Healthcare

Megan Crowley, daughter of APB speaker John F. Crowley (subject of the film Extraordinary Measures and healthcare entrepreneur), was featured in an article in The Wall Street Journal. At the age of one, Megan was diagnosed with Pompe disease, a rare and fatal neuromuscular disorder. Doctors told her parents, John and Aileen, that she would not live to see her high school graduation. John refused to accept this fate for his child.

Can music alleviate depression, reduce the need for drugs—or even prevent illness by boosting the immune system? Kim Campbell, widow of pop-country music legend Glen, witnessed the healing power of music when her husband was battling Alzheimer’s disease. “Music as medicine” is the mission of the new Kim and Glen Campbell Foundation. Its goal is to use music to improve the lives of those with mental illness or cognitive impairments and their caregivers.

Former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a Nobel Peace Laureate known as “Africa’s Iron Lady,” has been appointed Health Workforce Ambassador by the World Health Organization (WHO).

APB speaker Heather Abbott, a survivor of the Boston Marathon Bombing and amputee, was featured on CNN.com as part of their Champions for Change series. A voice for others who have suffered limb loss through traumatic circumstances, Abbott discussed resiliency in the face of trauma and the role that prosthetics played in her recovery.

After a suffering a miscarriage, the death of her father and her husband dying of a brain tumor all within six weeks, APB speaker Nora McInerny’s world turned upside down. Author and host of the Terrible, Thanks for Asking podcast, McInerny recently released her new book The Hot Young Widows Club: Lessons on Survival from the Front Lines of Grief (TED Books).  

APB speaker Kim Campbell, widow of country music star Glen Campbell and founder of CareLiving.org, has founded the Kim and Glen Campbell Foundation to advance the use of music as medicine to alleviate depression, manage behaviors and boost the immune system.

What are the hardest and most powerful things we say to one another? With her best-selling book Tell Me More now released in paperback, APB speaker Kelly Corrigan sat down with Savannah Guthrie and Jenna Bush Hager to discuss the essential phrases that turn the wheel of life. 

Dedicated to fighting stigma, educating the public and offering support to those struggling, our sought-after speakers engage audiences with discussions on recovery, mental health, and substance use disorders.

Every April, healthcare professionals and health experts come together to increase public awareness about the causes of and cures for the modern stress epidemic. APB Healthcare offers several speakers who touch on the topics of stress, happiness and balance. 

A reluctant grief expert and “notable widow” (her words), APB speaker Nora McInerny miscarried her second baby, lost her father to cancer and lost her husband, Aaron, to a brain tumor all within six weeks in 2014. In a recent TED Talk entitled “We Don’t 'Move On’ from Grief. We Move Forward with It,” she blends candor and humor as she shares valuable lessons she has learned about life and death.