Just like many of us, athletes have also been touched in some way by cancer. They use their platform to bring awareness to various forms of cancer and raise money to find a cure. Cancer speakers from the sports world open their hearts to share their personal stories with corporate groups, charities, universities, faith-based groups and other organizations. Whether it be a motivational or inspirational speaking engagement, charity cancer walk, virtual meeting, trade show appearance, VIP Meet and greet, product endorsement or other event, the team at Athlete Speakers will work with your group or organization to find the perfect cancer speaker.
Dr. Nido Qubein Consultant / Award-winning Speaker
Nido Qubein came to the U.S. as a teenager with no knowledge of English no contacts and only fifty dollars in his pocket yet ended up a multi-millionaire business entrepreneur and philanthropist. Qube... Read More
Deborah Schrag Dr. Schrag joined the Department in February 1999 as a member of the Health Outcomes Research Group.
Deborah Schrag is a medical oncologist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, where she specializes in gastrointestinal cancer. Previously she wasan associate attending physician at Memorial S... Read More
Donna Deegan Breast Cancer Awareness Advocate
Donna Deegan is an American author, breast cancer awareness advocate, and former weekday television anchor on First Coast News at WTLV/WJXX in Jacksonville, Florida, United States. Deegan previously c... Read More
Dina Zielinski Bench Scientist & Bioinformatician
Dina Zielinski is a bench scientist and bioinformatician with broad experience in genetics and genomics. Her current projects are in developmental biology and neurology but she is motivated to keep le... Read More
David Ansell Senior Vice President for Community Health Equity at Rush University Medical Center
David Ansell MD MPH is the senior vice president for community health equity at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. He is an internal medicine physician who spent seventeen years at Cook County... Read More
David Baker Director of the Institute for Protein Design
David Baker is the Henrietta and Aubrey Davis Endowed Professor in Biochemistry Director of the Institute for Protein Design Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and adjunct professor o... Read More
Dr. James Allison 2018 Nobel Prize in Medicine Recipient; Chair of Immunology & Executive Director of Immunotherapy at the University of Texas
James Patrick Allison is an American immunologist and Nobel laureate who holds the position of professor and chair of immunology and executive director of immunotherapy platform at the MD Anderson Can... Read More
Douglas Yee MD Director of the Masonic Cancer Center at the University of Minnesota
Douglas Yee MD director of the Masonic Cancer Center at the University of Minnesota is the point person for all cancer research at the University of Minnesota. He also treats patients with breast canc... Read More
Dr. Elizabeth Jaffee Deputy Director of the Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins & 2019 President of the American Association for Cancer Research; Expert in Breast Cancer & Pancreatic Cancer Immunology
Dr. Elizabeth M. Jaffee is an international leader in the development of immune-based therapies for pancreatic and breast cancers. Jaffee holds six cancer vaccine patents & hopes her research will con... Read More
David Joske Professor Clinical Haematologist & Founder of SolarisCare
David Joske is a clinical haematologist at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital (SCGH) and was Head of Haematology 1994 – 2012. His clinical and research interests include the treatment of lymphomas palliat... Read More