PhD
Slovenia

Tanja Španic is a professional patient advocate and current president of Europa Donna Slovenia and past – president of Europa Donna – The European Breast Cancer Coalition.

She was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 26. A year after her diagnosis, she joined Europa Donna Slovenia. Since then, she is an active breast cancer advocate nationally and internationally.

Currently she has active roles as faculty member at BCY and EBCC, in steering committee of clinical trial OlympiA and in POSITIVE trial, as chair of ESMO Patient Advocates Working Group and member of ESMO policy making group, she is a member of EBCTCG at Oxford, and Lancet Oncology Breast Cancer Commission team. In Slovenia she is a member of Ethical committee at Institute of Oncology, and of steering committee for screening programs at Ministry of Health and a member of Health council at Ministry of Health. She is co-author in several breast cancer scientific papers. She is a co-author in several scientific papers.

She has a professional background in veterinary medicine, and she has a PhD in molecular and behavioral neuroscience.