Dr. Dan Weberg
PhD, MHI, RN, FAAN
Season 08 - Episode 08
Dr. Dan Weberg
PhD, MHI, RN, FAAN
Dr. Dan Weberg is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and 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, and 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 nursing innovation and leadership at Arizona State University. He is on the editorial board for Nursing Administration Quarterly. He 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 bachelor's in Nursing and was in the first cohort to graduate from the Masters in Healthcare Innovation program and the first-ever graduate of the Ph.D. in Healthcare Innovation Leadership program at Arizona State University. Dan serves on several boards, including Vice President of the American Nurses Association California.
