Healthcare Innovation Strategist | Network Builder | International Health Advocate

Tanya Abreu is a nationally recognized healthcare innovator, consumer health strategist, and hospital network builder with more than 30 years of experience transforming how healthcare is delivered, experienced, and sustained. She is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Power Up Nursing, a groundbreaking platform uniting nurses and hospitals to deploy data-driven burnout prevention and workforce well-being strategies. Tanya also serves as a Senior Strategic Executive for the health tech company MOXIE 360 and as Co-Founder and Advisor to Treasure Coast Digital Health, leading innovations in remote patient monitoring and chronic care management.

A pioneer in building large-scale provider and hospital networks, Tanya has designed and launched global women’s health programs with Magee-Womens Hospital and USAID, created and led the Spirit of Women Hospital Network—expanding it from 3 hospitals to over 300—and raised more than $140 million for healthcare projects across the United States, Eastern Europe, Africa, and beyond. Her programs emphasize scalability, human-centered technology, and patient experience while driving measurable clinical, operational, and financial outcomes.

Tanya has delivered more than 400 keynote presentations, appeared in major media including CNN, Fox News, Good Morning America, and The Huffington Post, and served on national advisory boards including the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office on Women’s Health. Her message is simple but powerful: great healthcare should be “ridiculously easy to get,” and the path to health and vitality should “always feel good—never guilty.”

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The Top Ten Ways to Go from Worn Out to WOW — Right NOW

An inspirational presentation that offers ten instant strategies to boost your mood and your health. Based on medical research and science, Tanya Abreu explores “in the moment” cures for depression, grief, and anxiety with a healty dose of self-discovery and humor.

Cancer is a Cure for a Purposeless Life: My Survivor Story

Tanya Abreu boldly shares her story of complicated uterine cancer, its diagnosis, treatment, and the topsy turvy three year “survival” period that followed that may indeed have been more challenging than the cancer fight. In this powerful message, we learn that often the outcome of facing death is truly learning how to embrace life.

High Performance Living: Lessons from Women Around the World

In her three decades of traveling the world working in the field of women’s health, Tanya Abreu has experienced patterns of survival and success for women in all cultures, of all races, and of all resources. In this creative “travelogue” presentation, you will meet women who although very different share the same habits to go from hopelessness to happiness.

The Lesser-Known Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease: Love, Laughter, and Cell Phones

Science is showing us that positive emotions and human connection is powerful preventive medicine. In some research studies, the happiness factor prevented and/or treated cardiovascular disease better or as well as pharmaceuticals. A-ha your way through this presentation on the link between feeling good, being in love, and laughing and protecting yourself from heart attacks and strokes.

Have You Heard the Buzz: Best Body, Best Sex, & Best Life after 50

It IS possible to be your best after 50 in body, mind, and spirit. You just have to believe and know and practice a few secrets. In this exploration of age-free living, Tanya Abreu shares science, personal experience, and practical advice for a vibrant life over 50.

How Optimism and the New Science of Happiness Can Change YOUR Life and Health

Most people know that being happy makes them healthier, but few of us know how to get there. In this lively and practical presentation, Tanya Abreu shares research in pschoneuroimmunology (PNI) that demonstrates how our emotions really do control our health and vice versa. You will also learn how to cultivate optimism to get fit in mind, body, and spirit.
 

The Hokey Pokey of Health™: Putting Your Whole Self In

In this fun, funny, and informative presentation, Tanya Abreu shares body-part-by-body part, an integrative approach to total health that will leave you healthier, more playful, and energized for life. You can turn yourself around by putting your whole self in. After all, that’s what life is all about!
 

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HOW TRUST CHANGES EVERYTHING:  Communication Strategies to Raise Patient Satisfaction Scores, Hospital Safety, and Employee Morale

Nurse Leaders are the “voice” of the hospital internally and in the community. Research repeatedly shows that the consumer trusts a nurse more than any other medical professional including doctors and psychiatrists as well as police and clergy.  In this inspirational and interactive presentation, Tanya Abreu explores research and real world examples of how cultivating a hospital culture of trust can improve key performance indicators and enhance the hospital’s reputation and market share.

Attendees will leave with fresh perspective on trust as a hospital growth strategy along with practical examples on how to create and execute trust-centric communication plans at their own hospitals.
 

POWER UP NURSING

AROUND THE WORLD OF WOMEN’S HEALTH

Drawing from her more than 25 years of experience in the planning and promotion of women’s health services at hundreds of U.S. hospitals and physician practices as well in consulting in women’s health for the United States Agency for International Development, Tanya delivers a stunning portrait of global women’s health and how it pertains to all of our futures.

THE HEART OF HEALTH

A cardiovascular specialty presentation that champions heart health as primary care. She also explores the lesser known risk factors for heart disease and stroke like loneliness, anger, and fear and how their integration into clinical practice and education can both grow and differentiate a CV practice.

CODE RED: Healthcare Marketing is DEAD

This fast-paced presentation traces the rise and fall of hospital/doctor advertising as well as presents the difference between brand promotion and patient/client acquisition.

DIGITAL MEDICINE

The Next Wave of Healthcare Communication & Patient Satisfaction. Understanding the future of telemedicine, online education, and healthcare marketing.

DOCTOR, Sell Thyself

A How-To Workshop on building YOUR brand as a doctor and leveraging your passion as a healthcare professional.