Bio
Brant Oliver is a healthcare improvement and implementation scientist, educator, and ANCC board-certified family and psychiatric nurse practitioner (FNP-BC, PMHNP-BC). Dr. Oliver's work focuses on applied healthcare improvement implementation science research with a focus on "3C" (complex, costly, and chronic) health conditions (including multiple sclerosis (MS), Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), Cystic Fibrosis (CF), and others), Coproduction, Learning Health Systems (LHS), and Shared Decision Making (SDM). He has been in clinical practice since 2003, working primarily as a MS specialist and neurobehavioral nurse practitioner. In 2020, he founded the Chronic Health Improvement Research Program (CHIRP), which applies improvement science research to optimize care, experience, and outcomes for people with "3C" conditions. In 2021, he was appointed as interim Associate Chief Quality Officer for Patient Experience at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and in 2022 was named system Vice President for Care Experience for the Dartmouth Health system. Dr. Oliver is the 2022 recipient of the QSEN Institute Researcher of the Year award and the 2023 recipient of the Batalden Award from the U.S. Department of Veteran’s Affairs, both recognizing career achievements in healthcare improvement, improvement science, and related teaching, research, and leadership.
Dr. Oliver holds faculty appointments at Dartmouth, the Department of Veterans Affairs VA National Quality Scholars (VAQS) and Health Professions Education, Evaluation, and Research (HPEER) fellowship programs, the Jefferson College of Population Health in Philadelphia, the MGH Institute of Health Professions School of Nursing in Boston, and the Jonkoping University School of Health and Social Welfare in Sweden. He is a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and experienced in Clinical Microsystems and IHI Model for Improvement approaches, including IHI Breakthrough Series (BTS) collaboratives, and has specific expertise in healthcare improvement measurement and analytics. He teaches graduate students, residents, and post-doctoral fellows in improvement science, methodology, measurement, and analytics.
MORE ABOUT DR. OLIVER’s WORK…
Dr. Oliver was principal investigator of the first multi-center improvement science research collaborative for multiple sclerosis (MS-CQI, 2017-2020), and is PI for the new Next Generation Learning Health System for Multiple Sclerosis multi-center research collaborative (Next-Gen MS, 2021- ), and is or has been an investigator, methodologist, and/or faculty in large scale improvement efforts in the US, UK, Sweden, Canada, and Australia, including the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation, and the International Coproduction of Health Network (ICoHN). He was also Co-PI of the COVID Collaboration (2020-2023), a cooperative effort between TDI and East Carolina University led by Dr. Gene Nelson investigating COVID-related epidemiology and public health applications and is recently co-lead of a Levy Incubator funded innovation project with Dr. Jeffrey Parsonette at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center to create a Learning Health System for Post-Acute COVID Syndrome (PACS) care (2021-22). Dr. Oliver is also PI of CO-VALUE (2019- ), an ICoHN study developing an assessment model for coproduction value creation in an international community of practice co-founded with visionary improvement scholar Dr. Paul Batalden. Most recently, he joined the executive leadership team for the Dartmouth Promise Partnership, serving as its new Executive Director. Promise is a coproduction learning health system initiative scaled to the entire Dartmouth Health system and engages simultaneously in improvement, implementation, and health services research activities. Finally, in recognition of his expertise in healthcare improvement measurement and analysis, Dr. Oliver was recently invited to serve as lead editor for a new textbook, "Practical Measurement for Improving Health and Healthcare," which was released in 2022 by Joint Commission Resources. The new textbook provides rigorous practical healthcare improvement measurement and analysis skills for busy health professions students, faculty, and health professionals.
Published Research
Hamilton K, Smith K, Winn K, Oliver B, Newland P, Hendricks-Ferguson V
Biol Res Nurs|2024 Jan
Austin AM, Leggett CG, Schmidt P, Bolin P, Nelson EC, Oliver BJ, King AC
Front Clin Diabetes Healthc|2022
Waseem H, Keegan J, Farrell K, Hwang DY, Oliver B, Olm-Shipman C, Pepin R, Mecchella J
Neurol Clin Pract|2023 Feb
Tosteson ANA, Kirkland KB, Holthoff MM, Van Citters AD, Brooks GA, Cullinan AM, Dowling-Schmitt MC, Holmes AB, Meehan KR, Oliver BJ, Wasp GT, Wilson MM, Nelson EC
J Ambul Care Manage|2023 Apr-Jun 01
Pohnert AM, Schiltz NK, Pino L, Ball S, Duffy EG, McCormack ME, Oliver B, Patterson A, Pelton L, Dolansky MA
Health Serv Res|2023 Feb
Courses Taught
PH 124 & PH 129:
Advanced Topics in Quality Improvement (elective)
(1.5 units (PH 124); 1.0 unit (PH 129))
This course addresses advanced topics in improvement science and coproduction and explores implementation science, value creation in health care, coaching, and leadership/change management. Students will have the opportunity to apply skills from prior courses (PH 117, 126, & 120 (coproduction)) to case studies and other learning opportunities related to improving health and health care services. Content for the course will include both U.S.-based and international material.
The Integrative Learning Experience (ILE) component can be met in this course.