WebMD 2015 Health Heroes Awards Gala
Video Transcript
[MUSIC PLAYING]
ROBIN ROBERTS: Welcome, everybody, to the second annual WebMD Health Heroes Award. You can see it is a star-studded affair. And we are here to celebrate people who are truly making a difference in the world of health.
SETH ROGEN: It's nice to know that there are people truly doing things to make people healthier, live longer, happier lives.
FRAN DRESCHER: I really believe in what they're doing. I'm glad that I'm here.
GLENN CLOSE: Being here with my sister--
JESSIE CLOSE: Yeah.
GLENN CLOSE: --is an incredibly special evening for us.
DAVID SCHLANGER: This evening's going to be fun, entertaining, but also very inspirational.
ROBIN ROBERTS: Good evening, everyone.
FRAN DRESCHER: You're all my new heroes. [LAUGHS]
KRISTY HAMMAM: These people need to be recognized. They're inspiring. Their stories are inspiring. And we want to shine a light on them. Kenneth Shinozuka, our Prodigy winner, invented a device that helps alert when Alzheimer's patients are wandering. He's 17 years old.
KENNETH SHINOZUKA: I knew that I had to take it into my own hands to create a solution.
SETH ROGEN: It is my honor to present the 2015 WebMD Health Hero Prodigy Award.
KENNETH SHINOZUKA: Oh my goodness. Can I say, oh my goodness? Did Seth Rogen just give me an award?
DAVID SCHLANGER: To become a WebMD Health Hero, you really have to make a meaningful contribution. You have to see a health problem and say, hey, I can solve that problem.
BROADWAY BOYS: (SINGING) We can be heroes.
STEVEN ZATZ: It's an incredibly special night, to be able to celebrate these Health Heroes. And what they do for all the rest of us is inspire us to be better.
KRISTY HAMMAM: Our Advocate winner founded Save a Warrior. And that's a program that helps veterans recovery from post traumatic stress.
KEVIN LACZ: As a veteran, I'm both thrilled and honored to present the 2015 WebMD Health Hero Advocate Award to a true American hero, Jake Clark.
JAKE CLARK: We will be the difference so that others might live.
MARY MCBRIDE: (SINGING) All I need is your tenderness.
ROBIN ROBERTS: Whoo!
JESSIE CLOSE: I am so honored to present the People's Choice award to my fabulous big sister.
KRISTY HAMMAM: Glenn Close founded Bring Change 2 Mind, which is an organization that helps to end the stigma of mental illness.
GLENN CLOSE: Thank you, WebMD. I am deeply honored.
KRISTY HAMMAM: Our Scientists winner, Dr. Omalu, he discovered a disease called CTE. And he was the first to diagnose it in a former NFL player.
HARRY CARSON: I am so very honored to present the 2015 WebMD Health Hero Science Award to Dr. Bennet Omalu.
DR. BENNET OMALU: This is the humanity of science. This is the humanity of being a held hero.
AMOS LEE: (SINGING) We all need a place we can go, stay over the rainbow.
JAKE CLARK: Thank you.
GLENN CLOSE: Thank you.
DR. BENNET OMALU: Thank you.
KENNETH SHINOZUKA: Thank you so much.
ROBIN ROBERTS: Stay healthy. Stay happy. Stay well. And come back-- y'all come back now, here?-- next year. Thank y'all very much. [APPLAUSE] [MUSIC PLAYING]
ROBIN ROBERTS: Welcome, everybody, to the second annual WebMD Health Heroes Award. You can see it is a star-studded affair. And we are here to celebrate people who are truly making a difference in the world of health.
SETH ROGEN: It's nice to know that there are people truly doing things to make people healthier, live longer, happier lives.
FRAN DRESCHER: I really believe in what they're doing. I'm glad that I'm here.
GLENN CLOSE: Being here with my sister--
JESSIE CLOSE: Yeah.
GLENN CLOSE: --is an incredibly special evening for us.
DAVID SCHLANGER: This evening's going to be fun, entertaining, but also very inspirational.
ROBIN ROBERTS: Good evening, everyone.
FRAN DRESCHER: You're all my new heroes. [LAUGHS]
KRISTY HAMMAM: These people need to be recognized. They're inspiring. Their stories are inspiring. And we want to shine a light on them. Kenneth Shinozuka, our Prodigy winner, invented a device that helps alert when Alzheimer's patients are wandering. He's 17 years old.
KENNETH SHINOZUKA: I knew that I had to take it into my own hands to create a solution.
SETH ROGEN: It is my honor to present the 2015 WebMD Health Hero Prodigy Award.
KENNETH SHINOZUKA: Oh my goodness. Can I say, oh my goodness? Did Seth Rogen just give me an award?
DAVID SCHLANGER: To become a WebMD Health Hero, you really have to make a meaningful contribution. You have to see a health problem and say, hey, I can solve that problem.
BROADWAY BOYS: (SINGING) We can be heroes.
STEVEN ZATZ: It's an incredibly special night, to be able to celebrate these Health Heroes. And what they do for all the rest of us is inspire us to be better.
KRISTY HAMMAM: Our Advocate winner founded Save a Warrior. And that's a program that helps veterans recovery from post traumatic stress.
KEVIN LACZ: As a veteran, I'm both thrilled and honored to present the 2015 WebMD Health Hero Advocate Award to a true American hero, Jake Clark.
JAKE CLARK: We will be the difference so that others might live.
MARY MCBRIDE: (SINGING) All I need is your tenderness.
ROBIN ROBERTS: Whoo!
JESSIE CLOSE: I am so honored to present the People's Choice award to my fabulous big sister.
KRISTY HAMMAM: Glenn Close founded Bring Change 2 Mind, which is an organization that helps to end the stigma of mental illness.
GLENN CLOSE: Thank you, WebMD. I am deeply honored.
KRISTY HAMMAM: Our Scientists winner, Dr. Omalu, he discovered a disease called CTE. And he was the first to diagnose it in a former NFL player.
HARRY CARSON: I am so very honored to present the 2015 WebMD Health Hero Science Award to Dr. Bennet Omalu.
DR. BENNET OMALU: This is the humanity of science. This is the humanity of being a held hero.
AMOS LEE: (SINGING) We all need a place we can go, stay over the rainbow.
JAKE CLARK: Thank you.
GLENN CLOSE: Thank you.
DR. BENNET OMALU: Thank you.
KENNETH SHINOZUKA: Thank you so much.
ROBIN ROBERTS: Stay healthy. Stay happy. Stay well. And come back-- y'all come back now, here?-- next year. Thank y'all very much. [APPLAUSE] [MUSIC PLAYING]