What Do You Want to Know About Health Care?
Are you looking for a speaker for your next community program? The Duke Raleigh Hospital Speakers Bureau includes many experts who are available to provide programs to community and civic groups on a wide range of health-related topics from health and wellness to the arts and healing. Contact the Duke Raleigh Speakers Bureau for your upcoming engagement, meeting or educational program.
Making a request
To make a speaker request, please download the speaker request form, fill it out completely and fax it to 919-954-3008 at least 30 days prior to the event date. A representative from the public relations department will contact you to gather any additional information to help in coordinating the speaker. Please note the event information, topic of interest and whether you will need the speaker’s bio and/or head shot for marketing your community program as well as what audio/visual resources are available. Please identify a contact that will be available to meet the speaker on-site the day of the event.
All programs offered through the Speakers Bureau are available free of charge.
Available Topics
While the below list provides a broad overview of topics available through the Bureau, please ask if you are interested in a specific topic, as many of our speakers can tailor their presentations to better meet your needs.
- Cardiovascular health
- Women and heart health
- Cardiovascular disease risk factor reduction
- Case Management/Psychosocial support
- Transitioning family members to assisted living and nursing homes
- Medicare
- Advance directives
- Guardianship process
- Caregiver stress
- Spiritual and emotional care
- Crisis intervention
- Diabetes
- Diabetes and nutrition education
- Duke Raleigh Hospital Overview
- Emergency Medicine
- Ethics and religion in health care
- Exercise & Wellness
- Exercise and nutrition tips
- How to use a pedometer
- Gastroenterology
- Colorectal cancer
- Health care in our region
- Health, the arts and healing
- Volunteerism
- Human Resources/Employee Development
- Developing the workforce
- Growing rewards and recognition programs
- Recruiting
- Behavioral interviewing
- Information Technology
- The role of information technology in health care
- Personal health records
- Health information exchange
- Marketing & Community Outreach
- Community benefits overview
- Maximizing your media
- Neurosciences
- Headaches
- Neuropathy
- Epilepsy
- Multiple sclerosis
- Stroke
- Cerebrovascular disease
- Dementia
- Sleep disorders: insomnia, obstructive sleep apnea
- Nursing Education
- Defining nursing excellence
- Employee engagement
- Oncology
- Lung cancer
- Breast cancer
- Thrombosis
- Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine
- Shoulder care: the aging shoulder, shoulder arthritis, tendon tears and exercise and the shoulder
- Spine health: degenerative disc disease, herniated discs, sciatica, spondylolisthesis, spinal fractures and physical therapy for spinal conditions
- Osteoporosis
- Scoliosis and kyphosis
- Otolaryngology; Voice Care
- Hoarseness
- Disorders of the upper airway
- Swallowing problems
- Care of the singing voice
- Care of the occupational voice (teachers, clergy, broadcasters, etc)
- Care of the aging voice
- Head/neck cancer
- Chronic coughing
- Pain Management
- Pain management after orthopaedic surgery
- Pulmonary Health
- Safety
- Emergency preparedness
- Technology in health care
- da Vinci Surgical System
- Women’s Health
- Ovarian cancer
- Osteoporosis
- Heart health
- Wound Healing
For more information about the Duke Raleigh Speakers Bureau, please contact the marketing and public relations office at 919-954-3293 or at p.humble@duke.edu .
