Women's Healthcare Evangelist, Hospital Stategist, Healthcare Futurist, and Nursing Profession Advocate

With more than 35 years of experience in healthcare development, marketing, and consumer advocacy, Tanya is personally and professionally proud of being able to build consensus in a crowd, corporation, or community around a unified message or “cause” that improves health and life.

In these post-pandemic isolated-lifestyle times, Tanya is committed to creating speaking experiences in-person or online that reconnect attendees to themselves, families, careers, and healthcare in a remarkable, positive, and energetic way. She speaks on any topic in consumer health, healthcare enterprise enthusiasm, resilience, cancer survival, chronic pain and stress, women’s encouragement, midlife mindfulness, nurses transforming healthcare, joyful aging, and revival.

From the planning of the first network of freestanding breast health centers in the greater Pittsburgh metropolitan area while with Magee-Womens Hospital and the establishment of more than 75 model women’s health education and primary care clinics around the world through Magee Womancare International and USAID to the more than 15 years of experience with Spirit Health Network, a strategic marketing company that she co-founded creating networks of women’s specialty programs at U.S. Hospitals, Tanya Abreu focuses on the power of scalability, patient experience, provider engagement, and efficiency in healthcare.

In the past 8+ years, Tanya has worked with hospitals, physician practices, and healthcare innovation companies on new models in health including digital healthcare, medical monitoring, telehealth, online education and motivation. In her role as a healthcare consultant, she has helped to found and form a non-profit for nurse empowerment, advised the world’s largest and oldest online provider of women’s health information, and helped to create and promote integrated women’s health and wellness centers.

Tanya continues her career as a much sought-after public speaker, author, social media personality, and consultant who believes that great healthcare should be ridiculously easy to get and the personal journey to better health should always feel good, never guilty. She has delivered more than 500 keynote speeches and conducted private workshops throughout the country and internationally in partnership with the United States Agency for International Development. Her views about innovation, transformation, and the woman’s perspective on healthcare have been published in the Huffington Post, The Ireland Report and elsewhere. She has been featured in over 100 television, radio, and newspaper interviews around the country as an expert in moving the healthcare consumer from awareness to action.

Tanya was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and currently lives in Lake Worth, Florida with her 7-year-old granddaughter Grace, her 11-year-old grandson Cody, and a menagerie of pets. Tanya enjoys travel, cooking, dancing, hiking, beaches, challenging boardrooms, bike riding, reading, and “getting things done” both personally and professionally. She volunteers for children in need, foreign charities, and women’s groups. She is also a part-time faculty member at Florida International University proffering courses in leadership, communication, and public speaking.
 

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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!
 

TOPICS FOR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS:

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.