Ann Colleen Falkenberg Olson PhD, RN, FNP-BC, WHNP-BC, FAANP
Dr. Ann Falkenberg Olson is currently a Nurse Research Scientist and Education consultant incorporating her academic education, clinical expertise, professional accomplishments, research pathways, and passion in supporting health care transformation. She is a former tenured professor with the Winona State University-Rochester College of Nursing and Health Sciences Graduate Programs and previously with the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities DNP Consortium. She maintains her dual NP certification in Family Practice and Women's Health, and is a certified clinical densitometrist.
Her 30+ years of clinical practice involved primary care for women incorporating social determinants of health (SDH) with programmatic community involvement and correlating common high morbidity risk trajectories across the lifespan. Her research focus includes perimenopausal women and bone health, reliability testing of osteoporosis clinical risk factor device and tools for early detection of risk, and clinical implementation and evaluation of risk detection models. Dr. Falkenberg Olson's past work in health care policy has supported regional, state, and national efforts that promote APNs within transdisciplinary health care delivery models.
Dr. Ann Falkenberg Olson’s recent and evolving research interest focuses on DNP and PhD APN collaborations as key in transitional and sustainable health care system and community health improvements. She is contributing to research inquiry in academic-clinical-industry partnering between and among DNP and PhD educators, practitioners, scientists, administrators, and policymakers within a transdisciplinary model to impact our health care system in all domains. Her work is published in journal articles, with findings presented at regional, national and international research and clinical conferences.