With new advancements and trends occurring in the fitness, nutrition, and health industries every day, it can prove difficult to keep informed on the health issues that are important to our well-being. American Program Bureau is pleased to offer you a full roster of the most experienced and knowledgeable health and wellness speakers that can address the issues and educate you on the importance of living a healthy, active, and balanced lifestyle.
Our professional speakers include medical and Health Policy Experts, Specialists in Alternative Medicine, Nutritionists, Life Coaches, and many others. We also offer expert medical professionals to speak on specific health concerns, such as HIV/AIDS, Cancer, Obesity, Heart Disease and Diabetes. Offering a combination of fresh perspectives, in-depth knowledge, and an up-to-date perspective on all health and wellness issues, these speakers will prove to be an informative and inspirational voice for people of all ages and genders.
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, ...
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 ...
Gro Harlem Brundtland
Former Prime Minister of Norway, Director-General of the World Health Organization, and Chair of the World Commission on Environment and Development, Dr. Brundtland has been a prominent force in addressing key issues such as healthcare, economic sustainability, and the challenges to the environment throughout the world. ...
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 ...
M. Joycelyn Elders
As a pediatric endocrinologist and 15th Surgeon General of the United States, Dr. Elders has a deep concern for young people and teaches that education, prevention, and responsibility are the keys to a healthy life. An outspoken advocate on behalf of children, she is an expert on the prevention of child abuse, teen ...
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, ...
Alvin Poussaint
A veteran of the Civil Rights Movement, Dr. Poussaint is a Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School who is renowned as an expert and educated crusader for the African American family within our multicultural society. He has worked closely with Bill Cosby, serving as an advisor on The Cosby Show, and has ...
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 ...
Robin Meade
The anchor of Morning Express with Robin Meade, airing on CNN's spinoff news channel HLN, Robin Meade has reported on many of today's most pressing issues – from politics and world events to momentous pop culture occurrences. Meade draws on her extensive knowledge of world affairs and experience as an anchor and ...
Nic Sheff
In a voice that is raw and honest, he spares no detail in telling the compelling, heartbreaking, and true story of his relapse and the road to recovery. He plunges into the mental and physical depths of drug addiction, painting a picture of a person at odds with his past, with his family, with his substances, and with ...
David Sheff
Renowned journalist David Sheff is the author of Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey through His Son's Addiction, a New York Times non-fiction bestseller. In it, he tells the story of his harrowing struggle to help his son Nic overcome his methamphetamine addiction from the father’s and family’s point of ...
John F. Crowley
The Crowley family story has been featured in The Wall Street Journal and is the subject of the book, The Cure, and the film Extraordinary Measures, starring Harrison Ford and Brendan Fraser. It is an inspiring story of what it means to do "whatever it takes," against phenomenal odds, for your ...
Marie Savard
Dr. Savard is a nationally-recognized internist, women’s health expert, and champion of patients’ rights. She is author of Apples & Pears: the Body Shape Solution for Weight Loss and Wellness. She founded the Patient Power Program, which demystifies the health care system and gives practical and potentially ...
Thomas Perls
Physician and researcher, Dr. Perls is an expert on aging, specializing in the unique study of centenarians, people who live to the age of 100. Currently engaged in a study that explores a key genetic region critical to increasing our life span, he addresses the implications this discovery will have on future trends.
Mehmet C. Oz
World renowned cardiologist at Columbia University and coauthor of The New York Times #1 bestsellers, You: The Owner's Manual and You: The Smart Patient, Dr. Oz is a medical powerhouse. As the resident health expert on The Oprah Winfrey Show, and host of Second Opinion on the Discovery ...
Christopher Kennedy Lawford
Born into the Kennedy dynasty, Lawford was destined to do great things: he became a successful actor, lawyer, activist, writer, and speaker. But he also battled drug and alcohol addiction, and overcame a Hepatitis C diagnosis. In addition to sharing his extraordinary journey overcoming alcohol and drug abuse, he raises ...
Ian Smith
Dr. Ian Smith is the former medical correspondent for NBC News network and for NewsChannel 4 where he filed reports for NBC's Nightly News and the Today show as well as WNBC's various news broadcasts. He has written for various publications including Time magazine and Newsweek, and is currently ...
Montel Williams
Emmy Award-winning host and executive producer of The Montel Williams Show, Williams established the Montel Williams MS Foundation to further the scientific study of multiple sclerosis after being diagnosed with the disease in 1999. Best-selling author of Mountain, Get Out of My Way and Bodychange, he ...
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 ...
Joe Pantoliano
Emmy-winning actor Pantoliano from The Matrix, is best known as "Ralphie Cifaretto" on The Sopranos. What you don’t know is that he’s a mental health advocate who has dealt with clinical depression and his mother’s bipolar disorder. He stars in the film Canvas, a poignant story about a family's ...
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