Health & Wellness
Cancer
Award-Winning Actress & Activist
Best known for her role as "Gabrielle Solis" on the ABC megahit Desperate Housewives, Eva Longoria is a gifted actress & dedicated activist who works to raise ovarian cancer awareness. She is also founder... |
Actress & Activist
Maria Bello is an internationally renowned actor and women's rights activist. She is co-founder of We Advance, a women's movement and NGO based in Cite Soleil, Haiti. |
Author, Actress & Wife of Patrick Swayze
Patrick Swayze's wife of 34 years, Niemi Swayze shared her husband's artistic aptitude on stage and on screen and cared for him as he battled pancreatic cancer. |
Screenwriter & Cancer Survivor
Joe Eszterhas is one of the most successful screenwriters in Hollywood history. Over the past 35 years he has penned the scripts for such films as Basic Instinct, Flashdance & Showgirls. |
Author & Breast Cancer Survivor
In her best-selling memoir, The Middle Place, speaker Kelly Corrigan recounts how she cared for her cancer-afflicted father while battling breast cancer herself. |
Actress & Cancer Survivor
A celebrity speaker and actress who became a household name starring in The Nanny, the series she invented and developed from "pitch" to production, Drescher is a larger than life personality that reflects her... |
Legendary NFL Coach & Motivator
Considered by many to be the greatest football coach ever, speaker Don Shula co-authored Everyone's a Coach and shares proven philosophies on teamwork and success. |
Author of Passages
Author of the landmark book Passages, speaker Gail Sheehy is a renowned life cycle expert who covers everything from a healthy sex life to the demands of caregiving. |
16th US Surgeon General
A former US Surgeon General who created the first government-released report on obesity, speaker David Satcher works to eliminate racial disparities in healthcare. |
Motivator & Mother of Lance Armstrong
Linda Armstrong Kelly is the author of No Mountain High Enough, which chronicles her life living in poverty with her son, Lance Armstrong. |
17th Surgeon General & Professor
The 17th US Surgeon General, Dr. Richard Carmona overcame adversity in early life to become a decorated Green Beret in Vietnam. He advocates for a healthy lifestyle. |
Academy Award-Winning Actress & Cancer Survivor
Kathy Bates is an Oscar-winning actress for her role in 1990's Misery. Diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2003, she is now in remission. |
Award-Winning Journalist & Television Producer
In the eighteen years since her diagnosis, Ellerbee has been appearing before sell-out audiences all over the country to tell her story about living with breast cancer. An outspoken journalist, award-winning... |
US Health Policy Advisor
An advisor and frequent media contributor, speaker Michael Samuelson speaks on leadership, health promotion, patient experience, health policy and disease prevention. |
Grammy-Winning Singer
A soulful maven, Labelle has earned her place in Grammy-winning music royalty with her powerful high octave voice. She is also a New York Times best-selling author, television star, celebrity speaker and... |
Actor, Desperate Housewives
A Desperate Housewives star, speaker Ricardo Antonio Chavira is San Antonio's honorary spokesman for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. |
Correspondent, Dateline NBC & Co-Anchor, The Today Show
Hoda Kotb was named co-anchor of the fourth hour of The Today Show in August 2007. She has also been a Dateline NBC correspondent since April 1998 and the host of the weekly syndicated series Your... |
Founders of The Cancer Crusade
After successfully battling cancer, Roger and Kathy Cawthon founded The Cancer Crusade to encourage patients to fight the disease with hope and humor. |
Actress & Cancer Warrior
Known from Welcome Back Kotter, speaker Marcia Strassman has been living with stage IV metastatic breast cancer since 2007. She urges others to never give up. |
Author / Breast Cancer Survivor
Geralyn Lucas was only 27 when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Shaking the foundations of her world, she was faced with the harrowing decision of whether or not to undergo a mastectomy. She shares her... |
