Lecturer, Jefferson College of Population Health

Brant Oliver is a nurse practitioner, healthcare improvement scientist, educator, and consultant.  Dr. Oliver’s interests include complex, chronic, costly (“3C”) conditions (including multiple sclerosis, inflammatory bowel disease, cystic fibrosis, and others), improvement sciences research, learning health systems, wellness in chronic illness, and healthcare service coproduction.  He is Associate Professor at the Geisel School of Medicine and the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH and a principal scientist (healthcare improvement science) for the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health (D-HH) system in New Hampshire. In addition, he serves as core national faculty for the VAQS and HPEER national fellowship programs in healthcare quality and safety for the Department of Veterans Affairs, and is an adjunct Associate Professor at the MGH Institute School of Nursing in Boston, MA. 

He is a dual-board certified nurse practitioner in family practice and psychiatry and has been in clinical practice since 2003. A majority of his clinical practice has been as a neurobehavioral specialist focusing on the care of cognitive and mental health problems in people with multiple sclerosis, most recently at the MS Specialty Care Program at Concord Hospital in Concord, NH.  Dr. Oliver has served as improvement faculty, research investigator or methodologist for multicenter large improvement collaboratives in the U.S., Canada, U.K., Sweden and Australia.  He is principal investigator of the MS Continuous Quality Improvement (MS-CQI) Collaborative— the first national multicenter improvement research collaborative for multiple sclerosis, the Next Generation Learning Health System for Multiple Sclerosis (Next-Gen MS) study and the ICoHN CO-VALUE study— an international multi-center mixed-methods study to develop and assess value creation of coproduced healthcare services in health systems.  Dr. Oliver’s most recent work includes the Chronic Health Improvement Research Program (CHIRP), an international research program which engages in collaborations in improvement, service, and research aimed at improving healthcare, health and wellness for people with 3C conditions.