Dr. Eugene C. Nelson
Eugene C. Nelson is the Director of Population Health Measurement and Co-Director of the Coproduction Laboratory at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice (TDI) at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. In addition, Dr. Nelson serves as a professor of community and family medicine and a senior faculty member. He was Director of Quality Education, Measurement, and Research for the Dartmouth Hitchcock Health System for over 15 years.
Professor Nelson is a national leader in healthcare improvement and the development and application of measures of quality, system performance, health outcomes, value, and patient perceptions. His current work focuses on using patient-centered registries to develop learning health systems capable of producing improved health care and innovative science.
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 the author of two 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.
