Unite For Sight Conference - New York City

[Jennifer Staple]

Dear all,

This Conference in New York City may be of interest to many of you on this 
listserve.

Sincerely,
Jennifer Staple

Unite For Sight Conference
NYU School of Medicine
New York City
April 24, 2004
9 am - 5 pm

Unite For Sight is holding a conference entitled "Perspectives: Eyes on 
Public Health" on April 24, 2004 at NYU School of Medicine in New York 
City.  World renowned speakers include Dr. H. Jack Geiger, Dr. Shachar 
Tauber, Dr. Louis Pizzarello, President or Director of International 
Trachoma Initiative, and others.

If you are interested in attending the conference, reserve your seat by 
registering for the conference at our website. Early Bird Registration 
Deadline is April 1.  http://www.uniteforsight.org/2004_annual_conference.shtml

"The Power of Student Activism"
 H. Jack Geiger, MD, H. Jack Geiger, MD, Arthur C. Logan Professor 
Emeritus of Community Medicine, City University of New York Medical School 

Dr. Geiger's professional career has been focused on problems of health 
and poverty, and he has been a champion of health and human rights over 
the past five decades. He was a founding member and Past President of 
Physicians for Social Responsibility, the U.S. affiliate of International 
Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, which received the Nobel 
Prize for Peace in 1985.  He is also a founding member and Past President 
of Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), which shared in the Nobel Prize for 
Peace in 1998.  He also initiated the community health center model in the 
US and was a leader in the development of the national health center 
network of more than 800 urban, rural, and migrant centers currently 
serving nine million low-income patients.  From 1965-71, he was 
Co-Director and then Director of the first urban and first rural health 
centers in the U.S., at Columbia Point, Boston, and Mound Bayou, 
Mississippi.

"Vision 2020: The Right to Sight, a Global Initiative"
  Dr. Louis Pizzarello, MD, Chair of the North American Region of the 
International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB). 
Dr. Pizzarello is a recognized expert in the fields of public health and 
ophthalmology. He has worked in blindness prevention programs in 40 
countries. His particular interest has been in cataract programs, 
nutritional and childhood blindness, and the prevention of eye injuries. 
He has authored numerous scientific papers in the field and has served on 
a number of advisory boards and committees. He has been named a 
Distinguished Citizen by Southampton College and has received the Honor 
Award of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and the Spirit of Helen 
Keller Award from Helen Keller Worldwide.  He holds an undergraduate 
degree from Colgate University, a medical degree from the University of 
Virginia and a masters degree in public health from Harvard. He has 
practiced ophthalmology for the past 25 years in Southampton, NY, and is 
currently associate clinical professor of ophthalmology and public health 
at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University as well 
as adjunct assistant professor of preventive medicine at SUNY/Stony Brook.

"Advances in Corneal Transplantation"
  Dr. Shachar Tauber, MD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Yale 
University School of Medicine and Director of Yale's Cornea and Refractive 
Surgery Service
Dr. Tauber, who is on Unite For Sight's Executive Board of Advisors, is a 
leader in refractive surgery.  He participated in clinical research 
supporting the FDA approval of LASIK for correction of hyperopia.  He was 
Visiting Fellow in advanced techniques in refractive surgery in Venezuela, 
and served as an observational fellow in cornea and external disease as 
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Hospital.  Dr. Tauber was invited to educate 
ophthalmologists at the 1998 Global Ophthalmology Conference in China and 
at Tamil Nadu Medical University in India in 1999.

  President or Director of International Trachoma Initiative
The International Trachoma Initiative (ITI) is dedicated to the 
elimination of blinding trachoma, the world's leading cause of preventable 
blindness.  ITI seeks to achieve global elimination of blinding trachoma 
by putting into action the SAFE strategy, applied research and program 
evaluation, and communications and advocacy.

  Ms. Rosemary Janiszewski, Deputy Director, Office of Communication, 
Health Education and Public Liason; Director, National Eye Institute 
Health Education Program, NIH.
Ms. Janiszewski has worked in the health education field for more than 20 
years at both the state and federal level. Since 1989, she has directed 
NEI health education activities, including the National Eye Health 
Education Program, a program to prevent vision loss through public and 
professional education programs. Before joining the NEI , Ms. Janiszewski 
was the coordinator for the Cancer Information Service in Illinois. She 
also served as a program coordinator at the American Heart Association of 
Wisconsin. She received her MS in community health education at the 
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. She is a Certified Health Education 
Specialist (CHES).

  Joe LaMountain, Vice President, Strategic Communications of Vision 
Council of America
Mr. LaMountain leads advocacy to improve eye health care for children. 
Previously he worked for the American Diabetes Association as the National 
Director of Advocacy, where he helped to get 37 state laws passed that 
required health insurance plans to cover diabetes supplies and education 
as a basic benefit. He helped to enact a similar law benefiting senior 
Medicare diabetes patients.

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