Top 25 Women in Healthcare - 2017
Marla Weston
CEO, ANA Enterprise
Weston is CEO of the ANA Enterprise and for the past eight years has served as CEO of it subsidiary, the American Nurses Association, a leading membership and advocacy organization for the profession. She also oversees the American Nurses Foundation and the American Nurses Credentialing Center, also ANA Enterprise units. Before joining the ANA in 2009, Weston served at the U.S. Veterans Healthcare Administration, first as program director in the Office of Nursing Services and then as deputy chief officer in the agency's Workforce Management and Consulting Office. In those roles she managed programs and initiatives designed to support caregivers in the VHA and to promote nurse retention in the health system.