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Daniel Weberg, PhD, MHI, BSN, RN, FAAN (he/him/his)

Innovation Executive
Simovative Solutions LLC + Kaiser Permanente
Alameda, California, United States

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 building nursing workforce planning, a system level new grad residency program, and other system level nursing workforce initiatives. He has also held leadership roles at KP in nursing innovation, research, and technology strategy across eight regions, 38 hospitals, 70,000 nurses. Dan was part of the founding faculty for the new Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine.
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 Leadership for Evidence Based Innovation 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.

Disclosure(s): Roddy Medical: Other Financial or Material Support (Ongoing); Seqster: Advisor (Ongoing); Wave Therapeutics: Other Financial or Material Support (Ongoing)

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