American Program Bureau (APB) offers a wide range of speakers who address a myriad of medical issues, including bioethics and steroid use. Our medical issues speakers include those who furthered the medical practice through their outstanding leadership, ground-breaking research, and their focus on the future of medicine.
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Tess Gerritsen
Internationally best-selling author Tess Gerritsen took an unusual route to a writing career. A graduate of Stanford University, Gerritsen went on to attend medical school and become a physician. While on maternity leave, she began to write fiction. Eight suspense novels later, she has never looked back.
Ian Smith
Dr. Ian Smith has served as the medical/diet expert for six seasons on VH1's highly-rated Celebrity Fit Club, is the creator and founder of The 50 Million Pound Challenge, and is a medical contributor on the nationally syndicated television show Rachael Ray. Dr. Smith is also the host of his own nationally ...
Thomas Perls
Physician and researcher Dr. Perls is one of the world's leading experts on the science of living to not just 100 years, but 110 years and beyond. Based at Boston University, he directs the largest study of centenarians in the world.
Susan Love
Under her direction, The Revlon/UCLA Breast Center developed the first comprehensive practice guidelines on breast disease and was designated one of the top ten hospitals for women. Helped found the National Breast Cancer Coalition which increased research funding from $90 million to $410 million in two years.
Nancy Snyderman
After almost two decades reporting on wide-ranging medical topics affecting both men and women, Dr. Snyderman is now the Chief Medical Editor, NBC News. She previously served as the medical correspondent for ABC News for 17 years and was a contributor to 20/20, Primetime, and Good Morning ...
David Kessler
Former Commissioner of the United States Food and Drug Administration, David A. Kessler, MD, has had an accomplished career in medicine, government, and now academics. He currently serves as the Dean of the School of Medicine and Vice Chancellor for medical affairs at the University of California, San Francisco, a ...
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 ...
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 ...
Michael Chorost
Dr. Michael Chorost is a nationally known authority on bionic bodies, transhumanism, and cybertheory. A technology theorist, Chorost has a unique perspective: his body is the future. In 2001, he went completely deaf and had a computer implanted in his head to let him hear again. This transformative experience inspired his ...
Sanjay Gupta
The chief medical correspondent for the health and medical unit at CNN, Dr. Sanjay Gupta is a practicing neurosurgeon, an assistant professor of neurosurgery, and plays an integral role in the network's coverage of breaking medical news. Reporting from combat zones and areas of natural disaster, Gupta speaks on the role 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 ...
Michael Roizen
Consistently named one of the top doctors, Dr. Roizen is the co-founder of RealAge, Inc. and author of numerous best-selling books, including two New York Times bestsellers with Dr. Mehmet Oz, You: The Owner's Manual and You: The Smart Patient.
Madieu Williams
Considered one of the best safeties in the NFL, Cincinnati Bengals player Madieu Williams fled his home in war-torn Sierra Leone to later find success in professional football. He leverages this success to raise awareness for minority health issues in addition to maintaining the Madieu Williams Foundation for youth.
Robert Bazell
Robert Bazell is NBC News' Chief Health and Science Correspondent. His reports appear on NBC Nightly News, Today and Dateline NBC. Having reported on medical breakthroughs for over 30 years, Bazell is a captivating speaker on medical issues and the media.
Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor
Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor is a Harvard-trained and published neuroanatomist who experienced a severe hemorrhage in the left hemisphere of her brain. On the day of this rare form of stroke she could not walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of her life. It took eight years for Dr. Taylor to rebuild her brain. The swelling and ...
Samantha Nutt
Samantha Nutt, MD, is the author of Damned Nations: Greed, Guns, Armies & Aid, a brilliant account of her experiences providing hands-on care in some of the world's most violent places.
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