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Speakers on Cancer
American Program Bureau (APB) offers a wide range of speakers who have been affected by cancer in one capacity or another. Whether survivors who share their experience and inspire others, celebrities who create awareness or medical experts who translate medical knowledge into real life understanding, APB’s cancer speakers help educate audiences about the disease.
Kelly Corrigan
The New York Times best-selling author of The Middle Place and Lift, Corrigan has a way of connecting with readers and audiences alike. Sharing life experiences from battling breast cancer at the young age of 36, to learning of her father's late-stage cancer, to the emotional struggles and personal ...
Fran Drescher
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 substantial talent. Previously diagnosed with cancer and given a clean bill of health, she has written ...
Don Shula
Hall of Famer, Shula is considered by many to be the greatest coach ever to step on a playing field. Co-author of Everyone's a Coach, he helps audiences learn his extremely effective philosophies on success, teamwork, and achievement.
Gail Sheehy
As the best-selling author of over a dozen books, including Passages, Gail Sheehy has rocked the culture and changed the way millions of women and men look at the stages of their lives. A Library of Congress survey named Passages one of the ten most influential books of our time. In her latest book, ...
David Satcher
As the 16th Surgeon General, Dr. Satcher encouraged public debate about issues including mental health, bioterrorism, sex education, AIDS, tobacco, obesity, and balancing the community healthcare system. As the force behind creating Healthy People 2010, the nation's health agenda, he works to eliminate racial disparities ...
Linda Armstrong Kelly
Linda Armstrong Kelly’s life story is captivating audiences everywhere. Her son, seven-time Tour de France Champion Lance Armstrong, credits her as the unsung hero who assisted him in reaching his spectacular cycling victories – and in his triumph over cancer.
Richard Carmona
As the 17th Surgeon General, Dr. Carmona developed comprehensive knowledge of the environmental influences on healthy living today. He offers a close look at the epidemic of asthma in young children as well as other issues directly related to the state of our environment and how we can work towards not only a healthy body, ...
Linda Ellerbee
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 television producer, and best-selling author, she is a woman of spirit and determination who has enlightened and ...
Michael Samuelson
Over the past thirty-five years -- from Boston to Brussels, London to Little Rock, Peoria to Paris ,and Harrisburg to Havana, Cuba -- Michael Samuelson has lectured on leadership, health promotion, health policy, disease prevention, and the dynamics of behavior change.
Patti LaBelle
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 healthcare advocate who is proactive in the fight against diabetes, the disease that claimed her mother's life.
Ricardo Antonio Chavira
Ricardo Antonio Chavira went from relative anonymity to international fame as Wisteria Lane’s resident bad boy “Carlos Solis,” on ABC's Desperate Housewives. He is San Antonio’s honorary spokesman for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, having become fervently committed to the cause after ...
Steven Galson
Rear Admiral Steven K. Galson, MD, MPH, served as the Acting United States Surgeon General for two years until October 2009, during which time he was the nation's primary advocate for good health. Deeply involved in the most current and pressing healthcare issues, his work included proposing reform of the American ...
Hoda Kotb
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 Total Health since September 2004.
Roger and Kathy Cawthon
Roger Cawthon was a television sportscaster for CNN. Kathy Cawthon is a freelance writer and photographer. The couple was diagnosed with cancer within six weeks of each other. After rigorous cancer treatment, the two founded the Cancer Crusade, an organization dedicated to fighting cancer with hope and humor.
Marcia Strassman
Best known for her role as Julie Kotter in the iconic 1970s TV series Welcome Back Kotter and as the eponymous "Honey" in the Honey I Shrunk the Kids movies, Marcia Strassman is a self described "Cancer Warrior," willing to take on anything to win her battle, and take as many women along with her as she ...
Stefanie Schaeffer
An instinctive presenter and host, Schaffer is a charismatic and charming motivational speaker with compassion and insight regarding business, life focus techniques and fitness.
Geralyn Lucas
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 incredible journey in her memoir, Why I Wore Lipstick: To My Mastectomy, and her powerful keynote speeches.
Kayce Freed Jennings
Kayce Freed Jennings is co-founder and executive vice president of The Documentary Group, an independent production company. The Documentary Group produced Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience, which was nominated for a 2008 Academy Award.
Joe Torre
The experience of leading the Yankees to three World Series titles makes Torre an expert on what it takes to win and the importance of teamwork. His tenacity and dedication has made him the only person ever to be named both the MVP and Manager of the Year.
Jeffrey Wigand
As a tobacco control and ethics crusader, and the highest-ranking former tobacco industry executive ever to address public health and safety, Dr. Wigand's story was the inspiration for the award-winning movie, The Insider, starring Russell Crowe. A true proponent of proper business ethics, Wigand moves audiences with his ...
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