National Executive Director, Nursing Workforce Development and Innovation
Kaiser Permanente
Oakland, California
Dr. Dan Weberg is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing as well as an expert in nursing, healthcare innovation and complex systems leadership. He has extensive clinical experience in emergency departments, acute in-patient hospital settings and academia.
Dan supports Kaiser Permanente as the Executive Director of Nursing Workforce Development and Innovation supporting nursing workforce planning, a system level new grad residency program, and other system level nursing education initiatives. He has also held leadership roles at KP in nursing innovation, research, and technology strategy across eight regions, 38 hospitals, 68,000 nurses. He was also part of the founding faculty for the new Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine.
He served as the Vice President for Transformation Services at Ascension, supporting 60,000 nurses and 140+ facilities in modernizing nursing technology, developing new care models, and measuring innovation outcomes.
Previously he was Head of Clinical Innovation for Trusted Health, the staffing platform for the healthcare industry, where he helped drive product strategy and worked to change the conversation around innovation in the healthcare workforce.
Dan is on the faculty at The Ohio State University College of Nursing and multiple innovation fellowship programs. He previously taught on nursing innovation and leadership at Arizona State University. He is on the editorial board for Nursing Administration Quarterly and has authored two dozen peer-reviewed articles and two textbooks, including Evidence Based Innovation Leadership for Health Professions and Leadership in Nursing Practice.
Dan earned his Bachelors in Nursing, and was in the first cohort to graduate from the Masters in Healthcare Innovation program, as well as the first-ever graduate of the PhD in Healthcare Innovation Leadership program at Arizona State University. Dan serves on several boards, including the American Nurses Association California as Vice President.
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