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, Yaound�, 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 Tom�s 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. Baldiz�n 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. Baldiz�n 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. Baldiz�n 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 d