(Facilitator of
Spirtuality / Shamanism / Health Policy)
Dr. Margaret Moss
is Associate Professor and Specialty Director of the Nursing Management, Policy, and Leadership Program at Yale University School of Nursing. In 2008-2009, Dr. Moss was named Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow, and staffed the Senate Special Committee on Aging in
Washington DC under the ranking Senators Martinez and then Corker. She was inducted as a Fellow into the American Academy of Nursing in 2008. She holds a
Bachelor of Science in Biology from Washington State University, a Masters Degree in
Nursing with a specialization in Management, a Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing
from the University of Texas-Houston, Health Sciences Center where she was
honored with a distinguished alumni award, and a Juris Doctorate from Hamline
University School of Law. Dr. Moss also completed a 2-year post doctorate
fellowship at the University of Colorado: Native Elder Research Center.
Dr. Moss is an enrolled member of the Three affiliated Tribes of North Dakota, the Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara Nation. Dr. Moss is Hidatsa with equal lineage in the Fort Peck Sioux Tribe. She is one of only 13 American Indians in the country who holds a doctorate in
nursing. Of these nurses, she is the first and only one to also hold a law
degree. Her interests are in aging, long-term care, functional disability,
access to care, and policy with a special focus on America Indians. She conducts ethnography, survey work, geographical information science and reservation-based research.
In 2004,
the Governor of Minnesota appointed Dr. Moss to the Minnesota Board on Aging, where she
sat on the Diversity and Public Policy committees. She was selected as one of 19
delegates by the National Congress of American Indians to represent Indian elder
issues at the 2005 White House Conference on Aging. Dr. Moss has researched,
presented extensively, and written on the subject of American Indians, aging,
health, and social justice in health.
Dr. Margaret Moss
is Associate Professor and Specialty Director of the Nursing Management, Policy, and Leadership Program at Yale University School of Nursing. In 2008-2009, Dr. Moss was named Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow, and staffed the Senate Special Committee on Aging in
Washington DC under the ranking Senators Martinez and then Corker. She was inducted as a Fellow into the American Academy of Nursing in 2008. She holds a
Bachelor of Science in Biology from Washington State University, a Masters Degree in
Nursing with a specialization in Management, a Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing
from the University of Texas-Houston, Health Sciences Center where she was
honored with a distinguished alumni award, and a Juris Doctorate from Hamline
University School of Law. Dr. Moss also completed a 2-year post doctorate
fellowship at the University of Colorado: Native Elder Research Center.