Dr. Margaret Moss
PhD, JD, RN, FAAN [Hidatsa/Dakhóta]
Professor and Associate Dean for Nursing and Health Policy
Katherine R. & C. Walton Lillehei Chair in Nursing Leadership
University of Minnesota School of Nursing
Season 08 - Episode 07
Dr. Margaret P. Moss, PhD, JD, RN, FAAN [Hidatsa/Dakhóta]
Dr. Moss is a University of Minnesota SON Professor and Associate Dean for Nursing and Health Policy- is an enrolled member of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation with equal lineage in a Dakhóta First Nation. She is the first and only American Indian to hold both Nursing and Juris Doctorates. She has been a nurse for 34 years and an academic for 23 years across 4 universities, including the University of Minnesota, Yale University, SUNY Buffalo, and recently-the University of British Columbia (UBC). Dr. Moss was a RWJF Health Policy Fellow staffing the US Senate Special Committee on Aging; a Fulbright Research Chair at McGill University, Montreal; and on a Minister of Health for British Columbia team on Anti-Indigenous racism, resulting in the report- In Plain Sight. Dr. Moss published an award-winning text, American Indian Health and Nursing (2015); co-led the development of the UBC Indigenous Strategic Plan (2020); was named to the inaugural Forbes 50 over 50 Impact List (2021); is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, and a member of the American Academy of Nursing’s Board of Directors (2021-2023); and is a new member of the National Academy of Medicine. Her areas of interest are in Aging, Policy, and Law, focusing on American Indian and other Indigenous and diverse populations.
