Bio
Eugene Nelson is a professor of community and family medicine at The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. He serves as the director of Population Health and Measurement at The Dartmouth Institute and leads a program on new models to advance the coproduction of health care. Nelson is a national leader in health care improvement and the development and application of measures of quality, system performance, health outcomes, value, and patient perceptions. His current work is focused on using patient-centered registries to develop learning health systems capable of coproducing improved health care and innovative science. He leads a Dartmouth team that is conducting national proof of concept demonstration programs for several chronic disease populations including cystic fibrosis, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), and rheumatology.
In the early 1990’s, Nelson and his colleagues at Dartmouth began developing clinical microsystem thinking. His work developing the “clinical value compass” and “whole system measures” to assess health care system performance has made him a well-recognized quality and value measurement expert.
He is the recipient of The Joint Commission’s Ernest A. Codman award for his work on outcomes measurement in health care. Nelson has been a pioneer in bringing modern quality improvement thinking into the mainstream of health care; he helped launch the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and served as a founding board member. He has authored over 150 publications and is an author of two recent books: Quality by Design: A Clinical Microsystems Approach and Value by Design: Developing Clinical Microsystems to Achieve Organizational Excellence.
He received an AB from Dartmouth College, an MPH from Yale University, and a DSc from Harvard University.
Published Research
Perry LM, Morken V, Peipert JD, Yanez B, Garcia SF, Barnard C, Hirschhorn LR, Linder JA, Jordan N, Ackermann RT, Harris A, Kircher S, Mohindra N, Aggarwal V, Frazier R, Coughlin A, Bedjeti K, Weitzel M, Nelson EC, Elwyn G, Van Citters AD, O'Connor M, Cella D
JMIR Res Protoc|2022 Sep 21
Eliciting patients' healthcare goals and concerns: Do questions influence responses?
Scalia P, van Deen WK, Engel JA, Stevens G, Van Citters AD, Holthoff MM, Johnson LC, Kennedy AM, Reddy SB, Nelson EC, Elwyn G
Chronic Illn|2022 Sep
Prioritizing Measures That Matter Within a Person-Centered Oncology Learning Health System.
Van Citters AD, Kennedy AM, Kirkland KB, Dragnev KH, Leach SD, Buus-Frank ME, Malcolm EF, Holthoff MM, Holmes AB, Nelson EC, Reeves SA, Tosteson ANA, Promise Partnership Delphi Panel
JNCI Cancer Spectr|2022 May 2
Taxter A, Johnson L, Tabussi D, Kimura Y, Donaldson B, Lawson E, Del Gaizo V, Vitelli D, Pinter C, Van Citters A, Nelson E, Lee T
J Particip Med|2022 Apr 22
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic: How our response is shaping the future of cystic fibrosis care.
Sabadosa KA, Faro A, Nelson EC, Marshall BC
J Cyst Fibros|2021 Dec