> Please Forward Widely
> Unite For Sight Fifth Annual International Health & Eye Care
> Conference
> Building Global Health For Today and Tomorrow
> April 12-13, 2008
> Yale University, New Haven, Connecticuthttp://www.uniteforsight.org/conference/2008
> Join 2,000 conference attendees and 130 speakers for a stimulating
> conference.
> Keynote Addresses By: Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, Dr. Sonia Sachs, Dr. Susan
> Blumenthal, and Dr. Jim Yong Kim
> Plus More Than 130 Featured Speakers
> Call For Abstracts - DEADLINE JULY 15, 2007 -http://uniteforsight.org/conference/2008/abstracts.php
> Register For Conference - EARLY BIRD RATE ($45 Students, $70 All
> Others) http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference/2008REGISTER BY JULY
> 15th TO SECURE LOWEST RATE
> Who should attend? Anyone interested in eye care, international
> health, public health, international development, medicine, social
> entrepreneurship, nonprofits, philanthropy, microfinance, bioethics,
> anthropology, health policy, advocacy, and public service.
> *Keynote Addresses*
> * Susan Blumenthal, MD, MPA, Former U.S. Assistant Surgeon
> General; Senior Advisor For Health and Medicine; Former Deputy
> Assistant Secretary for Women's Health, U.S. Department of Health and
> Human Services; Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown School
> of Medicine and Tufts University Medical Center
> * Jim Yong Kim, MD, PhD, Co-Founder, Partners in Health; Director,
> François Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights; François
> Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of
> Public Health; Chair, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical
> School; Chief of the Division of Social Medicine and Health
> Inequalities, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Former HIV/AIDS Director
> at World Health Organization
> * Jeffrey Sachs, PhD, Director of Earth Institute at Columbia
> University; Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, Professor
> of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University; Special Advisor
> to Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon
> * Sonia Sachs, MD, MPH, Health Coordinator, Millennium Villages
> *130 Featured Speakers (Listed Below Are The Speakers Confirmed Thus
> Far)*
> * Ted M. Alemayhu, Founder, Chairman and CEO, US Doctors For
> Africa
> * Greg Allgood, PhD, Director, Children's Safe Drinking Water,
> Procter & Gamble
> * R. Rand Allingham, MD, Professor of Ophthalmology; Director,
> Glaucoma Service, Duke University Eye Center
> * Jared Ament, MD, MPh, Clinical Research Fellow, Ophthalmolology
> & Corneal Surgery, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard
> Medical School; Harvard School of Public Health
> * Jane Aronson, MD, Director, International Pediatric Health
> Services; Founder and Executive Medical Director, Worldwide Orphans
> Foundation (WWO); Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Weill
> Medical College of Cornell University
> * Thomas Baah, MD, MSc, Ophthalmologist, Our Lady of Grace
> Hospital, Ghana
> * Michele Barry, MD, FACP, Professor of Medicine and Global Health
> Director, Office of International Health; Chief, General Medicine
> Firm, Yale University School of Medicine
> * Georges Benjamin, MD, Executive Director, American Public Health
> Association
> * Paul Berman, OD, FAAO, Senior Global Clinical Advisor and
> Founder, Special Olympics Lions Clubs, International Opening Eyes
> * Terry Blaschke, MD, Professor of Medicine and of Molecular
> Pharmacology (Active Emeritus), Stanford University School of Medicine
> * Neil Boothby, EdD, Professor of Clinical Population and Family
> Health; Director, Program on Forced Migration and Health, Mailman
> School of Public Health
> * Harry S. Brown, MD, Founder, Surgical Eye Expeditions (SEE)
> International
> * Donald Budenz, MD, MPH, Professor of Ophthalmology,
> Epidemiology, and Public Health, University of Miami Miller School of
> Medicine
> * Michael Cappello, MD, Professor of Pediatrics and Epidemiology
> and Public Health; Director, Program in International Child Health; Co-
> Director, International Adoption Clinic, Yale University School of
> Medicine
> * Emily Moore and Mark Carlson, PhD, Adjunct Professor, Sociology,
> San Diego State University
> * James Clarke, MD, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Crystal
> Eye Clinic, Ghana
> * Susan Day, MD, Chair and Program Director, Pediatric
> Ophthalmology and Strabismus, California Pacific Medical Center
> * Syril Dorairaj, MD, Clinical Research Fellow, Glaucoma
> Associates of New York, The New York Eye and Ear Infirmary
> * Margaret Duah-Mensah, Ophthalmic Nurse, Crystal Eye Clinic,
> Ghana
> * Andy Ellner, MD, Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative
> * Sheri Fink, MD, PhD, Kaiser Media Fellow in Global Health;
> Visiting Scientist, Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and
> Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health; Senior Fellow, Harvard
> Humanitarian Initiative
> * Susan Hall Forster, MD, Associate Clinical Professor, Department
> of Medical Studies, Department of Ophthalmology, Yale School of
> Medicine; Chief, Ophthalmology, Yale University Health Services
> * David Friedman, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology
> and International Health, Johns Hopkins University
> * Urick Gaillard, JD, Founder and Executive Director, The Batey
> Relief Alliance
> * Gabriel Garcia, MD, Professor of Medicine, Associate Dean of
> Medical School Admissions, Stanford University School of Medicine
> * Nora Groce, PhD, Associate Professor and Director, Yale/WHO
> Collaborating Centre, Global Health Division, Yale School of Public
> Health
> * Michael Gyasi, MD, Ophthalmologist and Director of the Bawku Eye
> Care Program, Ghana
> * Heskel M. Haddad, MD, Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology, New
> York Medical College
> * Leon Herndon, MD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Duke
> University Eye Center
> * Ibrahim Jabr, Interim President, International Trachoma
> Initiative
> * 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
> * Evaleen Jones, MD, Founder, President and Medical Director,
> Child Family Health International; Clinical Assistant Professor,
> Stanford University School of Medicine
> * Dean Karlan, PhD, President and Founder of Innovations for
> Poverty Action; Assistant Professor of Economics, Yale University
> * Zachary Kaufman, MPhil in International Relations; DPhil
> Candidate in International Relations, University of Oxford; JD
> Candidate, Yale University Law School
> * Kaveh Khoshnood, PhD, Assistant Professor in Public Health
> Practice, Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School
> of Public Health
> * Doug Lawrence, Vice President/General Manager, BD Medical -
> Ophthalmic Systems
> * Fiona Macaulay, President, Making Cents International
> * Carolyn Makinson, PhD, Executive Director, Women's Commission
> for Refugee Women and Children
> * Tshepo Mbalambi, BSc, Med Sci, MBcHB Candidate, University of
> Ghana School of Medicine
> * John McGoldrick, Senior Vice President, International AIDS
> Vaccine Initiative (IAVI)
> * Christine Melton, MD, MS, Friends of Aravind Association
> * Mini Murthy, MD, MPH, MS, Assistant Professor, Department of
> Behavioral Science and Community Health, Program Director Global
> Health, New York Medical College School of Public Health
> * Neal Nathanson, MD, Associate Dean, Global Health Programs,
> University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
> * Thomas Novotny, MD, MPH, Director of International Programs;
> Professor in Residence, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCSF School of
> Medicine
> * Edward O'Neil Jr, MD, Founder, Omni Med; Author, Awakening
> Hippocrates: Primer on Health, Poverty, and Global Service, and A
> Practical Guide to Global Health Service
> * Cliff OCallahan, MD, PhD, Pediatric Faculty, Middlesex Hospital
> Family Practice Program; Chair, AAP Section on International Child
> Health
> * Adeyemi Oshodi, PATH
> * Elijah Paintsil, MD, Associate Research Scientist, Department of
> Pediatrics, Yale School of Medicine
> * Matthew Paul, MD, Danbury Eye Physicians and Surgeons
> * Steven C. Phillips, MD, MPH, Medical Director, Global Issues and
> Projects, Exxon Mobil Corporation
> * Louis Pizzarello, MD, MPH, Secretary General, International
> Agency for the Prevention of Blindness
> * Thomas Quinn, MD, Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Global
> Health
> * Nathan Radcliffe, MD, Glaucoma Service at New York Eye & Ear
> Infirmary
> * Ian Rawson, MD, CEO/Directeur General, Hopital Albert Schweitzer
> Haiti
> * William Reese, President and CEO, International Youth Foundation
> * Ilya Rozenbuam, MD, GANY Glaucoma Fellow, New York Eye and Ear
> Institute
> * Leonard Rubenstein, Executive Director, Physicians for Human
> Rights
> * Jennifer Ruger, PhD, MSc, Assistant Professor, Division of
> Global Health, Yale School of Public Health; Co-Director of the Yale/
> World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Health
> Promotion, Policy and Research; Interdisciplinary Research Methods
> Core Investigator, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS
> * Lisa Russell, MPH, Filmmaker
> * Sarwat Salim, MD, Ophthalmologist
> * Sarang Samal, Kalinga Eye Hospital, Orissa, India
> * Georgia Sambunaris, MA
> * Werner Schultink, MD, Chief Child Development and Nutrition,
> UNICEF
> * Chirag Shah, MD, Chief Resident, Wills Eye Hospital
> * Bruce Shields, MD, Professor of Ophthalmology, Chairman
> Emeritus, Department of Ophthalmology, Yale University School of
> Medicine
> * Satyajit Sinha, MBBS, Ophthalmologist, AB Eye Institute, Patna,
> India
> * D. Scott Smith, MD, MSc, DTM&H, Chief of Infectious Disease and
> Geographic Medicine, Kaiser Redwood City Hospital
> * Eliot Sorel, MD, D.L.F.A.P.A. Global Health, Health Services
> Management, and Leadership, The George Washington University School of
> Public Health; Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences School of Medicine,
> GWU; Chairman, Founder, Conflict Management Section WPA
> * Kari Stoever, Senior Program Officer, Neglected Tropical
> Diseases, Sabin Vaccine Institute
> * Glenn Strauss, MD, Vice President of International Health Care
> and Programs, Mercy Ships, Int'l
> * Robert Farris Thompson, PhD, Col. John Trumbull Professor of the
> History of Art, Yale University
> * Jamie Lachman and Tim Cunningham, Clowns Without Borders
> * James C. Tsai, MD, Chair, Department of Ophthalmologist, Yale
> University School of Medicine
> * Satya Verma, OD, FAAO, Director, Community Eye Care,
> Pennsylvania College of Optometry
> * Seth Wanye, MD, Ophthalmologist, Eye Clinic of Tamale Teaching
> Hospital, Ghana
> * Gavin Yamey, MD, MRCP, Senior Editor, PLoS Medicine; Consulting
> Editor, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

> For your information:
> In fact papers have been submitted -- AND REJECTED -- concerning
> the second-opinion, that a negative refractive STATE of
> the fundamental eye can be prevented.
> Dr. Maurice Brumer did exactly that, but since his
> concept was HATED, his analysis was rejected.
> Here is part of his review. I doubt that these people
> have the GUTS to begin a discussion along these
> lines.
> Been there -- done that.

> For your information:
> In fact papers have been submitted -- AND REJECTED -- concerning
> the second-opinion, that a negative refractive STATE of
> the fundamental eye can be prevented.
> Dr. Maurice Brumer did exactly that, but since his
> concept was HATED, his analysis was rejected.
> Here is part of his review. I doubt that these people
> have the GUTS to begin a discussion along these
> lines.
> Been there -- done that.
> +++++++++
> A COURAGEOUS EYE DOCTOR DOCUMENTS THE SECONDARY EFFECT OF USING A
> NEGATIVE LENS
> EYESTRAIN - ITS CAUSES, CONSEQUENCES AND TREATMENT
> By Dr. Maurice Brumer, Frankston, 3199, Australia
> . . . A succession of practicing optometrists have followed Fournet [a
> pioneer in the use of the plus lens] to this day, all convinced of
> this major shortcoming [use of a negative lens] in eye care. They have
> all been successfully ignored or treated as cranks and heretics, and
> the issue has remained at this level for 90 years. The clarion cry of
> the eye care professions has been "show us proof of the relationship
> of eyestrain and eye disease". I will now demonstrate that no shortage
> of this proof exists.
> At the 1973 annual meeting of the American Academy of Optometry, a
> paper entitled, "Bifocal Control of Myopia", was presented by Francis
> Young, Director of the Primate Research Center at Washington State
> University, and Kenneth Oakley, an ophthalmologist from Bend, Oregon.
> Their study found that the effects of properly fitted bifocals (eye
> strain reducing glasses) on young myopes are to drop the rate of
> progression of this condition from an average of about one half a
> diopter per year to about on fortieth of a diopter per year. This
> study involved control and experimental subjects who were matched for
> age, sex, initial refractive error and duration of wearing bifocals so
> that most of the possible causes of failure to achieve results with
> bifocals were controlled.
> THE BIFOCAL (PLUS LENS) STUDY
> There was a significant number of subjects, 226 in the bifocal group
> and 192 in the control group, to assure that the results were
> consistent and effective over time. The effect of the bifocal was
> uniformly to reduce the rate of progression even in children who had
> already achieved as much as 4 or 5 diopters of myopia before they were
> fitted with bifocals. In other words, the control group moved into
> myopia at a rate 20 times faster than the bifocal (plus lens) group.
> The implications of such results are obvious and sinister when it is
> considered that myopia is the third largest cause of blindness in
> western society.
> SERIOUS COMPLICATIONS DEVELOP FROM USING A MINUS LENS
> The visual disability in high myopia is usually considerable. I am
> including this description of the condition as felt by its victims so
> that you may put yourself in their situation:
> Apart from the visual incapacity, the high myope is not usually
> comfortable in the use of his eyes. When corrected, the small, sharply
> defined and bright images are annoying; much use of the eyes brings
> about a feeling of strain and fatigue. The degenerated and liquefied
> vitreous gives rise to a multitude of "muscae volitantes" and floating
> opacities, and these, throwing abnormally large images upon the retina
> owing to its backward displacement, cause a great deal of distress and
> anxiety to the patient although their actual significance is small.
> Most of these patients are naturally anxious. Their disability is
> obvious and may have excited sympathy. The memory of admonitions to
> care for the eyes lingers into adult life. Thus matters tend to
> progress slowly and relentlessly, the patient all the while never
> using his eyes with comfort or without anxiety until finally no useful
> vision may remain or until the occurrence of a sudden calamity such as
> a gross macular lesion, a hemorrhage of a retinal detachment brings
> about a more dramatic crisis. (I thank Sir Stewart Duke-Elder for this
> description).
> The complications of myopia are numerous and grave, frequently
> resulting in blindness. The degenerative changes appear typically in
> adult life after the myopia has been fully established for some
> years.
> The complications are:
> Choroidal thrombosis and hemorrhage.
> Vitreous opacity, always present in some degree in high myopia, this
> condition may suddenly increase to become a serious complication.
> Retinal detachment is the most dreaded and one of the most common
> complications of myopia, occurring with considerable frequency in all
> degrees of the defect but showing a progressively greater tendency,
> the higher the myopia.
> Simple glaucoma is a further complication of high myopia, occurring
> in the higher degrees after mid-life.
> THESE PROBLEMS COULD HAVE BEEN PREVENTED
> Few of these people faced with the prospect of blindness in old age
> realize that their problems actually began in childhood when they were
> fitted with their first pair of corrective [negative] lenses by
> someone who was probably unconcerned about the tragic, long-term
> results of that action. Few of these people realize how their
> situation became more precarious each time their glasses were
> strengthened and nothing was said about prevention. Now, when it is
> too late for prevention, they find themselves in the hands of surgeons
> who are making their living from someone else's mistakes by trying to
> patch up steadily deteriorating retinas. The patient has become a
> lifelong victim of ignorance and exploitation.
> THE EYE CHANGES FROM A POSITIVE STATE TO A NEGATIVE STATE AS A RESULT
> OF CLOSE WORK
> The cause of myopia is further clearly indicated in a study of 1200
> Eskimos in Barrow, Alaska, published in the American Journal of
> Optometry in September, 1969, which showed that in one generation of
> the Eskimo population had moved from no myopia to approximately 65%
> myopia among the offspring, and that neither the grandparents nor
> parents over 40 had any myopia.
> Thus the first generation between grandparents and parents was similar
> in that myopia was nonexistent, but in the second generation between
> the parents and their children, suddenly myopia occurs in a
> surprisingly high number of children. As a matter of fact, of 53
> offspring who were in their early 20's, 88% had myopia. Such a sudden
> and great degree of change cannot readily be accounted for on the
> basis of heredity, especially when there has been no identifiable
> force which could have brought about this obviously considerable
> mutation in the genetic composition of the offspring.
> The obvious difference between the parents and the children is the
> amount of near work which is currently being done by the children.
> About the time of the second World War, the white man intruded into
> their lives, requiring the development of education among a population
> which was uneducated and illiterate. The Eskimo has become an avid
> reader because of his environment. While he spends a great deal of
> time out-of-doors in the warmer, daylight summer months, he spends
> relatively little time out- of-doors in the cold, dark winter months.
> A MASSIVE BODY OF EVIDENCE SHOWS THAT THE EYE CHANGES ITS FOCAL STATE
> TO MATCH ITS VISUAL ENVIRONMENT
> In presenting these studies, I would emphasize that these represent
> only a small (even if spectacular) part of the evidence available
> today which demonstrates the blindness and suffering caused by present-
> day eye care. While continuing to ignore a massive body of evidence,
> the eye care professions continue to ask to be shown proof that myopia
> results from excessive close work and that the prescription of
> corrective lenses causes the myopia to increase more rapidly that it
> otherwise should. It is assumed from the start that the burden of
> proof is on us and that we are expected to raise money and conduct
> endless studies that will somehow convince everyone that we are right.
> In many cases, this is like trying to convince a tobacco company
> executive that smoking causes lung cancer. No amount of testing will
> convince those people who prefer to believe what pleases them most or
> what is more lucrative to them. . . .
> [Dr. Brumer reviewed an exchange of letters with a Dr. Lender (a
> university optometrist) concerning disagreement about the fundamental
> behavior characteristic of the eye under experimental test
> conditions.]
> . . . These letters represent a desperate attempt to cover up a tragic
> and horrible situation. They mislead the public and, significantly,
> the parliament of my country. They have been unsuccessful in their
> purpose, however, and the question now lies on notice in the
> parliament in Canberra to the Minister of Health for Dr. Klugman
> (opposition spokesman for health) asking him to appoint an inquiry
> into the matters I have raised.
> THE EYE PROFESSION RESISTS CHANGE -- TO YOUR DETRIMENT
> The eye care professions have resisted change irrationally and
> fearfully, unwilling to admit that what has gone on before [the use of
> a negative lens] has been wrong and harmful, and by doing so they have
> unleashed on the public they serve a cataract of horror. This
> continued situation is a tragedy for the public and a disgrace for
> optometry. While it is understandable that optometrists will not find
> it easy to admit that what they have been doing is wrong and harmful,
> especially for those academic university optometrists responsible for
> the education of our graduates, to preserve the current horrors to
> protect our professional prestige and privilege is an abdication of
> our responsibilities, ethics and morality. I can make no apology for
> causing embarrassment to my professional colleagues. The interests of
> the public are paramount and must be served. The purpose of this paper
> is to direct the future to end the disgrace of the past.
> REMARKS ON DR. MAURICE BRUMER'S PAPER
> Dr. Brumer had previously been denied permission to present his paper
> at the August, 1977 Australian and New Zealand Association for the
> Advancement of Science (ANZAAS) Congress because it was too critical
> of the prevailing method of eye care. The above paper is of interest
> because of Dr. ...
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> Please Forward Widely
> Unite For Sight Fifth Annual International Health & Eye Care
> Conference
> Building Global Health For Today and Tomorrow
> April 12-13, 2008
> Yale University, New Haven, Connecticuthttp://www.uniteforsight.org/conference/2008
> Join 2,000 conference attendees and 130 speakers for a stimulating
> conference.
> Keynote Addresses By: Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, Dr. Sonia Sachs, Dr. Susan
> Blumenthal, and Dr. Jim Yong Kim
> Plus More Than 130 Featured Speakers
> Call For Abstracts - DEADLINE JULY 15, 2007 -http://uniteforsight.org/conference/2008/abstracts.php
> Register For Conference - EARLY BIRD RATE ($45 Students, $70 All
> Others) http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference/2008REGISTER BY JULY
> 15th TO SECURE LOWEST RATE
> Who should attend? Anyone interested in eye care, international
> health, public health, international development, medicine, social
> entrepreneurship, nonprofits, philanthropy, microfinance, bioethics,
> anthropology, health policy, advocacy, and public service.
> *Keynote Addresses*
> * Susan Blumenthal, MD, MPA, Former U.S. Assistant Surgeon
> General; Senior Advisor For Health and Medicine; Former Deputy
> Assistant Secretary for Women's Health, U.S. Department of Health and
> Human Services; Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown School
> of Medicine and Tufts University Medical Center
> * Jim Yong Kim, MD, PhD, Co-Founder, Partners in Health; Director,
> François Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights; François
> Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of
> Public Health; Chair, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical
> School; Chief of the Division of Social Medicine and Health
> Inequalities, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Former HIV/AIDS Director
> at World Health Organization
> * Jeffrey Sachs, PhD, Director of Earth Institute at Columbia
> University; Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, Professor
> of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University; Special Advisor
> to Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon
> * Sonia Sachs, MD, MPH, Health Coordinator, Millennium Villages
> *130 Featured Speakers (Listed Below Are The Speakers Confirmed Thus
> Far)*
> * Ted M. Alemayhu, Founder, Chairman and CEO, US Doctors For
> Africa
> * Greg Allgood, PhD, Director, Children's Safe Drinking Water,
> Procter & Gamble
> * R. Rand Allingham, MD, Professor of Ophthalmology; Director,
> Glaucoma Service, Duke University Eye Center
> * Jared Ament, MD, MPh, Clinical Research Fellow, Ophthalmolology
> & Corneal Surgery, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard
> Medical School; Harvard School of Public Health
> * Jane Aronson, MD, Director, International Pediatric Health
> Services; Founder and Executive Medical Director, Worldwide Orphans
> Foundation (WWO); Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Weill
> Medical College of Cornell University
> * Thomas Baah, MD, MSc, Ophthalmologist, Our Lady of Grace
> Hospital, Ghana
> * Michele Barry, MD, FACP, Professor of Medicine and Global Health
> Director, Office of International Health; Chief, General Medicine
> Firm, Yale University School of Medicine
> * Georges Benjamin, MD, Executive Director, American Public Health
> Association
> * Paul Berman, OD, FAAO, Senior Global Clinical Advisor and
> Founder, Special Olympics Lions Clubs, International Opening Eyes
> * Terry Blaschke, MD, Professor of Medicine and of Molecular
> Pharmacology (Active Emeritus), Stanford University School of Medicine
> * Neil Boothby, EdD, Professor of Clinical Population and Family
> Health; Director, Program on Forced Migration and Health, Mailman
> School of Public Health
> * Harry S. Brown, MD, Founder, Surgical Eye Expeditions (SEE)
> International
> * Donald Budenz, MD, MPH, Professor of Ophthalmology,
> Epidemiology, and Public Health, University of Miami Miller School of
> Medicine
> * Michael Cappello, MD, Professor of Pediatrics and Epidemiology
> and Public Health; Director, Program in International Child Health; Co-
> Director, International Adoption Clinic, Yale University School of
> Medicine
> * Emily Moore and Mark Carlson, PhD, Adjunct Professor, Sociology,
> San Diego State University
> * James Clarke, MD, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Crystal
> Eye Clinic, Ghana
> * Susan Day, MD, Chair and Program Director, Pediatric
> Ophthalmology and Strabismus, California Pacific Medical Center
> * Syril Dorairaj, MD, Clinical Research Fellow, Glaucoma
> Associates of New York, The New York Eye and Ear Infirmary
> * Margaret Duah-Mensah, Ophthalmic Nurse, Crystal Eye Clinic,
> Ghana
> * Andy Ellner, MD, Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative
> * Sheri Fink, MD, PhD, Kaiser Media Fellow in Global Health;
> Visiting Scientist, Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and
> Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health; Senior Fellow, Harvard
> Humanitarian Initiative
> * Susan Hall Forster, MD, Associate Clinical Professor, Department
> of Medical Studies, Department of Ophthalmology, Yale School of
> Medicine; Chief, Ophthalmology, Yale University Health Services
> * David Friedman, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology
> and International Health, Johns Hopkins University
> * Urick Gaillard, JD, Founder and Executive Director, The Batey
> Relief Alliance
> * Gabriel Garcia, MD, Professor of Medicine, Associate Dean of
> Medical School Admissions, Stanford University School of Medicine
> * Nora Groce, PhD, Associate Professor and Director, Yale/WHO
> Collaborating Centre, Global Health Division, Yale School of Public
> Health
> * Michael Gyasi, MD, Ophthalmologist and Director of the Bawku Eye
> Care Program, Ghana
> * Heskel M. Haddad, MD, Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology, New
> York Medical College
> * Leon Herndon, MD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Duke
> University Eye Center
> * Ibrahim Jabr, Interim President, International Trachoma
> Initiative
> * 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
> * Evaleen Jones, MD, Founder, President and Medical Director,
> Child Family Health International; Clinical Assistant Professor,
> Stanford University School of Medicine
> * Dean Karlan, PhD, President and Founder of Innovations for
> Poverty Action; Assistant Professor of Economics, Yale University
> * Zachary Kaufman, MPhil in International Relations; DPhil
> Candidate in International Relations, University of Oxford; JD
> Candidate, Yale University Law School
> * Kaveh Khoshnood, PhD, Assistant Professor in Public Health
> Practice, Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School
> of Public Health
> * Doug Lawrence, Vice President/General Manager, BD Medical -
> Ophthalmic Systems
> * Fiona Macaulay, President, Making Cents International
> * Carolyn Makinson, PhD, Executive Director, Women's Commission
> for Refugee Women and Children
> * Tshepo Mbalambi, BSc, Med Sci, MBcHB Candidate, University of
> Ghana School of Medicine
> * John McGoldrick, Senior Vice President, International AIDS
> Vaccine Initiative (IAVI)
> * Christine Melton, MD, MS, Friends of Aravind Association
> * Mini Murthy, MD, MPH, MS, Assistant Professor, Department of
> Behavioral Science and Community Health, Program Director Global
> Health, New York Medical College School of Public Health
> * Neal Nathanson, MD, Associate Dean, Global Health Programs,
> University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
> * Thomas Novotny, MD, MPH, Director of International Programs;
> Professor in Residence, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCSF School of
> Medicine
> * Edward O'Neil Jr, MD, Founder, Omni Med; Author, Awakening
> Hippocrates: Primer on Health, Poverty, and Global Service, and A
> Practical Guide to Global Health Service
> * Cliff OCallahan, MD, PhD, Pediatric Faculty, Middlesex Hospital
> Family Practice Program; Chair, AAP Section on International Child
> Health
> * Adeyemi Oshodi, PATH
> * Elijah Paintsil, MD, Associate Research Scientist, Department of
> Pediatrics, Yale School of Medicine
> * Matthew Paul, MD, Danbury Eye Physicians and Surgeons
> * Steven C. Phillips, MD, MPH, Medical Director, Global Issues and
> Projects, Exxon Mobil Corporation
> * Louis Pizzarello, MD, MPH, Secretary General, International
> Agency for the Prevention of Blindness
> * Thomas Quinn, MD, Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Global
> Health
> * Nathan Radcliffe, MD, Glaucoma Service at New York Eye & Ear
> Infirmary
> * Ian Rawson, MD, CEO/Directeur General, Hopital Albert Schweitzer
> Haiti
> * William Reese, President and CEO, International Youth Foundation
> * Ilya Rozenbuam, MD, GANY Glaucoma Fellow, New York Eye and Ear
> Institute
> * Leonard Rubenstein, Executive Director, Physicians for Human
> Rights
> * Jennifer Ruger, PhD, MSc, Assistant Professor, Division of
> Global Health, Yale School of Public Health; Co-Director of the Yale/
> World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Health
> Promotion, Policy and Research; Interdisciplinary Research Methods
> Core Investigator, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS
> * Lisa Russell, MPH, Filmmaker
> * Sarwat Salim, MD, Ophthalmologist
> * Sarang Samal, Kalinga Eye Hospital, Orissa, India
> * Georgia Sambunaris, MA
> * Werner Schultink, MD, Chief Child Development and Nutrition,
> UNICEF
> * Chirag Shah, MD, Chief Resident, Wills Eye Hospital
> * Bruce Shields, MD, Professor of Ophthalmology, Chairman
> Emeritus, Department of Ophthalmology, Yale University School of
> Medicine
> * Satyajit Sinha, MBBS, Ophthalmologist, AB Eye Institute, Patna,
> India
> * D. Scott Smith, MD, MSc, DTM&H, Chief of Infectious Disease and
> Geographic Medicine, Kaiser Redwood City Hospital
> * Eliot Sorel, MD, D.L.F.A.P.A. Global Health, Health Services
> Management, and Leadership, The George Washington University School of
> Public Health; Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences School of Medicine,
> GWU; Chairman, Founder, Conflict Management Section WPA
> * Kari Stoever, Senior Program Officer, Neglected Tropical
> Diseases, Sabin Vaccine Institute
> * Glenn Strauss, MD, Vice President of International Health Care
> and Programs, Mercy Ships, Int'l
> * Robert Farris Thompson, PhD, Col. John Trumbull Professor of the
> History of Art, Yale University
> * Jamie Lachman and Tim Cunningham, Clowns Without Borders
> * James C. Tsai, MD, Chair, Department of Ophthalmologist, Yale
> University School of Medicine
> * Satya Verma, OD, FAAO, Director, Community Eye Care,
> Pennsylvania College of Optometry
> * Seth Wanye, MD, Ophthalmologist, Eye Clinic of Tamale Teaching
> Hospital, Ghana
> * Gavin Yamey, MD, MRCP, Senior Editor, PLoS Medicine; Consulting
> Editor, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

> Please Forward Widely
> Unite For Sight Fifth Annual International Health & Eye Care
> Conference
> Building Global Health For Today and Tomorrow
> April 12-13, 2008
> Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
> http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference/2008