Healthcare

Sony Pictures Entertainment has announced that APB speakers Mayim Bialik and Ken Jennings will become permanent hosts for the syndicated quiz show Jeopardy! The pair have been filling in temporarily since the death of longtime host Alex Trebek in November 2020 and will continue splitting their hosting duties.  

After a three-year hiatus, Nora McInerny, bestselling author, “Terrible Thanks for Asking” podcast host and APB speaker is hitting the road. Starting Oct. 7, McInerny will begin her Terrible, Thanks for Asking tour in San Francisco. Other tour dates include Seattle; Portland, Ore.; Los Angeles; Philadelphia; Brooklyn, N.Y.; Washington, D.C.; Boston; Toronto; Chicago; and St. Paul, Minn. Find tickets here.

After nearly 50 years of living in the Castro in San Francisco, Author and LGBTQ Activist Cleve Jones is moving from his beloved neighborhood. And that, according to a recent article in The New York Times, is happening across the country as “Gayborhoods” are losing LGBTQ residents. Jones was prominently featured in the article, which focused on why so many are choosing to move from their “gayborhoods.” Many are looking for less expensive areas as neighborhoods become gentrified, while others are finding greener pastures with more amenities in communities that are more accepting than in the past. 

APB speaker Kelly Corrigan, host of PBS’ hit series Tell Me More With Kelly Corrigan was recently featured in USA Today. The article focuses on Corrigan’s views on vulnerability to talking to Melinda French Gates about everything but her divorce to Corrigan’s complete and total love of learning.  

APB speaker and famed Mayo Clinic neurosurgeon Dr. Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa—affectionally known as Dr. Q—was recently interviewed by José Díaz-Balart on the “NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt” podcast. Dr. Q spoke with Díaz-Balart about his impoverished childhood in a small village near Mexicali, Mexico, and how he went from a migrant worker picking tomatoes in Central California to Harvard Medical School to neurosurgeon.

For Cleve Jones, author and longtime renowned LGBTQ activist, the first time he realized his life’s purpose was the day he saw Harvey Milk’s corpse lying on the floor of San Francisco’s City Hall. Milk, a gay rights pioneer and city supervisor, was shot and killed in the City by the Bay in 1978. Since then, Jones has given a voice to the voiceless, organized the struggling and disenfranchised and inspired activists through his amazing work. 

Season three of Tell Me More With Kelly Corrigan has begun airing on PBS stations across the country. The series brings together a wide array of guests and touches on topics that truly matter in today’s climate, according to PBS. In each one-hour episode, Corrigan explores her guests' universal humanity and passions. This season, Corrigan, who is an exclusive APB speaker, talks with world-class contributors, like Samantha Power, Judd Apatow, Kevin Young and Anna Deavere Smith. She also interviews her old friend Kate Bowler, new friends Robin Roberts and Lilly Singh, and good Samaritans Richard Lui, Father Greg Boyle and Anthony Ray Hinton.  

Limbitless Solutions, a company co-founded by APB speaker Dr. Albert Manero, was recently featured in an article in Today’s Medical Developments. The non-profit organization headquartered at the University of Central Florida (UCF) in Orlando specializes in creating and donating personalized, creative and expressive 3D-printed bionic arms for children. The article focused on the growth of the company, which was started by UCF students in 2014. Because of supply chain issues, Limbitless Solutions has purchased additional machinery to manufacture parts in-house—allowing it to do so much more. 

Patient Safety Awareness Week, observed every March, encourages all of us to learn more about healthcare safety. These speakers below inspire action to improve the safety of the healthcare system—for both the patients and the workforce. Join APB in celebrating patient safety and the ongoing efforts to continuously improve the quality and safety of the patient care experience.

What happens when you have an unidentifiable illness that leaves doctors baffled and with no idea how to help? If you are APB speaker Doug Lindsay, you figure out what’s wrong and invent a surgery to cure yourself.