AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

  • #implementation science
  • #quality improvement

Bio

 Brant Oliver is a healthcare improvement and implementation scientist, educator, and board-certified family and psychiatric nurse practitioner (FNP-BC, PMHNP-BC). Dr. Oliver's work focuses on applied healthcare improvement science research with a focus on "3C" (complex, costly, and chronic) conditions including MS, IBD, CF, RA and others, coproduction, learning health systems, and shared decision making (SDM). He has been in clinical practice since 2003, working primarily as a certified MS specialist (MSCN) and a MS neurobehavioral nurse practitioner.

Dr. Oliver holds faculty appointments at Dartmouth, VA Quality Scholars (VAQS), and the MGH Institute of Health Professions School of Nursing. 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. He teaches graduate students, residents and post-doctoral fellows in improvement science, methodology, measurement, and analytics.
 

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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.

PH 126:

Statistical Measurement and Analysis for Healthcare Quality Improvement (elective)

(1 unit)

This course explores the history, theory, and application of Statistical Process Control (SPC) in health care improvement. Topics include development of measures; data collection; graphical display of data; the selection and generation of SPC analyses for continuous measures, proportions, counts and rare events; for both longitudinal and cross-sectional analyses. Benchmarking, organizational approaches, and multicenter collaborative approaches to improvement measurement are discussed and research study designs for improvement and implementation science are explored. The course emphasizes application of theories and principles through the use of case studies based on ongoing work in the field, individual and small group exercises and interactive discussions with guest presenters. Individual lab exercises, a small group project and an in class final exam are required elements of the course.

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Dr. Oliver is principal investigator of the first multi-center improvement science research collaborative for multiple sclerosis (MS-CQI), and the new Next Generation Learning Health System for Multiple Sclerosis multi-center research collaborative (Next-Gen MS), 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 is also PI of CO-VALUE, an ICoHN study developing an assessment model for coproduction value creation in an international community of practice that he co-leads with visionary improvement scholar Dr. Paul Batalden and includes participation of health systems in the United States, United Kingdom, Israel, and Sweden.

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