenya, she has worked successfully with several local organizations, including faith-based organizations, to mitigate the impact of HIV/AIDS among underserved populations, while building capacity among host-country partner organizations. Ms. Millar has provided lead technical expertise in country assessments, proposal writing, and the rapid start up of two multi-million dollar HIV/AIDS programs in Africa. Her work demonstrates the importance of a culturally-sensitive, community-based approach in building capacity for improving and expanding HIV/AIDS service delivery at the local level.

Carolyn A. Miller

Carolyn A. Miller's nursing education began with a diploma from Lutheran Hospital in Moline, Illinois. She received her BSN and MA from the University of Iowa, her Nurse-Midwifery Education in Scotland and from Booth Maternity Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Carolyn worked clinically and taught at the University of Iowa. In Liberia, West Africa, she taught and was Chairman of the Division of Nursuing at Cuttington University College. She was the founder of the Midwifery and Nurse-Midwifery Educational program and taught extensively in both programs at Phebe Hospital, inservice with Midwives and Sunday School rounded out by her teaching experience in Liberia. At Frontier Nursing Service in Hyden, Kentucky, she was coordinator of Midwifery Education. After being on call for 25 years, her last 12 years were spent at Maternal Health Center in Bettendorf, Iowa in a clinical setting. She is involved with many projects involving Liberia and Liberians, primarily shipping medical supplies. Hospice work, mentoring in the school system, serving on her county's Public Health Board, and a variety of church projects.

Derek Mladenovich, OD, MPH Candidate, Fellow, World Council of Optometry; External Examiner, International Rescue Committee, Thailand

Dr. Mladenovich obtained a doctorate in optometry from the Pennsylvania College of Optometry. He completed a residency at the Wilmington VA Medical Center in Delaware and a clinical research fellowship at the Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute. As a clinician he has worked in community eye clinics in Latin America and Africa. As an adjunct faculty at the Center for International Studies of the Pennsylvania College of Optometry, Dr. Mladenovich is a frequent lecturer in the US, Europe and Asia. He has served as an optometric consultant for the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD), Ministry of Health and Social Services of the Republic of Namibia and the Belize Council for the Visually Impaired (BCVI). As a fellow of the World Council of Optometry (WCO), Dr. Mladenovich has served as an external examiner for the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in the Karenni Refugee Camps in Thailand. Dr. Mladenovich is an MPH candidate at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Emily Moore, PhD, Adjunct Professor, Sociology, San Diego State University

Emily Moore, PhD, MPH, has over thirty years experience in international relief and development, working primarily in planning and evaluation with a wide variety of US and international non-governmental organizations, UN agencies, consulting firms, and donor agencies. She is currently a part-time sociology professor at San Diego State University. (She will be co-presenting with Mark Carlson.)

Mark Carlson is the Assistive Technology Specialist at the Access Center of San Diego, a federally-funded Independent Living Center. Legally blind and hearing-impaired, he works both with individual clients and the community concerning AT for persons with disabilities. He is thus familiar with both high-tech (expensive) and low-tech (inexpensive) devices; many of the latter can presumably be adapted to and adopted in developing countries. (He will be co-presenting with Emily Moore.)

Anne Firth Murray, Founding President, The Global Fund for Women; Consulting Professor, Human Biology Program, Stanford University

Anne Firth Murray, a New Zealander, was educated at the University of California and New York University in economics, political science, and public administration, with a focus on international health policy and women's reproductive health. She has worked at the United Nations as a writer, taught in Hong Kong and Singapore, and spent several years as an editor with Oxford, Stanford, and Yale University presses.

For the past twenty-five years, she has worked in the field of philanthropy, serving as a consultant to many foundations. From 1978 to the end of 1987, she directed the environment and international population programs of the Hewlett Foundation in California. She is the Founding President of The Global Fund for Women, which provides funds internationally to seed, strengthen, and link groups committed to women's well being. Currently, she is a scholar/activist at the Union Institute and a Consulting Professor in Human Biology at Stanford University.

Ms. Murray serves on several boards and councils of non-profit organizations, including the African Women’s Development Fund, Commonweal, GRACE (a group working on HIV/AIDS in East Africa), Hesperian Foundation, and UNNITI (a women's foundation in India). She is the recipient of many awards and honors for her work on women’s health and philanthropy, and in 2005 she was nominated as one of a group of 1,000 women for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Her book, Paradigm Found: Leading and Managing for Positive Change , will be published by New World Library, California, in May 2006.

Anne Firth Murray, Founding President, The Global Fund for Women; Consulting Professor, Human Biology Program, Stanford University

Anne Firth Murray, a New Zealander, was educated at the University of California and New York University in economics, political science, and public administration, with a focus on international health policy and women's reproductive health. She has worked at the United Nations as a writer, taught in Hong Kong and Singapore, and spent several years as an editor with Oxford, Stanford, and Yale University presses.

For the past twenty-five years, she has worked in the field of philanthropy, serving as a consultant to many foundations. From 1978 to the end of 1987, she directed the environment and international population programs of the Hewlett Foundation in California. She is the Founding President of The Global Fund for Women, which provides funds internationally to seed, strengthen, and link groups committed to women's well being. Currently, she is a scholar/activist at the Union Institute and a Consulting Professor in Human Biology at Stanford University.

Ms. Murray serves on several boards and councils of non-profit organizations, including the African Women’s Development Fund, Commonweal, GRACE (a group working on HIV/AIDS in East Africa), Hesperian Foundation, and UNNITI (a women's foundation in India). She is the recipient of many awards and honors for her work on women’s health and philanthropy, and in 2005 she was nominated as one of a group of 1,000 women for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Her book, Paradigm Found: Leading and Managing for Positive Change , will be published by New World Library, California, in May 2006.

Mini Murthy, MD, MPH, MS, Assistant Professor, Department of Behavioral Science and Community Health, New York Medical College School of Public Health

Dr. Murthy is a highly experienced and accomplished healthcare professional with an extensive career encompassing the design, implementation, and management of public health and educational programs at the local, national, and global level. She is a consultant to healthcare providers, international nongovernment organizations, and the United Nations. She obtained her M.D. from Nagarjuna University in Andhra Pradesh, India. She has an Advanced Diploma in Obstetrics and Gynecology, as well as an MPH in International Health Education and an M.S. in Management of International Public Service Organizations from New York University.

Currently Program Director of International Health Awareness Network, Mini designs, implements, and manages international women's health programs with a focus on maternal health. Previously a consultant to United Nations Population Fund, she is also on the Assistant Professor of Practice at New York Medical College School of Public Health.

Michael Nedelman, BS Candidate, Yale University

Michael Nedelman is a current student at Yale University studying Molecular Biology and Film Studies. Originally from Miami, Florida, Michael has directed various programs in film and the educational arts. Past projects have included a documentary on Cuban political prisoners, a music video with up-and-coming rap artists, and most recently Project Phokas, a photographic auto-ethnography for which patients of free vision care provided by Unite For Sight were encouraged to capture images of what they were able to see with their restored sight. After graduation, Michael plans to pursue a career in medicine and/or film.

Joel Nitzkin, MD, MPH, DPA, Principal Investigator and Project Manager, AAPHP Preventive Services ToolKit Project

Dr. Nitzkin is a public health physician, board certified in Preventive Medicine, with a Doctorate in Public Administration.

He began his public health career in the late 1960’s as an EIS officer. After securing an MPH, he worked for six years as County Epidemiologist in a big city health department. This experience left him with a clear impression that there must be a better way to run a multi-million dollar agency, than the way this health department was then managed. With that in mind – going to school part time, while working full time, he secured both a master’s degree and a doctorate in public administration.

Since that time, he has dedicated his career to the translation of public health and preventive science into effective and cost-efficient clinical and community-based preventive services. He has served as a local health director (Rochester, New York), State Health Director (Louisiana), President of the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), President of the American Association of Public Health Physicians (AAPHP) and policy consultant in the private practice of public health. He has served on the Boards of Directors and Executive Committees of several large hospital and health insurance enterprises. He has served on multiple federal advisory committees related to Healthy People, Objectives for the Nation, HIV/AIDS policy, and others. Most recently, he has served as a member of an advisory committee to the Institute of Medicine relative to training physicians for public health careers.

Today, Dr. Nitzkin is here as the Principal Investigator and Project Manager for the Preventive Services ToolKit (PSTK) Project of the American Association of Public Health Physicians (AAPHP).

Thomas Novotny, MD, MPH, Director of International Programs; Professor in Residence, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCSF School of Medicine

Dr. Thomas Novotny is Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine (UCSF). He was previously an Assistant Surgeon General in the United States Public Health Service, serving as CDC liaison to the World Bank and as Deputy Assistant Secretary for International and Refugee Health. He has worked extensively in tobacco control and in health systems reform, particularly in Eastern Europe. He has published numerous scientific articles on tobacco, HIV/AIDS, public health practice, and epidemiology, and he has been a contributor and editor of several Reports of the Surgeon General on Tobacco and Health. He is responsible for curriculum development in global health at the UCSF School of Medicine and for developing a new PhD and Masters program in Global Health Sciences at UCSF.

Cliff O'Callahan, MD, PhD, Middlesex Hospital Family Practice Program

Dr. O'Callahan is the pediatric faculty at the Middlesex Hospital Family Practice residency program in Middletown, CT. Prior to his four years in CT he spent 5 years working with the Puyallup Tribe in Tacoma WA and was the IHS Maternal Child Health Coordinator for the NW. After pediatric residency, and before working for the tribe, he spent almost three years in the Guatemalan refugee camps in Mexico and in the northern jungle state of Peten in Guatemala. There Cliff started a rural health training program for health workers and midwives. He returns there annually.

Dr. O'Callahan has participated as the pediatric recovery physician for the local Healing the Children working trips in Ecuador, and helped teach the Disaster Management course that Case Western Reserve and the International Pediatric Association offered recently in Pakistan.

He is also on the executive committee for the Section of International Child Health of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Cliff OCallahan, MD, PhD, Middlesex Hospital Family Practice Program; Chair, American Academy of Pediatrics Section on International Child Health

Dr. O'Callahan is the pediatric faculty at the Middlesex Hospital Family Practice residency program in Middletown, CT. Prior to his four years in CT he spent 5 years working with the Puyallup Tribe in Tacoma WA and was the IHS Maternal Child Health Coordinator for the NW. After pediatric residency, and before working for the tribe, he spent almost three years in the Guatemalan refugee camps in Mexico and in the northern jungle state of Peten in Guatemala. There Cliff started a rural health training program for health workers and midwives. He returns there annually.

Dr. O'Callahan has participated as the pediatric recovery physician for the local Healing the Children working trips in Ecuador, and helped teach the Disaster Management course that Case Western Reserve and the International Pediatric Association offered recently in Pakistan.

He is also on the executive committee for the Section of International Child Health of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Ken Onu, MD

Dr. Kenneth Onu graduated from University of Leipzig, Germany. He practices general ophthalmology in Beachmont, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Caribbean. He is the former Head of Ophthalmology at the Kingstown General Hospital, now Milton Cato Memorial Hospital. He worked closely with Dr. Kenneth Treacy and team on their trips to St. Vincent and the Grenadines since early 2000 to provide eye care and reverse avoidable blindness.

Kristin Ow

Kristin Ow is a recent graduate of Pepperdine University. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Biology and minored in music. She served as a summer volunteer in Bihar, India in May-June 2006. Her interest in visual health began in high school where she served as president for a Leo Club, affiliated with Lions Club International. She was able to work with Leos and Lions at Camp Pacifica, a summer camp for the deaf and blind. In college, she helped the Los Angeles Blind Children’s Center throughout the year with her sorority, Delta Gamma. Unite for Sight has been an inspiring experience for Kristin. She has applied for medical schools and is interesting in pursuing a medical career in ophthalmology. Kristin is currently living and working in Santa Monica, California.

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

Doruk Ozgediz completed his medical training at the University of California, San Francisco where he is currently a chief resident in general surgery. He has also completed a Masters of Science in Public Health in Developing Countries at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine with a master's paper focusing on surgical capacity in Uganda. He is a resident coordinator for the UCSF Department of Surgery Global Health Program.

William P. Schecter, M.D., F.A.C.S. is Professor of Clinical Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), Vice-Chair of Surgery at UCSF and Chief of Surgery at the San Francisco General Hospital. He was born in 1947 in New York City, received an A.B. in Political Science at Harpur College (Binghamton, New York) in 1968, an M.D. at the Albany Medical College (New York State) in 1972 and completed a Rotating Internship at the San Francisco General Hospital (1972-1973). His subsequent education included a residency in Anesthesiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital (1973-1975), a residency in Surgery at UCSF (1976-1979) and a Fellowship in Hand Surgery (1979-1980). After joining the UCSF faculty as an Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery (1980-1981), he served as the Chief of Surgery at the LBJ Tropical Medical Center, Pago Pago, American Samoa (1981-1983) and a Lecturer in Surgery at the University of Natal, Durban, RSA (1983-1984). Dr. Schecter returned to UCSF in 1984 and rose to become Chief of Surgery at the San Francisco General Hospital and Vice-Chair of Surgery at UCSF. Dr. Schecter spent a Sabbatical between January 1 and June 30, 2004 at the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, Israel, studying civilian hospital response to mass casualty events.

Dr. Schecter has served as President of the San Francisco Surgical Society, President of the Northern California Chapter of the American College of Surgeons, Governor of the American College of Surgeons, President of the Board of Directors of Operation Access (a non-profit corporation providing uncompensated surgical services to the uninsured) and Vice-President of the Pacific Coast Surgical Association. In April 2004, he was elected as a Director of the American Board of Surgery. He currently serves as Co-Chair of the San Francisco General Hospital Disaster Committee.

Dr. Schecter’s clinical interests involve the surgery of poverty: trauma, soft tissue infections related to drug use and alcoholism, advanced malignancy related to poor access to health care and the surgical treatment of HIV infected patients.

Carol Pandak, Manager, Division of PolioPlus, The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International

Carol Pandak, Ed. D., is the Division Manager for the PolioPlus program of the Rotary Foundation of Rotary International, a worldwide organization of business and professional leaders with approximately 1.2 million members belonging to 32,000 clubs in more than 200 countries and geographical areas. Dr. Pandak is responsible for overseeing Rotary’s global efforts to eradicate polio in partnership with the World Health Organization, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and UNICEF. She also has experience in volunteer education and training. Prior to her work at Rotary, she directed a national program at the American Academy of Pediatrics that aimed to increase access to health care for all children in the United States.

Dr. Pandak has a doctorate in Adult Education and is a lecturer on international civil society and nongovernmental organizations at Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) in the College of Arts and Sciences’ Program for International Studies.

Yannis Paulus, MD Candidate, Stanford University

Yannis Paulus is currently an M.D. candidate at Stanford School of Medicine. He is pursuing the Bioengineering Scholarly Concentration and serves as a manager of Pacific Free Clinic. At present Yannis investigates patterned retinal photocoagulation, a treatment for diabetic retinopathy, in the lab of Daniel Palanker, Ph.D., and Mark Blumenkranz, M.D., in the Stanford Department of Ophthalmology. He is particularly interested in the development and implementation of new technologies to treating the leading cause of the blindness in working-age Americans: diabetic retinopathy.

Yannis received his B.A. in Chemistry and Physics from Harvard College in 2005. In college, he was Director of the Harvard Hippocratic Society, Director of the Harvard Community Health Initiative, an MCAT instructor, and a computer assistant for Harvard FAS Computer Services. Yannis used single molecule fluorescence and fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) to study chromatin remodeling with Xiaowei Zhuang, Ph.D, in the Harvard Department of Chemistry. Conducting research at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary with Evangelos Gragoudas, M.D., and Joan Miller, M.D., Yannis was featured in two 2004 ARVO Annual Meeting posters on novel treatments of uveitis. In the lab of Daniel Goldowitz, Ph.D., at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Yannis coupled bioinformatics and histology to determine two gene loci in mice.

Carol Pavlish, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor, UCLA School of Nursing

Carol Pavlish first started working with women refugees in Rwanda East Africa with the American Refugee Committee (ARC) in 2001 after caring for women refugees in her oncology practice in Minnesota. She volunteers her services with ARC every summer and has conducted participatory action research with refugee women as well as conducted participatory workshops on gender based violence and HIV prevention. She also worked with Rwandan ARC staff nurses to address health care needs of the refugee camp residents.

Carol taught in the Department of Nursing at the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul, MN for 28 years. Part of her teaching was in a liberal arts core course, The Global Search for Justice: Women’s Health Issues, which she taught on campus as well as in Chengdu, China and Cuernavaca, Mexico. She is now an Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at the University of California, Los Angeles and teaches Social Justice in the Masters Entry Clinical Nursing Program. Her current research interests include health issues of refugee women in East Africa, gender based violence, HIV prevention for women, and palliative and end-of-life issues for oncology patients.

Jennifer Peterson, Country Director, Guinea and Sierra Leone, Helen Keller International

Ms. Peterson is an extension agronomist and household food security specialist with 20 years of experience working on community development programs in the US and Africa. She has implemented on-farm trials, developed monitoring and evaluation systems, and evaluated development programs for USAID, the United Nations, and various host country ministries and local and international NGOs. She also has experience in participatory rural appraisal and gender analysis techniques. She has worked in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Guinea, Malawi, Niger, and Zambia, and speaks fluent English and French, as well as several African dialects.

James Phills, Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior; Louise and Claude N. Rosenberg Jr. Director of the Center for Social Innovation; Director of the Strategy for Nonprofit Organizations Executive Program, Stanford Graduate School of Business

Jim Phills is the Claude N. Rosenberg Jr. Director of Stanford’s Center for Social Innovation and Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior (Teaching) at the Stanford Business School. He is also Co-Academic Editor of the Stanford Social Innovation Review and Faculty Director of the Executive Program for Nonprofit Leaders, the Executive Program for Philanthropy Leaders, and Strategy for Nonprofit Organizations. His research focuses on strategic change, organizational learning, and social innovation. Phills is the author of a number of publications on learning and change in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors, including Integrating Mission and Strategy for Nonprofit Organization, which was published by Oxford University Press in 2005. Prior to moving to Stanford, he was on the faculty at the Yale School of Management where he received the Alumni Association Award for Excellence in teaching in 1995.

At Stanford, Professor Phills has taught courses on Strategic Leadership of Nonprofits, Social Innovation, Managing Strategic Change, and Interpersonal Dynamics. In addition to his research and teaching, Phills has consulted to a wide array of organizations for over 20 years. These projects range from facilitating strategic planning sessions for senior management teams to designing and delivering customized executive education programs. A partial list of his clients includes: American Electric Power, Dean & DeLuca, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, General Mills, Girl Scouts USA, Herman Miller Corporation, Hoffmann-La Roche, I-CO Global Communications, Kaiser Permanente, The Monitor Group, and the San Francisco Police Department. He serves as a nonprofit board member for College Track, The Walker Home and School, and Stanford Business School Alumni Consulting Team.

Phills is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, holds a Master's degree in Psychology and Social Relations from Harvard University, and received his PhD in Organizational Behavior from Harvard Business School and the departments of Psychology and Sociology.

Cornelius Pratt, MA, PhD, Presidential Professor of Strategic and Organizational Communication, Temp and E. Lincoln James, PhD, Washington State University

Cornelius B. Pratt is presidential professor of strategic and organizational communication at Temple University. Prior to joining Temple University, he was a professor at Michigan State University and an associate professor at Virginia Tech. He also served for more than five years as communication coordinator in the National Office of Communication in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.

Professor Pratt has published on topics in health communication, in strategic communication and developmental systems for international and intercultural communications, and in communication ethics. He serves on seven editorial-review boards.

He holds master’s and PhD degrees from the University of Minnesota—Twin Cities.

E. Lincoln James is professor of advertising at Washington State University, where he teaches Media Planning and Direct Marketing and Integrated Marketing Communications. His research interests are in health communication, advertising information content, and social issues that confront minority populations.

Professor James is managing editor of The Western Journal of Black Studies. His PhD is from the University of Texas at Austin and his MA is from the University of Florida.

R.V. Ramani, MBBS, Founder and Managing Trustee, Sankara Eye Foundation

Dr. R.V. Ramani is a Managing Trustee of Sankara Eye Care Institutions. Realizing the need for voluntary initiative in the field of health care, Dr. R.V. Ramani and his wife Dr. Radha established the Sankara Movement in the year 1977. Sankara Eye Bank is a model eye bank for the Nation, receives a pair of eyes almost every day, and corneal transplants are carried out on blind children. The "Gift of Vision" rural outreach eye care program serves the villages in Tamilnadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and Pondicherry. The "Rainbow" preventive eye care program has thus far screened over 3 million school students. The "Vandematharam Bharath Vision" program aims to replicate a similar community eye care facility in every state of India.

Dr. Ramani has received Outstanding Young Doctor Award from Jaycees International, Meritorious Service Award of Lions International, Lifetime Achievement Award from Kasturba Medical College, and Role Model of India Aawrd from the President of India in 2000.

Murali Krishnamurthy is Chairman of Sankara Eye Foundation, USA. He is a Staff Development Engineer in the Customer Support organization of BMC Software in California. He has a BE in Electronics and Communications engineering from REC Trichy and an MS in Computer Science from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Murali's uncle Mr. P. Balasubramaniam motivated Murali and his brother to start Sankara Eye Foundation, USA. Murali, Sridhar and Ahmad Khushnood (of Pakistan) founded SEF USA in the year 1998.

Venkita Suresh and Ian Rawson, MD, CEO/Directeur General, Hopital Albert Schweitzer Haiti

Hopital Albert Schweitzer Haiti has operated in the Central Artibonite Valley since 1956; during these 50 (sometimes quite turbulent) years, HAS has been able to achieve admirable successes such as the eradication of neonatal tetanus, and the successful preventive vaccination of over 90% of the service population of 300,000. However, a substantial burden of disease remains, including cataracts and other sight-limiting conditions, tuberculosis, malnutrition, HIV/AIDs and maternal mortality. In most cases, the root causes of these conditions are poverty, hygiene and education, as well as lack of access to services. HAS has developed a set of decentralized Community Health Centeres, each of which support a network of community-based workers in health and economic development, including reforestation, microcredit, potable water, alternative fuels and animal husbandry, and also featuring a new program in screening and therapy by ophthalmology techs in the Health Centers. HAS' service delivery model continues to evolve, by internal design and through benchmarking with other successful programs world wide.

Hannah Reddick, Guinea Program Technical Assistant, Helen Keller International

Hannah received her BA in International Studies and French from Hope College in Holland, MI in 2003. She worked as a Public Health Volunteer for Peace Corps Guinea from 2004 to 2006. Her activities in the village focused on youth and HIV/AIDS prevention, school health education, and malnutrition. She currently is working as a technical assistant for Helen Keller International in Guinea. She speaks fluent English and French.

Bonzo Reddick, MD, Clinical Instructor, Department of Family Medicine, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Bonzo Reddick, M.D., is a Clinical Instructor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School of Medicine. He received his M.D. degree from Morehouse School of Medicine and completed his residency in family medicine at UNC Hospitals, serving as Chief Resident from 7/2004-6/2005. Dr. Reddick has had extensive experience working with Latino populations in the United States and abroad. He has worked with Hispanic lay health advisors in the Immigrant Health Initiative, and he performs free health assessments for a rural Hispanic community through “El Proyecto Bienestar” (Project Well-Being). He also serves on the Honduran Health Alliance Internal Advisory Board and participates in a yearly medical trip to Honduras. The Honduran Health Alliance is a program that combines community-oriented primary care with public health in six communities in southern Honduras.

Kristen Kanerva Richards, RN and Mary Fifield Executive Director, Global Pediatric Alliance

Mary Fifield’s passion for community development and writing come from the same impulse: to connect with people through stories and understand the fundamental causes of inequities. A writer with a background in education, program management, and grassroots organizing, Mary spearheaded communications and strategic development for Global Pediatric Alliance for two years before becoming executive director in 2005. She has worked on the ground to empower grassroots leaders and help GPA develop a more integrated approach to improving child and maternal health. Her past experience includes consulting on strategic planning, communications, and donor outreach for nonprofit organizations such as Episcopal Charities and Bay Area Nonviolent Communication, and she served as an advisor for international community development projects for Interalianza. She received a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from San Diego State University, and her articles and reviews have appeared in print trade journals and online.

Co-Presenter: Kristen Kanerva Richards, RN, developed a passion for international community health while pursuing her nursing degree at Johns Hopkins University. She first volunteered internationally with JHU’s Summer Tropical Medicine Institute and later worked in Australia, Africa, and Southeast Asia. As a Peace Corps volunteer in Ecuador’s Amazon Basin from 2001 to 2003, she focused on maternal and child nutrition, basic health and hygiene, vaccine campaigns, HIV/AIDS education, and improving access to healthcare. Collaborating with indigenous leaders and local physicians, she created a health education project that formed the basis for Global Pediatric Alliance’s health promoter training program. She has also participated as a nurse and coordinator for Operation Esperanza, a non-profit organization that provides free surgeries for children with facial deformities in Ecuador. Currently she lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. She plans to pursue a master’s degree in public health and nurse practitioner in family practice so she can continue to serve those in need in the Bay Area and abroad.

Jeffrey Sachs, PhD, Director, Earth Institute at Columbia University; Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development; Professor of Health Policy and Management; Special Advisor to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan

Jeffrey D. Sachs is the Director of The Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University. He is also Director of the UN Millennium Project and Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the Millennium Development Goals, the internationally agreed goals to reduce extreme poverty, disease, and hunger by the year 2015. Sachs is also President and Co-Founder of Millennium Promise Alliance , a nonprofit organization aimed at ending extreme global poverty.

Professor Sachs is widely considered to be the leading international economic advisor of his generation. For more than 20 years Professor Sachs has been in the forefront of the challenges of economic development, poverty alleviation, and enlightened globalization, promoting policies to help all parts of the world to benefit from expanding economic opportunities and wellbeing. He is also one of the leading voices for combining economic development with environmental sustainability, and as Director of the Earth Institute leads large-scale efforts to promote the mitigation of human-induced climate change.

He is internationally renowned for his work as economic advisor to governments in Latin America, Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Asia and Africa, and his work with international agencies on problems of poverty reduction, debt cancellation for the poorest countries, and disease control. He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Sachs has been an advisor to the IMF, the World Bank, the OECD, the World Health Organization, and the United Nations Development Program, among other international agencies. During 2000-2001, he was Chairman of the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health of the World Health Organization, and from September 1999 through March 2000 he served as a member of the International Financial Institutions Advisory Commission established by the U.S. Congress.

Professor Sachs was named as one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time Magazine in 2004 and 2005, and the World Affairs Council of America identified him as one of the 500 most influential people in the United States in the field of foreign policy. In February 2002 Nature Magazine stated that Sachs "has revitalized public health thinking since he brought his financial mind to it." In 1993 he was cited in The New York Times Magazine as "probably the most important economist in the world" and called in Time Magazine’s 1994 issue on 50 promising young leaders "the world's best-known economist." In 1997, the French magazine Le Nouvel Observateur cited Professor Sachs as one of the world's 50 most important leaders on globalization. His syndicated newspaper column appears in more than 50 countries around the world, and he is a frequent contributor to major publications such as the New York Times, the Financial Times of London, and The Economist magazine.

Sachs's research interests include the links of health and development, economic geography, globalization, transition to market economies in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, international financial markets, international macroeconomic policy coordination, emerging markets, economic development and growth, global competitiveness, and macroeconomic policies in developing and developed countries. He is author or co-author of more than two hundred scholarly articles, and has written or edited many books, including New York Times bestseller The End of Poverty (Penguin, 2005).

Sachs is the recipient of many awards and honors, including membership in the Institute of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Society of Fellows, and the Fellows of the World Econometric Society. He is also the 2005 recipient of the Sargent Shriver Award for Equal Justice. He is a member of the Brookings Panel of Economists, the Board of Advisors of the Chinese Economists Society, among other organizations. He has received honorary degrees from many universities including the College of the Atlantic, Southern Methodist University, Simon Fraser University, McGill University, Southern New Hamphshire University, St. John’s University, Iona College, St. Gallen University in Switzerland, the Lingnan College of Hong Kong, and Varna Economics University in Bulgaria, and an honorary professorship at Universidad del Pacifico in Peru. Distinguished lecture series include the London School of Economics, Oxford University, Tel Aviv, Jakarta, Yale and many others.

Prior to his arrival at Columbia University in July 2002, Sachs spent over twenty years at Harvard University, most recently as Director of the Center for International Development and Galen L. Stone Professor of International Trade.

Alfredo A. Sadun, MD, PhD, Floral Thornton Chair of Vision Research, Professor of Ophthalmology and Neurological Surge

Dr. Sadun is the Flora Thornton Professor of Vision Science and Professor in the Departments of Ophthalmology and Neurosurgery at USC. Dr. Sadun graduated from MIT (1972) and began his PhD in neuroscience while there. He completed his PhD at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1976 and his MD also at Einstein, in 1978. After completing a residency in Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, he went on to do fellowships in Neuro-Ophthalmology at UCSF and Harvard and then joined the full-time faculty at Harvard, Department of Ophthalmology in 1983. Two years later he was recruited to USC where he has remained to the present date. He has published about 200 peer-reviewed articles, 50 book chapters and authored 4 books. He has been funded by the National Institutes of Health for over 25 years and holds 4 patents. His areas of scientific expertise include quantitative measurements of vision (psychophysics), optic nerve morphometry and immunohistochemistry, animal models of optic neuropathies, cell culture models of neuronal apoptosis, neuroprotection and optic nerve regeneration. His accomplishments as a researcher have been recognized by several organizations including the Society for Research for the Prevention of Blindness (RPB) James Adams Scholar Award, RPB Senior Investigator Award, and the Lighthouse International Career Achievement (Pizart) Award. He has also been honored by the American Academy of Ophthalmology (Senior Honor Award) and the Association of University Professors who recognized him with the inaugural Straatsma Award for his national and international contributions to teaching.

Sarwat Salim, MD

Dr. Sarwat Salim graduated summa cum laude from accelerated 7 year Combined B.A./M.D. Program of the City and State University of New York. She completed her residency in Ophthalmology at State University of New York- Health Science Center at Brooklyn. She then completed Glaucoma fellowship at Yale University-School of Medicine. She is interested in international medicine and public health. In the last few months, she has visited Israel, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia. She has assisted in the clinical and surgical management of glaucoma patients and has appreciated the opportunity to share information and skills with the physicians overseas.

Sarang Samal, MA, Director, NYSASDRI

Mr. Sarangdhar Samal heads Orissa’s leading social developmental organisation (NYSASDRI) as director. A Master of Arts Degree holder Mr. Samal’s passion goes well beyond social work. His involvement in action and research hemisphere of development since last twenty years proves this point. He as well as the organisation NYSASDRI is associated with no of national and international organisations, forums, networks & other apex bodies like UNO etc. Under his able leadership more than 300 action and exploratory researches, projects and programmes are carried out by NYSASDRI which has brought out new vistas for the development. He has been pioneering in initiating and renovating no of Change models in rural Orissa.

Currently, in the state of Orissa a new kind of experiment initiated by NYSASDRI in the flagship name of Public Private Partnership in the Health Sector is going on. The project known as Community Empowerment and Advocacy for Sustainable Health Care aims to reduce poverty and improve the health status of poor, underserved communities, in Orissa, with a particular focus on women and people from Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, who constitute over 80% of the target group. The Project in the mid of the project cycle has already impressed groups of stakeholder and thus NYSASDRI model of PPP ( which is cost effective and sustainable high volume service provider) is soon to be replicated in the other parts of Orissa.

Joel Samoff, Consulting Professor, Center for African Studies, Stanford University

An experienced educator, researcher, and evaluator, Joel Samoff combines the scholars critical approach and the experience of an international development adviser. With a background in history, political science, and education, he studies and teaches about education and development. From Kilimanjaro coffee farmers in Tanzania to militant bus drivers in Ann Arbor Michigan to the education activists of South Africa and Namibia, the orienting concern of his work has been understanding how people organize themselves to transform their communities. A faculty member at the Center for African Studies at Stanford University, he has also been a faculty member at the Universities of California, Michigan, and Zambia and has taught in Mexico, South Africa, Sweden, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe. He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Pretoria in 2005. Concerned with public policy as well as research, and especially with the links between them, Samoff works regularly with international agencies involved in African education. He is the North America Editor of the International Journal of Educational Development and serves on the Advisory Boards of the Comparative Education Review and Development and Change.

Harshad Sanghvi, MD, Medical Director, Maternal and Neonatal Health Program, JHPIEGO Corporation

Harshad Sanghvi’s professional background is in Obstetrics and Gynecology and Clinical Epidemiology. His completed his medical education and residency in Kenya and underwent graduate and postdoctoral training in United Kingdom and USA. He was formerly Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Nairobi. Currently he is the Medical Director at JHPIEGO, responsible for providing leadership and oversight for technical and clinical approaches and leading the strategic thinking for JHPIEGO as well as pursuing innovative opportunities. He is the main contributor to “Managing Complications in Pregnancy and Childbirth, a Manual for Doctors and Midwives” and contributing author in Managing Newborn Problems, two of the Integrated Management of Pregnancy and Childbirth (IMPAC) series of manuals published by WHO; these manuals are now available in 18 languages. He has participated on expert and technical committees at WHO, UNICEF, and USAID. As a member of the committee on birth outcomes at the National Institutes of Medicine and National Academy of Sciences, he has contributed to the landmark report “Improving Birth Outcomes” and “Decreasing Birth Defects”. He has extensive work experience in more than 25 countries assisting low-resource countries adopt evidence based guidelines, design training systems, develop health trainers and leaders, scale up training programs, seek innovative solutions and improve the performance of health services for women. Over the last four years he has led the effort in developing a global pool of maternal and neonatal health experts, focused world attention on new and innovative approaches for reducing mortality from postpartum hemorrhage, developed global training materials and trainers for emergency obstetric care while pursuing an active interest in family planning, cervical cancer prevention and reproductive health.

Scott Sasser, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine

Scott Sasser, M.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine (EM), Emory University School of Medicine and in the Department of International Health, Rollins School of Public Health. In addition to his clinical duties in the Emergency Departments at Grady Memorial Hospital and Crawford Long Hospital, Dr. Sasser is the Associate Director for the Center for Injury Control, works as a consultant for the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), leads the department’s International Health Fellowship, serves as the Medical Director for Rural Metro Ambulance North Georgia, and directs the Department of Emergency Medicine’s international programs.

Dr. Sasser’s primary interest is in the development of sustainable prehospital and emergency medical care systems in low and middle income countries. He serves on the Trauma and Emergency Care Steering Committee for the World Health Organization, is the co-principle investigator on a National Institute’s of Health Fogarty Center Grant to train physicians in the Republic of Mozambique, and is actively working with several countries in sub-Saharan Africa to improve their provision of prehospital trauma care.

Dr. Sasser completed medical school at Tulane University School of Medicine. Following graduation, Dr. Sasser completed residency training in Emergency Medicine at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he served as Chief Resident. He subsequently completed a fellowship in Emergency Medical Services at that same institution. Over the past ten years, Dr. Sasser has lived and worked internationally in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. He is board certified in Emergency Medicine.

Daniel Schainholz, MD

Dr. Daniel Schainholz is a graduate of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Following a year of surgical training, Dr. Schainholz completed a residency in ophthalmology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and a fellowship in low vision rehabilitation at the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. Following a brief stint as medical director of the San Francisco Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired, "Dr. Danny" moved his practice to On Lok Senior Health in San Francisco in order to enhance the clinical components of VR and working towards the development of standards of care for the field of Geriatric Ophthalmology. These days, Dr. Danny is finishing his sabbatical at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health earning his MPH degree with a concentration in Disaster Preparedness. Dr. Danny is a long-time volunteer with Rock Medicine of the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinics and the Disaster Medical Assistance Team of currently under the auspices of FEMA. In India, Dr. Dan has worked with the Aravind Eye Hospital in Madurai and the LV Prasad Eye Institute in Hyderabad. Dr. Schainholz has a long time affiliation with Volunteer Eye Surgeons International and has conducted several teaching-training missions in South Asia, the most recent of which was to Vietnam in January.

Cathy Schanzer, MD, Medical Director and Chief Surgeon, Southern Eye Associates

Dr. Schanzer has provided medical/surgical eye care to the poor and needy of Africa since 1988. What began as periodic medical missionary trips to various countries in Africa has led to the establishment of a permanent eye clinic and surgical center in Sierra Leone in January 2006. Dr. Schanzer now travels to Africa each summer and winter on medical missionary work.

A practicing ophthalmologist in Memphis, Tennessee, Dr. Schanzer is certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology, American College of Surgeons, American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, International Society of Refractive Surgery and is a member of both medical and ophthalmology components of her county, state and American Medical Associations. She received her medical degree from the University of Texas Medical School at Houston and performed her residency in ophthalmology at Baylor College of Medicine, also in Houston. Specializing in cataract and refractive surgery, Dr. Schanzer is the Medical Director of Southern Eye Associates and Eye Care Surgery Center of Memphis.

Ellen S. Schell, RN, PhD, International programs Director, Global AIDS Interfaith Alliance

Ellen S. Schell, R.N., Ph.D., is the International Programs Director of Global AIDS Interfaith Alliance a non-profit non-governmental organization that partners with religious organizations in resource-poor countries for community-based HIV prevention and care. With GAIA since 2001, Schell coordinates all GAIA's international projects, including training conferences for African religious leaders, the small grants program which provides funding to community based organizations providing HIV prevention and care, and the GAIA village projects which use women’s empowerment as key strategy in helping communities respond to the challenges of HIV/AIDS.

Prior to coming to GAIA, she was the Project Director at University of California San Francisco (UCSF) for two National Institutes of Health-funded projects related to ethnography and behavior, and was a research assistant on a UCSF-funded project devoted to health care assessment. She has held teaching, research, and clinical positions in nursing since 1981. Ellen Schell holds a B. A. degree from Yale, and a B.S. (cum laude,) M.S., and Ph.D. from UCSF. She has received 2 National Research Service Awards from the National Center for Nursing Research, and a Chancellor’s Fellowship from UCSF. She is a primary or co-author of twenty-five articles in health care journals.

Steven Schmidbauer, Executive Director, Child Family Health International; Clinical Assistant Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine

Steven Schmidbauer joined CFHI as Executive Director in 2004. Prior to 2004, he served six years as a program manager and director for one of the largest child and family service agencies in California, where his work in innovative program development was recognized at state and national levels. Steve received the Certificate in Nonprofit Management from the California State University at Hayward in 1998. Prior to working in California, Steve was a volunteer teacher in (1982-1985) and from 1990-1993, he worked to support international relief efforts in Central and South America. Steve holds a B.A. in Journalism, Broadcasting, and Speech from the State University of New York College at Buffalo, and an M.Div. from the University of Toronto. Steve travels extensively, making annual visits to CFHI sites worldwide.

William Selezinka, MD, Retired Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology, UCSD

William Selezinka, MD emigrated from Western Ukraine to Canada at the age of 4. He completed his undergraduate (B.Ed) and Doctor of Medicine degrees at the University of Alberta, Canada. He had a very active general practice in Santa Barbara, California. In 1969, he went to North Africa for 7 months on the Hope Ship. Upon return, he took an ophthalmology residency at McGill and the University of Michigan, and his volunteerism and humanitarianism flourished from then on. Dr. Selezinka held faculty positions at the University of California San Diego, where he served as Director of Ophthalmology Residency training and Chief of Ophthalmology at the San Diego Veterans Administration Hospital; and at Saint Louis University where he also served as Director of the Ophthalmology Residency Program.

In 1992, during his tenure at Saint Louis University, Dr. Selezinka established the Ukrainian Eye Project, a humanitarian mission to rehabilitate vision care services for the people of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (county), in western Ukraine. He made his first trip back to the land of his birth in August 1992, and delivered the first shipment of donated supplies and equipment (including a complete set of new microsurgical instruments, ultrasound machine, retinoscope, IOLs, medications, and 3 new ophthalmoscopes) valued at over $100,000 wholesale. From that point on, the Project grew (almost exponentially !) – with a team of 3 (Dr. Selezinka, a Senior Ophthalmology Resident and an OR Nurse) delivering over $250,000 worth of equipment and supplies in 1993; and another $100,000 worth of supplies and equipment delivered by 3 physicians, 2 Residents and an OR Nurse in 1994. The primary focus of the mission trips to Ukraine was teaching the Ukrainian vision care providers how to use and care for the modern and basic equipment, and to upgrade their ophthalmic surgical and medical skills. By 1997, Dr. Selezinka was leading a team of 14!, and in 1999, it was necessary for Dr. Selezinka to stay in Ivano-Frankivsk for 3 months while volunteer team members rotated for 7-14 days each. During these 3-month stays, Dr. Selezinka evaluated young patients for the Chornobyl Children’s Irish Aid Program, and he accompanied one group to Ireland for evaluation and treatment.

Between trips to Ukraine, Dr. Selezinka has brought a total of 10 children (with their mothers) to the U.S. for treatment that could not be effectively accomplished in Ukraine. In addition, three Ukrainian Ophthalmologists have received specialized training here in America. In 1997, the 500-page Wills Eye Manual, Office and Emergency Room Diagnosis and Treatment of Eye Disease, 2nd Edition, was translated into Ukrainian and distributed to Medical Schools and Residency programs throughout Ukraine.

Dr. Selezinka has received many awards for his humanitarian efforts in Ukraine; among them: Emeritus Professor of Ophthalmology, Saint Louis University, 1995;“Channel 10 Leadership Award”, KGTV San Diego, 1997; 50-bed Eye Hospital in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, named “The Ophthalmology Department of Professor William Selezinka”, 1997; Lion of the Year, northwestern Region District 4-L6, 1998-99; Lions Clubs International, President’s Award, 2000; Outstanding Humanitarian Service Award, American Academy of Ophthalmology 2000; Certificate of Special Recognition, U.S. Congress, 2001.

Ellen Shaffer, PhD, MPH, Co-Director, CPATH; Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Clinical Pharmacy, University of California at San Francisco

Ellen R. Shaffer is the Co-Director of Center for Policy Analysis on Trade and Health (CPATH).with Joe Brenner. CPATH is an independent organization that conducts research, policy analysis and advocacy on public health concerns regarding international trade agreements. It is widely recognized as a leading public health voice in global trade and sustainable development. CPATH called national attention to the impact of the US-Australia free trade agreement on drug reimportation measures, and is campaigning to democratize trade policy making. In 2006, Dr. Shaffer and Mr. Brenner developed and taught a semester-long course in Globalization and Health for U.S. college students traveling in India, China and South Africa through the International Honors Program. She is also an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy at the University of California, San Francisco. She served as health policy advisor to U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone from 1992 to 1995, guiding staff work on national health care reform and managed care patients' rights. In 2002, she represented the American Public Health Association on an international fact-finding mission to investigate a proposal to privatize the water system in Ghana, and was lead author of a resulting report on public health impacts. CPATH is a project of the Center for Policy Analysis, which is concerned broadly with access to health-related services. Dr. Shaffer’s proposal for a state-based universal health service, under a grant from the California Health Care Options Project, extended her work with U.S. Representative Barbara Lee on H.R. 3000, the U.S. Universal Health Service Act. She co-authored the chapter on politics in the latest edition of Our Bodies Ourselves. She has a Masters in Public Health from the University of California at Berkeley, a Ph.D. from the School of Hygiene and Public Health at Johns Hopkins University, and is a Certified Employee Benefits Specialist.

Eva Shaw, MPH, Research Technician, University of Arizona's Southwest Institute for Research on Women

Eva is a recent MPH graduate of the University of Arizona in Tucson and employed as a research technician with the U of A's Southwest Institute for Research on Women (SIROW.) Master's related research activities involved collaboration at the Arizona/Sonora border with BanComun, a microcredit agency servicing 1,000 clients in Nogales, Sonora and the development of BanComun's integrated health program. Apart from research at the border, current SIROW responsibilities involve evaluation of the PRISM Project, a prevention program for at-risk homeless and LGBT youth in Tucson. Previous work included research with homeless mothers with co-occuring substance abuse and mental health issues (the DHHS Homeless Families Study) and the Department of Agriculture study of elementary school students' nutrition, memory and cognition (The School Breakfast Pilot Project.) Additional community-based work in Phoenix has involved the provision of educational services to Mexican immigrant families as well as to underserved student populations, especially at the college level. Eva plans to continue her graduate studies in public health at the doctoral level, with special attention to community-based and participatory research methodologies, and U.S./Mexico border health.

Paul Sieving, MD, PhD, Director, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health

Dr. Sieving is Director of the National Eye Institute (NEI), which was established by the United States Congress in 1968 to protect and prolong the vision of the American people. One of the U.S. Federal government's National Institutes of Health (NIH), the NEI with a current budget of $667 million conducts and supports research that helps prevent and treat eye diseases and other disorders of vision.

After undergraduate work in history and physics, Dr. Sieving studied nuclear physics at Yale Graduate School in 1970-73 under D. Allan Bromley and then attended Yale Law School from 1973-74. He received his M.D. from the University of Illinois Medical School in 1978 and obtained a Ph.D. in bioengineering from the University of Illinois Graduate School in 1981. Dr. Sieving completed an ophthalmology residency at the University of Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary in Chicago. After a post-doctoral study of retinal physiology in 1982-84 at the University of California, San Francisco, he completed a clinical fellowship in genetic retinal degenerations with Eliot Berson in 1985 at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. Before becoming Director of the NEI, Dr. Sieving was the Paul R. Lichter Professor of Ophthalmic Genetics and was the founding Director of the Center for Retinal and Macular Degeneration in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Michigan Medical School.

Dr. Sieving is known internationally for studies of human genetic progressive blinding retinal neurodegenerations, termed retinitis pigmentosa, and rodent models of these conditions. His laboratory study of pharmacological approaches to slowing degeneration in transgenic animal models lead to the first human clinical therapy trial of ciliary neurotrophic factor, CNTF, for retinitis pigmentosa, which he reported in 2006. He also successfully treated a murine model of X-linked retinoschisis using gene transfer which restored retinal function. He maintains a clinical practice for patients with these and other genetic forms of retinal diseases, including Stargardt juvenile macular degeneration.

Dr. Sieving serves on the Bressler Vision Award Committee and serves on the jury for the annual $1 million Award for Vision Research of the Champalimaud Foundation, Portugal. He was elected to membership in the American Ophthalmological Society in 1993; the Academia Ophthalmologica Internationalis in 2005. He received an honorary Doctor of Science from Valparaiso University in 2003 and was named as one of The Best Doctors in America in 1998, 2001 and 2005. Dr. Sieving has received a number of awards, including the RPB Senior Scientific Investigator Award, 1998; the Alcon Award, Alcon Research Institute, 2000; and the 2005 Pisart Vision Award from the New York Lighthouse International for the Blind. In 2006, Dr. Sieving was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors in the fields of medicine and health.

Kuldev Singh, MD, MPH, Professor of Ophthalmology, Director of Glaucoma Service, Stanford University

Kuldev Singh, MD, MPH, received his medical degree from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a Master of Public Health Degree from the Department of Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins where he was also an Eleanor Naylor Dana Charitable Trust Research Fellow. He completed his residency in Ophthalmology at the Oregon Health Sciences University and a Heed Fellowship in glaucoma at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami, Florida. Dr. Singh has been on the faculty at Stanford as Director of the Glaucoma Service for the past 14 years. His academic interests include glaucoma, clinical epidemiology, economics of health care delivery, and ophthalmic approaches in developing countries. Dr. Singh was a member of the Baltimore Eye Survey Research Group. In addition to his glaucoma duties, he served as one of four advising deans from 2002-2005 and received the 2006 Franklin Ebaugh Award for advising medical students and service to the Stanford University School of Medicine.

Dr. Singh has published over 110 peer-reviewed articles, abstracts, and book chapters and has delivered over 100 lectures throughout the world. He has edited two ophthalmic textbooks: Advances in Ocular Pharmacology and Ophthalmology Review: A Case Study Approach. Dr. Singh has served on the editorial board of five ophthalmic publications including the Journal of Glaucoma. He currently serves on the Executive Committee of the American Glaucoma Society and co-chairs the Conduct of Meetings Committee of the Association of International Glaucoma Societies. Dr. Singh is the chair and methodologist for the glaucoma section of the Ophthalmic Technology Assessment Panel of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO). He was Glaucoma Subspecialty Day co-chair at the 2002 and 2003 AAO Meetings and continues to serve on the Subspecialty Day Committee. Dr. Singh received the Senior Achievement and Secretariat Awards from the AAO in 2005 and 2006 respectively and was on the team that won the Challenge Cup at the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery Meeting in 2006.

Pooja Sinha, MBBS, Ophthalmologist, AB Eye Institute, Patna, India

Dr Pooja Sinha is a retina specialist at AB Eye Institute in Patna, Bihar India. She attended Medical School and Post Graduation in South India at KMC Mangalore. She received super specialization in retina from Sankara Netralaya, Chennai, and she also did observership attachments at Stanford University in the US and at Oxford and Hull in UK. She regularly lectures worldwide, and she also volunteers annually in Ghana to provide free surgeries.

Satyajit Sinha, MBBS, Ophthalmologist, AB Eye Institute, Patna, India

Dr Satyajit Sinha is an ophthalmologist at AB Eye Institute in Patna, Bihar, India. He attended medical school at KMC Mangalore, and received Post graduation from Davangere, Phaco Fellowship from Sanaka Netralaya, Chennai, and Observership attachment in glaucoma at Stanford University. He lectures worldwide and also volunteers annually in Ghana.

Satyajit and Pooja Sinha, MBBS, Ophthalmologists, AB Eye Institute, Patna, India

Dr Satyajit Sinha is an ophthalmologist at AB Eye Institute in Patna, Bihar, India. He attended medical school at KMC Mangalore, and received Post graduation from Davangere, Phaco Fellowship from Sanaka Netralaya, Chennai, and Observership attachment in glaucoma at Stanford University. He lectures worldwide and also volunteers annually in Ghana.

Dr Pooja Sinha is a retina specialist at AB Eye Institute in Patna, Bihar India. She attended Medical School and Post Graduation in South India at KMC Mangalore. She received super specialization in retina from Sankara Netralaya, Chennai, and she also did observership attachments at Stanford University in the US and at Oxford and Hull in UK. She regularly lectures worldwide, and she also volunteers annually in Ghana to provide free surgeries.

D. Scott Smith, MD, MSc, DTM&H, Chief of Infectious Disease and Geographic Medicine, Kaiser Redwood City Hospital

Dr. Smith grew up in Colorado where he attended medical school at the University of Colorado. He went to public health school at Harvard University where an interest in Tropical Public Health was further developed, leading to a year long adventure on a Fulbright scholarship in Colombia South America, seeking improved diagnostic technologies to understand the epidemiology of leishmaniasis. He completed residency and a Fellowship at Stanford University in Medicine then Infectious Disease & Geographic Medicine.

Dr. Smith practices at Kaiser in Redwood City, California where he heads the HIV/AIDS clinic and oversees the travel medicine services. He teaches at Stanford Medical School in the Microbiology and Immunology Division and directs a course for undergraduates in Human Biology entitled “Parasites & Pestilence: Public Health Challenges”.

In his spare time, he keeps chickens and bees and enjoys travel with the family; most recently this year the family returned from Zimbabwe where rhinos, giraffes, zebras and ticks were spotted.

Samuel So, MD, Lui Hac Minh Professor of Surgery; Director, Asian Liver Center; Director, Liver Cancer Program, Stanford University School of Medicine

Dr. So is the director of the Asian Liver Center, and the leader of the Jade Ribbon Campaign. He is the first holder of the Lui Hac Minh endowed professorship in the Department of Surgery at the Stanford University School of Medicine, and directs the Liver Cancer Program. In 1996, he established the Asian Liver Center to address the high prevalence of liver disease and liver cancer in the Asian population and to find solutions through 1) research in studying the genomic of liver cancer in search of novel diagnostic and treatment approaches, 2) establishment of a multidisciplinary liver tumor clinic to optimize the treatment outcome, and 3) to spearhead efforts in disease prevention, health education, outreach and advocacy.

Dr. So authored over 130 peer-reviewed articles and 25 book chapters, and leads an international collaborative research team in studying the genomics of liver and stomach cancers. He is also an Asian health activist, and helped to develop a liver cancer prevention strategy for the state of California in 2003. He also spearheaded the drafting of the National Hepatitis B Act (HR4550) that was introduced in Congress on Dec 15, 2005 . Dr. So is currently a member on the Board of Population Health and Public Health Practice of the Institute of Medicine, a consultant for the FDA, and chairs the National Viral Hepatitis B Task Force.

Among his accomplishments, Dr. So is listed in the Best Doctors in America, Top Doctors by the San Francisco and San Jose Magazines, Marquis Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in Science and Technology, Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare, Who’s Who in the World, and 2000 Outstanding Scientists of the 21st Century: Order of Excellence. He received the Santiago Ramon y Cajal Award for Outstanding Research in Minority Health presented in Washington, DC at the National Minority Health Month in 2003, the Stanford Asian Community Faculty Award in 2003, the Local Hero of the Year Award from KQED, San Francisco Public Television and Radio in 2004, Community Hero Award from World Journal Chinese newspaper in 2004, Profile of Excellence Award from ABC7, San Francisco in 2004, and the 2005 National Leadership Award from the New York University Center for Asian Health.

Mustapha Sonnie, Eye Care Technician, Sierra Leone, Helen Keller International

Mustapha Sonnie, Eye Care Programme Manager and Communications Officer, Helen Keller International/Sierra Leone completed his undergraduate work in Biology at Fourah Bay College, and two years of post graduate study in Medical Physiology at the College of Medicine And Allied Health Sciences at the University of Sierra Leone, Freetown. Prior to joining HKI, Mr. Sonnie worked with the American Refugee Committee as an STI (sexually transmitted infections) Control Officer, designing and managing their health promotion efforts, and with GOAL- Sierra Leone as a health trainer, organising training of HIV/AIDS and STI Peer Educators with vulnerable groups such as sex workers, street children, sexually abused women and girls, truck drivers, policemen and sailors. Since joining HKI in 2003, Mustapha has managed HKI's onchocerciasis control program, developing onchocerciasis communications tools and IEC meesages for Sierra Leone's community - based ivermectin distribution/Onchocerciasis Control program.

Piya Sorcar, MA, PhD Candidate, Stanford University

Piya Sorcar is the author and director of Interactive Teaching AIDS, an animation-based curriculum developed to teach HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention strategies via ICT. Based on IRB-approved research, this application targets the vulnerable category of young adults to promote awareness despite cultural and social barriers abundant in many developing countries. Sorcar is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at Stanford University in Learning Sciences and Technology Design / International Comparative Education and is a program advisor for Stanford’s Learning, Design & Technology master’s program. She is a board member of XRI, a California-based non-profit which specializes in rich media medical education.

Sorcar has been a storyboard/screenplay consultant for many international award-winning children's educational programs and was nominated for a Regional Emmy Award as a lead actress. She was previously an economic research analyst with Analysis Group where she completed financial models for complex litigation and transfer pricing cases, and conducted market research and data analysis. Sorcar holds an M.A. in Education from Stanford University, and graduated summa cum laude from the University of Colorado at Boulder with a B.A. in Economics, B.S. in Journalism, and B.S. in Business Administration.

Bruce Spivey, MD, President, International Council of Ophthalmology

Dr. Spivey is currently the President of the International Council of Ophthalmology as well as the Deputy Executive President of the Council of Medical Specialty Societies. He resides in San Francisco.

Dr. Spivey, trained as an ophthalmologist and an educator, has served as the CEO of a number of health related organizations. He served as President and CEO of Northwestern Healthcare Network, a multi-hospital system in Chicago from 1992-1997, and Columbia-Cornell Care in New York 1997-2001. He served as CEO of the following organizations, each in San Francisco: American Academy of Ophthalmology 1976-1991; the California Healthcare System 1986-1992; and California Pacific Medical Center 1976-1992.

He also has been President of the American Board of Medical Specialties and the Council of Medical Specialties, and is the founder of the Ophthalmic Mutual Insurance Company. He serves on numerous Boards and Trustees including the United States-China Educational Institute, International Council of Ophthalmology, the Foundation of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, Helen Keller Worldwide, MedEx and Coe College. He is the author of over 110 scientific publications.

William Sponsel, MD, Professor, UTHSCSA, San Antonio, Texas

Dr. William "Rick" Sponsel is Professor, Director of the Glaucoma Service and Director of Clinical Research in the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Texas. Dr. Sponsel attended Bristol University, one of Britain's leading medical schools, between 1974 and 1986. During that time he completed his premedical First MB, ChB (1975), obtained a Bachelor of Science degree with Honors in Biochemistry (1978), a Medical degree (1983), completed his medical and surgical internships (1984) and received a second Doctoral degree by thesis for his original glaucoma research (1986). He completed a research fellowship at the University of Bristol's National Eye Research Center (1984-85), and was an Honorary Fellow/Primary Investigator at University of Wisconsin Health Sciences Center (1986-88), where he also completed a residency in ophthalmology (1988-91).

Dr. Sponsel has a long-established international reputation for broad-ranging research into the etiology, diagnosis, and treatment of the glaucomas and other ocular disorders. He is widely acknowledged by his peers as one of the preeminent clinician/researchers in this very important field. He has authored and published multiple journal articles and book chapters and is a reviewer for a dozen other international journals, including all the premier ophthalmic journals of the United States and Europe. He has frequently been invited to chair sessions at national and international conferences, and has hosted several national and international meetings in San Antonio.

Dr. Sponsel is among the world's most sought speakers in Glaucoma. He has presented invited talks in more than 60 different venues in Europe, spanning the entire continent, since 1981. During that time he has also presented well over 100 invited lectures in the United States, and has been invited to speak numerous times in Asia, the Pacific, South America and the Caribbean.

Boris Stanzel, MD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Ophthalmology, Stanford University School of Medicine

B. Stanzel was born in Germany in 1976. He graduated from medical school in Vienna/ Austria in 2004. While a medical student, he developed an interest in retinal research, studying photoreceptor degeneration in the extreme periphery of human eyes with Peter Ahnelt and subsequently RPE culture techniques related to RPE transplantation with Susanne Binder. The latter led to a 1 year research fellowship at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami/ FL with JM Parel and S.C.G. Tseng in 2002. RPE transplantation has remained his main field of interest also on his post doctoral fellowship with M. Marmor& M. Blumenkranz at Stanford University, which he started in Jan. 2005. Dr. Stanzel plans to start clinical training in Ophthalmology in summer 2007.

Bradley R. Straatsma, MD, JD, President International Council of Ophthalmology Foundation; Professor Emeritus, Jules Stein Eye Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Bradley R. Straatsma graduated from Yale University (M.D., Cum Laude) and the University of West Los Angeles (J.D., Cum Laude). He commenced appointment as Associate Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1959, was appointed Professor in 1962, Director of the Jules Stein Eye Institute in 1964, and Chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology in 1968. He retained these positions until stepping down in 1994. Currently, Dr. Straatsma is Professor of Ophthalmology Emeritus.

Representative positions have included President of the American Academy of Ophthalmology; Chairman of the American Board of Ophthalmology; President of the Pan-American Association of Ophthalmology; Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Ophthalmology; and President of the Academia Ophthalmologica Internationalis.

Current positions include International Council of Ophthalmology Member and President of the International Council of Ophthalmology Foundation. Recent among more than 50 distinguished lectures are the Academia Ophthalmologica Internationalis Lecture (2005) and the Duke-Elder Oration (2006). He is author of more than 500 scientific publications.

Sonesh Surana, PhD Candidate, University of California at Berkeley

Sonesh Surana is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley, where he is a member of the TIER research group.

TIER is an interdisciplinary team of researchers that looks at building

hardware/software infrastructure explicitly designed for the political, economic and social realities in developing regions.

His current focus is designing and deploying appropriate low cost technologies to improve health care delivery in under-served areas. He has led and continues to manage the expansion of the Aravind telemedicine project which connects remote rural primary eye care centers to secondary/tertiary hospitals using very low cost WiFi-based technologies. He is also working on the use of cellphones/smartphones as shared platforms for accurate and timely health care data collection in rural areas and in many cases, even for automated/assisted diagnosis of very basic health care problems.

Christopher Ta, MD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, Stanford University

Christopher Ta, MD is an assistant professor in the Department of Ophthalmology. He specializes in the diagnosis and medical and surgical treatment of cornea diseases. His clinical interests are in the treatment of dry eyes, ocular infection and inflammation, and cornea transplantation. Dr. Ta is a principal investigator for research in ocular infections. He also collaborates with the Department of Chemical Engineering in the development of novel polymers to be used as cornea replacement materials for refractive corrections and artificial corneas.

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

Dr. Geoffrey Tabin is Professor of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences and Director of the Division of International Ophthalmology at the John A Moran Eye Center, University of Utah. He graduated from Yale University and then earned an MA in Philosophy at Oxford University on a Marshall Scholarship. He brought his interest in moral philosophy and health care delivery to Harvard Medical School where he received his MD in 1985. After a climbing trip to Nepal on which he became the first ophthalmologist to summit Mt. Everest, he watched a Dutch team perform cataract surgery on a woman who had been blind for three years. Before surgery she could not detect the motion of a hand two inches from her face. After the surgery she could see. At the time no native doctor in Nepal was performing modern cataract surgery under a microscope or with a lens implant. Dr. Tabin realized that to solve the problem of blindness in the developing world would require a two-pronged approach: create tertiary centers of excellence in ophthalmic service and establish primary regional clinics staffed by physicians specifically trained in eye care. Moreover, Dr. Tabin concluded that these solutions could only be achieved by educating and empowering local doctors.

After completing an ophthalmology residency at Brown University and a fellowship in corneal surgery in Melbourne, Australia, Dr. Tabin returned to Nepal to work with Dr. Sanduk Ruit, the first Nepali ophthalmologist to use intraocular lens implants. Dr. Tabin adopted Ruit’s methods for delivering high quality cataract surgery at a very low cost and began teaching other Nepali ophthalmologists while running the eye hospital in Biratnagar, Nepal’s second largest city. During those years, Tabin and Ruit trained the first Tibetan surgeon to perform microscopic cataract surgery and refined their method of skills-transfer via high-volume cataract camps. Dr. Tabin and Dr. Ruit vowed to add their own efforts to those of other existing eye care programs, with a goal of overcoming treatable and preventable blindness in the Himalayan region in their lifetime. Dr. Ruit established the Tilganga Eye Centre in 1994 as the first outpatient cataract surgery facility in the Himalayan region. In 1995 Dr. Ruit and Dr. Tabin formally began the Himalayan Cataract Project as a charitable foundation to support their work. From the start, the projects of the Tilganga Eye Centre have been a central focus of the Himalayan Cataract Project.

Dr. Tabin spends at least three months per year in Asia working with his Nepalese counterparts directing Tilganga Eye Centre’s efforts to provide an international standard of eye care and participating in the outreach programs. As the director of the Himalayan Cataract Project, he has over ten years experience administering an international charitable organization, which includes: coordinating fundraising; recruiting American faculty; soliciting donations of equipment; and facilitating the logistics of transporting donations and volunteers to Asia.

He is a leader in both the local ophthalmologic community and the American Academy of Ophthalmology. He is a member of the International Education Committee for the American Academy of Ophthalmology and teaches a course on cataract surgery at both the American Academy of Ophthalmology and the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons.

Treating every single eye as being as valuable as a life, and striving for excellence in every surgery and surgeon he trains, Dr. Tabin embodies the compassion that is the core of the medical profession. Through his work as co-director of the Himalayan Cataract Project, Dr. Tabin is making a significant difference in the world.

Shachar Tauber, MD, Director of Ophthalmology Research, Cornea and Refractive Surgery, Department of Ophthalmology and Optometry, St. John's Hospital and Clinics

Dr. Tauber, who is on Unite For Sight's Medical Advisory Board, is a leader in refractive surgery. He participated in clinical research supporting the FDA approval of LASIK for correction of hyperopia. He was Visiting Fellow in advanced techniques in refractive surgery in Venezuela, and served as an observational fellow in cornea and external disease at Massachusetts Eye & Ear Hospital. Dr. Tauber was invited to educate ophthalmologists at the 1998 Global Ophthalmology Conference in China and at Tamil Nadu Medical University in India in 1999.

Fred Tavill, MD, DpH, Senior Program Consultant, Center for International health

Dr. Frederick Tavill currently is the Senior Program Consultant at the Center for International Health (CIH), Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he served as Executive and Medical Director for sixteen years. CIH is a consortium of an academic health center and area-wide universities and health professions schools established in 1985 as a public-private venture funded by USAID and Milwaukee County.

Dr. Tavill graduated from the Manchester University School of Medicine, England. After working as a general practitioner in England, South Africa and Iran, he served as chief of party and medical director in primary health care development programs in Iran and Morocco for a total of twelve years. His academic and professional career in the US includes appointments as faculty member in the Department of Community Medicine at the Boston University Medical School and Medical Director of the Roxbury Comprehensive Neighborhood Health Center, Boston, Massachusetts; faculty member in the Department of Preventive Medicine, Associate Dean for Ambulatory and Community Medicine, Associate Dean for Geriatrics and Gerontology at the Medical College of Wisconsin, and Medical Director of Milwaukee County Downtown Medical and Health Services, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Executive Director of the MetroHealth Clement Center for Family Care, MetroHealth System Cleveland, Ohio; and Medical Director, City of Cleveland Department of Public Health, Ohio.

Jeff Todd, JD, Vice President Programs and Public Health, Prevent Blindness America

Jeff Todd joined Prevent Blindness America in early 2003. As Vice President of Programs and Public Health, he directs these key aspects of this long standing national non-profit (formerly the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness). In addition to leading a comprehensive vision health program funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Jeff coordinates agency-wide strategic planning and directs other key national programs including vision health and screening initiatives for children and adults, safety education programs, research initiatives, and information distribution efforts. Jeff brings with him a history in community development with a focus on youth-related issues. His diverse educational background includes degrees in business, communications, and law.

Jeff has worked in government, non-profit, and for-profit environments. Beginning his career in the Governor's Office of the State of Indiana, Jeff coordinated a statewide community development initiative focused on substance abuse prevention. He then moved to a position with the Center for Youth as Resources, coordinating field operations for this national organization focused on positive youth development. Prior to Prevent Blindness America, Jeff managed the National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center, a comprehensive resource of federal government, coordinated through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Kim N. Tran, BA Candidate, Dartmouth College

Kim Tran is currently a senior at Dartmouth College, a music major on the premed track. She is interested in international health, particularly in Ghana where she worked in summer 2006 as a Unite For Sight intern, and also her family's native country of Vietnam. Her dream is to work in the international health field as as physician in her future career. Unite For Sight has been a stepping stone for her dreams, and Kim continues to keep contact with Dr. Wanye, the ophthamalogist at Tamale Teaching Hospital, and all her team members that worked together that summer. Besides studying hard, she loves practicing martial arts (aikido and jujutsu) and playing guitar in her free time.

Landry Tsague, MD, William H. Foege Fellow, Department of Global Health at Emory Rollins School of Public Health

Dr. Landry Tsague is a William FOEGE Fellow at the Hubert Department of Global Health of the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University. He is physician from Cameroon where he is the National Coordinator of the Program for the Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) of HIV. With a solid background in clinical medicine and epidemiology, Dr Tsague has been involved during the last 5 years in the fight against HIV/AIDS at the National AIDS program in Cameroon. As one of the key actors of the successful scaling up of the PMTCT program in Cameroon, he received two International Awards for these significant achievements (International Aids Society Young Investigator- Rio de Janeiro 2005; New Investigator in Global Health at the International Global Health Council Conference –Washington 2006).

Dr Landry Tsague lead the monitoring and evaluation department of the PMTCT program for 2 years before his appointment as National Coordinator, and collaborated with a wide range of partners in designing strategies and tools for the successful National PMTCT program in Cameroon. As one of his major achievement, is the innovative software AFFIXE-PMTCT, designed by his team to monitor PMTCT programs in resource limited settings. This tool has made a great impact and influence on the Cameroon’s PMTCT program.

More importantly, Dr Tsague played a key role as member of the Technical Advisory Committee for the development of the three successful Cameroon's Global Fund proposals for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. His Primary research interest includes health systems strengthening, access to effective regimen for PMTCT in resource limited settings, and impact of antiretroviral program in developing countries. Dr Tsague is a member of the International AIDS Society, the Global Health Council, and he has authored and co-authored over 20 abstracts and scientific papers.

Susan Tuddenham, , MSc IR, MD Candidate, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA and Catherine Lee, MPH

Susan Tuddenham, MSc IR, has worked extensively in Southeast Asia on a variety of public health projects ranging from HIV prevention to eye health. A graduate of Yale University and the London School of Economics, she is currently a second year medical student at UCLA. She has worked with the Global Health Access Project (GHAP) for the last year, while in medical school. She spent last summer on the Northern and Eastern Burmese borders helping to plan and implement malaria prevention and treatment, Vitamin A, Deworming, and maternal health projects. She hopes in the future to pursue a career in international health and health policy.

Catherine Lee, MPH, graduate of The University of Michigan, has extensive field experience in Asia and Southeast Asia working on a variety of public health-related population-based interventions. These include malaria control, vitamin A distribution, and deworming programs. In addition, she has been a part of the development and implementation of health documentation instruments used to collect information on displaced populations in Eastern Burma. She currently works as the Program Coordinator for the Mobile Obstetric Maternal health worker (MOM) Project, a multi-ethnic, cross-border project aimed at reducing maternal and neonatal mortality and providing basic emergency obstetric care in the field through a series of specialized health workers, community health workers and traditional birth attendants.

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

Dr. Velji was born in Kenya and is currently the Chief of Infectious Disease at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, South Sacramento , and Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California School of Medicine at Davis. He is a graduate of the Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, Ireland, and completed his Internal Medicine residencies at St. Raphel's Hospital (Yale), University of Ottawa and University of Alberta, Edmonton. He completed his Fellowship in Infectious Disease at UC Davis. Dr. Velji is a Co-Founder of GHEC, has chaired and served on several committees in GHEC, and is the GHEC Treasurer. He is currently Vice President of the Northern California Infectious Disease Society and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada and of the Infectious Disease Society of America. He was the Founding Director of the Medicine House Staff program ( South Sacramento Kaiser/UCD). He served as Assistant Edi! tor for International Health, Western Journal of Medicine, and was the Guest Editor for two volumes on International Health (1991/1995) in the Saunders series of Infectious Diseases Clinics.

Jerry Vincent, OD, MPH, International Rescue Committee - Health Unit; Blindness Prevention Consultant

Dr. Jerry Vincent is a public health optometrist who has spent more than 20 years living and working at various locations in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.

For the past 15 years he has specialized in complex humanitarian emergencies in order to provide eye care to refugees, displaced and war affected populations.

As the blindness prevention consultant for the International Rescue Committee, Dr. Vincent helps develop, provides technical support for and monitors Vision 2020 related activities within IRC’s health programs. These eye activities now provide coverage to over one million people in eight different countries in Africa and Asia.

Jerry frequently lectures to students and health professionals and speaks to the public on blindness prevention, public health and refugee health care and serves in advisory capacities to several international eye organizations.

Now recognized as the leading authority on refugee eye care, Dr. Vincent was the inaugural recipient of the Essilor/UNESCO International Award for Vision in Development in 2003 and was named the International Optometrist of the Year by the World Council of Optometry in 2006.

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

Dr. Paul Volberding is a Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and Chief of the Medical Service at the San Francisco Veterans Administration Medical Center. He received his undergraduate and medical degrees at the University of Chicago and the University of Minnesota, respectively, and finished training at the University of Utah and the University of California, San Francisco, where he studied for two years as a research fellow in the virology laboratory of Dr. Jay Levy, later a co-discoverer of HIV. For twenty years, Dr. Volberding’s professional activities centered at San Francisco General Hospital where he established a model program of AIDS patient care, research, and professional education. His research career began with investigations of HIV-related malignancies, especially Kaposis Sarcoma. His primary research focus, however, shifted to clinical trials of antiretroviral drugs. He has been instrumental in testing many compounds, including early studies in asymptomatic infection that lead to the concept of HIV disease, not simply AIDS as the target of treatment. Dr. Volberding has written many research and review articles. He is the co-editor in chief of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, and a founder of HIV InSite, a comprehensive source of HIV information. He is the founder and Chair of the Board of the International AIDS Society - USA. He is currently the President of the HIV Medical Association. He was elected a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 1999.

Seth Wanye, MD, The Eye Clinic of Tamale Teaching Hospital, Ghana

Dr. Seth Wanye is an ophthalmologist at The Eye Clinic of Tamale Teaching Hospital in Northern Ghana and a member of Unite For Sight's Medical Advisory Board. Born in Ghana, he received his medical degree from Kharkov Medical School (Ukraine) in 1990 and continued graduate studies at Ulianovsk State University (Russia). From 1997-2000, he completed his internship and Master of Surgery (Ophthalmology) in Moscow Medical Academy and completed his PhD in Ophthalmology at the Russian Academy for Advanced Medical Training in 2002. He subsequently worked with SDA Hospital at Asamang near Kumasi and at Komfo Anoyke Teaching Hospital in Kumasi, Ghana. In May 2004, Dr. Wanye became Regional Ophthalmologist and Coordinator for Trachoma Control Program for Northern Region, Ghana. He is also a part-time lecturer at the University for Development Studies in Tamale.

Seth Wanye., MD, The Eye Clinic of Tamale Teaching Hospital, Ghana

Dr. Seth Wanye is an ophthalmologist at The Eye Clinic of Tamale Teaching Hospital in Northern Ghana. Born in Ghana, he received his medical degree from Kharkov Medical School (Ukraine) in 1990 and continued graduate studies at Ulianovsk State University (Russia). From 1997-2000, he completed his internship and Master of Surgery (Ophthalmology) in Moscow Medical Academy and completed his PhD in Ophthalmology at the Russian Academy for Advanced Medical Training in 2002. He subsequently worked with SDA Hospital at Asamang near Kumasi and at Komfo Anoyke Teaching Hospital in Kumasi, Ghana. In May 2004, Dr. Wanye became Regional Ophthalmologist and Coordinator for Trachoma Control Program for Northern Region, Ghana. He is also a part-time lecturer at the University for Development Studies in Tamale.

Jeffrey Watson, , MS, Director of Overseas Operations, Christian Blind Mission International - USA

Jeff Watson has over twenty years experience in planning and managing overseas health development programs with a major emphasis on strengthening in-country capacity to facilitate sustainable program efforts. Jeff joined CBMI in 1995 as the Program Coordinator for the River Blindness Program in Jos, Nigeria, West Africa. There he planned and developed a program for the control of onchocerciasis serving a population of over two million people and worked closely with Ministry of Health in planning and implementation of model ivermectin (Mectizan®) distribution program.

In 2001, Jeff and his family moved to Greenville, SC so Jeff could serve as the Director of Overseas Operations for CBMI-USA. In 2005, Jeff helped to coordinate the International leadership of CBMI to promote the discipline of quality project management for its global five-year strategic plan. Prior to joining CBMI, Jeff worked for USAID in the Philippines as a Health Education Specialist. He worked with Helen Keller International as a Country Director in the Philippines and as the Asia-Pacific Regional Director. Jeff also worked as a Consultant for Community Health Programs at Project ORBIS. Jeff served in the U.S. Peace Corp in Korea from 1973 to 1975 and again in the Philippines from 1979 to 1982.

Jeff's board and committee membership includes National Onchocerciasis Control Task Force (NOTF) Committee, Nigeria; Technical Consultative Committee member for African Onchocerciasis Control (APOC); WHO Consultant for Onchocerciasis Control; and Substitute Teaching Leader for Bible Study Fellowship (BSF) International.

Sarah Wells, MA, Associate Director, Women in Government

Sarah Wells is the Senior Director of Public Policy for Women In Government. She has been with Women In Government for seven years. In this position she oversees all public policy outreach, programs, and research as well as the Legislative Membership Program. She works closely with the President and Board of Directors an organizational strategic planning, agenda development, establishing partnerships and coalition-building with related organizations and is the editor of several Women In Government policy publications.

Daniel J. West, PhD, Professor and Chairman, Department of Health Administration and Human Resources, and Steve Szydlowski, MBA, MHA, PhD Candidate, Medical University of South Carolina

Dr. West is the Chairman and Professor in the Department of Health Administration and Human Resources, University of Scranton. He teaches in the Graduate School at the University of Scranton and has specialized in international health care, globalization, multiculturalism and diversity management. He holds a Professor in Public Health appointment at Trnava University, Slovakia and a Visiting Professor appointment at the University of Matej Bel in Slovakia. He was recently appointed Affiliated Faculty at Tbilisi State Medical University, Department of Public Health and Health Management, Tbilisi, Georgia. Dr. West is on the Scientific Council at St. Elizabeth University and has an Affiliated Research Professor appointment at the Center for International Health Services Research and Policy at Washington State University. He is President and Chief Executive Officer of HTC Consulting Group, Inc. Dr. West is a Certified Healthcare Consultant with the American Association of Healthcare Consultants, and board certified in healthcare management by the American College of Healthcare Executives. He is a dedicated and hardworking teacher, consultant and scholar who has achieved success and been recognized for his accomplishments in international healthcare projects and activities in Central Europe and Eurasia.

Dr. West has been a CEO for a hospital, medical practice and several health care businesses. In addition to 32 years of health care management, consulting and leadership experience, Dr. West maintains Fellowship with the American College of Healthcare Executives, American College of Medical Practice Executives, American Academy of Medical Administrators, American College of Health Care Administrators, American Academy of Behavioral Medicine, and Association of Behavioral Healthcare Management. He serves on the Board of Directors for the Health Care Management Forum of Northeastern Pennsylvania and the Regents Advisory Council for Northeast Pennsylvania. Other Board memberships include the Healthy Northeast Pennsylvania Initiative, Scranton Temple Residency Program, Medical Advisory Board of the International Brain Trauma Association, Scranton Temple Residency Program IRB, and the Behavioral Health Research Institute. He is recognized as in International Fellow at the University of Scranton and serves as Co-Director of the Center for Global Health and Rehabilitation.

Steven J. Szydlowski completed his Master of Business Administration in 2000 and Master of Health Administration in 2001 from the University of Scranton. He is currently enrolled in Doctoral studies in health administration and leadership at the Medical University of South Carolina. Steven held executive positions at a community hospital and physician group practices and works with the Healthy Northeast Pennsylvania Initiative. He also serves in faculty capacity at the University of Scranton and is interested in community health research.

Steven writes and speaks about global health issues, health care management, and community health. He has contributed a portion of a book chapter for the first health management textbook in the Republic of Georgia. He has published in scholarly and professional journals and has given numerous presentations and served on panels at international academic and practitioner conferences. He has facilitated management development workshops and strategic planning sessions in several countries. His scholarly service includes Associate Editor for the Journal of Rehabilitation and Education for Children with Disabilities.

Emily Whichard, Program Officer, Global Health Access Program, Berkeley School of Public Health

Emily Whichard, graduate of UCLA, has extensive field experience in South Africa, Central America and Southeast Asia working on a variety of public health interventions. These include malaria control, HIV harm reduction, Vitamin A distribution, and de-worming programs. She has worked with Global Health Access Program since January 2006 and currently serves as GHAP Program Officer. Emily is applying to medical school for matriculation in Fall 2007 and plans to pursue a career in international health and policy.

Karen White, MBA, MPH, Senior Researcher, Institute for Global Health, UCSF

Karen White, MBA, MPH is a Senior Researcher at The Institute for Global Health where she conducts research and is responsible for project management across The Institute's program areas. Ms White is currently Project Director for UCSF's University Technical Assistance Program which supports CDC's Global AIDS Program in surveillance and monitoring & evaluation (M&E) activities. As a part of this grant, Ms. White is working on several "triangulation" projects which attempt to use multiple existing data sources to answer key HIV/AIDS questions of national interest in Botswana, Malawi, Cambodia and Ethiopia. Ms White's research interests also include public private partnerships for global health, as well as health system comparisons. Prior to her work at IGH, Ms. White has worked in global sales and marketing for medical device and biotech companies, as a strategic consultant to the healthcare industry, and as a Director of Business Development for a healthcare technology company. Ms. White has extensive international work experience in countries including Malawi, Mexico, Mozambique, Venezuela, Brazil, China, Korea, Japan, and Russia. Ms. White received her MBA and MPH from UC Berkeley and her BA from Dartmouth College.

Tanya Whitehead, PhD, University of Missouri - Kansas City

After an appointment in research and teaching at the University of Kansas, School of Medicine (1987-1996) Dr. Whitehead has served at the University of Missouri- Kansas City (1996 - present) as research and teaching faculty. Her background includes 9 years in clinical practice of psychology, 14 years in higher education teaching, and 20 years in research. Dr. Whitehead's record of technical publishing includes new media workshops, website development, scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals, technical manuals, program evaluations, online educational and training workshops, and print-based training materials. Currently she designs projects and conducts evaluations on the development of higher education leadership and nursing education programs nationally and internationally, and serves as a peer reviewer for the US Department of Health and Human Services and US Assistance for International Development. She is a Commissioner on Accreditation for the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) and a member of the board of the Association for the Advancement of Higher Education Research.

M. Roy Wilson, MD, MS, Chancellor, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center

Dr. M. Roy Wilson began serving as chancellor of the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center in July, 2006. He is an elected member of the Institutes of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Ophthalmological Society, and the Glaucoma Society of the International Congress of Ophthalmology.

Dr. Wilson’s major scientific contributions have been in bridging the fields of epidemiology and ophthalmology. He actively participates on numerous national boards and committees, with particular focus on ophthalmology and on the health of underserved populations. Among these are the Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas, EyeCare America (the Glaucoma Project of the American Academy of Ophthalmology), and the Association of International Glaucoma Society’s Committee on Global Research and Screening, for which he is the co-chair. Additionally, Dr. Wilson was an initial Advisory Council member of the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities of the National Institutes of Health and served four years as chair of its Strategic Plan subcommittee.

Dr. Wilson received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and his Master of Science in epidemiology at the UCLA School of Public Health. He performed both his ophthalmology residency and glaucoma fellowship at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Wilson was named president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in 2003. In 1998, he was appointed dean of the School of Medicine at Creighton University, and then served as both dean and vice president for Health Sciences from 1999-2003. Prior to that time, he was professor of ophthalmology both at the Jules Stein Eye Institute of UCLA and Charles R. Drew University of Medicine & Science.

Dr. Wilson has delivered more than 200 invited lectures, many of these internationally, and has published more than 200 articles, book chapters and abstracts.

Paul Wise, MD, MPH, Richard E. Berhman Professor of Child Health and Society, Stanford University

Dr. Wise is Professor of Pediatrics at Stanford University School of Medicine and the Centers for Health Policy and Primary Care Outcomes Research, Stanford University. Until July, 2004, Dr. Wise was Vice-Chief of the Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities in the Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Visiting Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School. Also until July 2004, Dr. Wise was Professor of Pediatrics in the Boston University School of Medicine, Professor of Maternal and Child Health in the Boston University School of Public Health, Director of Social and Health Policy Research in the Department of Pediatrics, Boston Medical Center and Associate in Medicine at the Children’s Hospital, Boston. Dr. Wise received his A.B. and M.D. degrees from Cornell University, did his pediatric training at the Children’s Hospital in Boston, and received a Master of Public Health degree from the Harvard School of Public Health. His earlier positions include serving as the Director of Emergency and Primary Care Services at the Children’s Hospital, Boston and Director of the Harvard Institute for Reproductive and Child Health at Harvard Medical School. He also served as a special expert at the National Institutes of Health and Special Assistant to the U.S. Surgeon General. From 2000-2006, Dr. Wise served as the Chair of the Steering Committee of the NIH Global Network for Women’s and Children’s Health Research and has participated in a variety of research and clinical programs around the world. His research is directed at the health of children in resource poor settings around the world and social disparities in child health.

Elliott Wolfe, MD, Consulting Professor of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine

Dr. Wolfe graduated from UCSF School of Medicine in 1959. He started as a clinical instructor at Stanford in 1970, and since 1992 has directed "Preparation for Clinical Medicine (PCM) parts A and B," a course he continued to teach after being appointed associate dean in 1994. Wolfe was active in Stanford teaching activities during a 25-year career at Kaiser Permanente Medical Centers, where in 1987 he was appointed Stanford's assistant dean for medical education, serving as liaison between the Stanford teaching program and Kaiser clinical activities. Before leaving Kaiser, Wolfe served as director of regional staff education for Northern California. An internist, Wolfe has been honored at commencement several times with awards for clinical teaching. In 1998 he received the National Golden Apple for Teaching Excellence Award from the American Medical Student Association.

Elliott Wolfe., MD, Consulting Professor of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine

Dr. Wolfe graduated from UCSF School of Medicine in 1959. He started as a clinical instructor at Stanford in 1970, and since 1992 has directed "Preparation for Clinical Medicine (PCM) parts A and B," a course he continued to teach after being appointed associate dean in 1994. Wolfe was active in Stanford teaching activities during a 25-year career at Kaiser Permanente Medical Centers, where in 1987 he was appointed Stanford's assistant dean for medical education, serving as liaison between the Stanford teaching program and Kaiser clinical activities. Before leaving Kaiser, Wolfe served as director of regional staff education for Northern California. An internist, Wolfe has been honored at commencement several times with awards for clinical teaching. In 1998 he received the National Golden Apple for Teaching Excellence Award from the American Medical Student Association.

Gavin Yamey, MD, MRCP, Senior Editor, PLoS Medicine; Consulting Editor, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Gavin Yamey MD, MRCP is Senior Editor at PLoS Medicine, an international open access health journal, and Consulting Editor to PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, the world's first journal devoted specifically to the neglected diseases of poverty. He studied medicine at the University of Oxford and University College London, graduating in 1994. In 1997 he became a Member of the Royal College of Physicians. After spending five years working as a physician in a variety of settings, including an AIDS hospice, a dialysis ward, and a brain injuries unit, he joined the BMJ (British Medical Journal) in 1999 as an Editorial Fellow in Medical Journalism and Editing. In 2001, he was appointed the Deputy Editor of the Western Journal of Medicine, published by the BMJ and the University of California, and in 2004, he was recruited by the Public Library of Science to launch a radical new global health journal, PLoS Medicine. He has published around 150 articles in peer-reviewed journals, with a particular focus on global health and poverty-related illnesses, and has run training workshops for developing world health journalists and editors. He has been a Consultant to the WHO and the Open University UK, an invited commentator on National Public Radio, and an editorial writer for the San Francisco Chronicle.

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

Dr. Zotti is the team leader of the Services Management, Research, and Translation Team (SMART) in the Applied Sciences Branch in the Division of Reproductive Health at the CDC. Dr. Zotti leads the team in the areas of refugee reproductive health, HIV integration in reproductive health settings, Win-Patient Flow Analysis (PFA), Smoking Attributable Mortality and Morbidity Economic Costs (SAMMEC), and the Reproductive Health Atlas.

Before Dr. Zotti became the team leader at the CDC, she was a Maternal and Child Health Epidemiologist at the CDC and assigned to the Mississippi State Department of Health in Jackson, MS for six years. She was also in academia for four years and was an Associate Professor and Chair in the Psychiatric/Mental Health & Gerontology Department at the College of Nursing, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in Little Rock, AR and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in New Orleans, LA.

Dr. Zotti has conducted numerous studies and evaluations using primary and secondary data related to factors affecting the health of women, infants and children. She has taught many courses and continuing education workshops as a faculty member for >10 years and has consistently served as faculty at the Data Use Institute for CityMatCH. She was selected as a Fellow, American Academy of Nursing.

Dr. Zotti has received numerous awards for public health service and teaching. She is the author or coauthor of >20 publications relating to factors affecting health of women, infants and children and has presented papers and posters numerous times at national scientific meetings.

Daniel Zoughbie, Founder and Executive Director, Global Micro-Clinic Project

Daniel Zoughbie is the founder and executive director of the Global Micro-Clinic Project (GMCP), an organization dedicated to providing access to health care in the developing world. Zoughbie’s research includes several published articles and reports on the Middle East, where he served as a student journalist for the University of California News Center. Additionally, he has researched the University of California’s impact on the state and national economies. Zoughbie is actively involved in serving his various communities and has participated in

or served as a director for several non-profit organizations and public service projects.

Zoughbie received his BA in Urban Studies (2006) with a minor in Middle Eastern Studies (Phi Beta Kappa and Highest Honors) from the University of California, Berkeley where he studied as both a Haas and Strauss Scholar. He has received many honors and awards; most notably, he was named recipient of the prestigious Marshall Scholarship (2006) for graduate studies at the University of Oxford.

Emmanuel dHarcourt, Senior Child Survival Technical Advisor, International Rescue Committee

Emmanuel d'Harcourt is the Senior Child Survival Technical Advisor for the International Rescue Committee. His work focuses on improving maternal and child health in sub-Saharan African countries affected by violent conflict. Dr. d'Harcourt received his Medical Degree from Johns Hopkins University and his Masters from the Harvard School of Public Health, and completed a pediatric residency at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He has lived in Senegal and Rwanda. Dr. d'Harcourt is a member of the board of directors of the CORE Group.