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 in ...
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. Sh ...
Kelly Corrigan
With wrenching honesty, poignancy, and a dose of humor, Corrigan explores "the middle place – that sliver of time when parenthood and childhood overlap before a parent's illness hurls you into full-fledged adulthood and the realization of your parents' mortality as well as your own."
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 pregnan ...
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 ...
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 par ...
Nicolas 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 himse ...
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 vie ...
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 life ...
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 Hea ...
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 awar ...
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 a ...
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 about ...
Gail Sheehy
Best-selling author and cultural observer Gail Sheehy has changed the way millions of people throughout the world look at their lives. Her original landmark work, Passages, made history, remaining on The New York Times best-seller list for more than three years and appearing in 28 languages. A Library of Congr ...
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 st ...
Patrick Hickey
A clinical assistant professor of nursing at the University of South Carolina, Hickey, in an effort to call attention to the nation's nurse shortage, became the first nurse to climb the seven summits of the world. A motivational and healthcare speaker, he parallels his experience with the broader perspectives of goal setti ...
Barry Glassner
The author of seven books on contemporary social issues, he is Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California. His book, The Culture of Fear, is a national bestseller and was named a Best Book of the Year by Knight-Ridder newspapers and by the Los Angeles Times Book Review. He is described by ...
Lee Woodruff
After her husband, ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff, sustained a critical brain injury in Iraq, they together penned In an Instant: A Family’s Journey of Love and Healing, The New York Times best-selling book about their family’s difficult journey through Bob’s recovery. Now, in her latest book, Perfect ...
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