Overview
Bryan is the Director of the Duke Center for the Advancement of Well-being Science. He leads the efforts around research, training and coaching, guiding quality improvement and well-being activities.
A psychologist member of the Department of Psychiatry, Bryan is a psychometrician and spends time developing methods of assessing and improving safety culture, teamwork, leadership and especially work-force well-being. Currently, he is disseminating the results from a successful NIH R01 grant that used RCTs to show that we can cause enduring improvements in healthcare worker well-being.
A perpetually recovering father of four, he enjoys running, using hand tools on wood, books on Audible, and hearing particularly good explanations of extremely complicated topics.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Recent Publications
Bite-sized self-compassion: a pilot cohort study of a well-being tool for healthcare workers.
Journal Article Scientific reports · August 2025 Healthcare worker (HCW) well-being is an urgent priority in the wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Poor worker well-being has been linked to greater turnover, lower quality of care, and higher patient safety risks. Brief, simple tools to increase HCW well-bein ... Full text Cite"WISER" intervention to reduce healthcare worker burnout - 1 year follow up.
Journal Article Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · December 2024 ObjectiveTest sustainability of Web-based Implementation for the Science of Enhancing Resilience (WISER) intervention efficacy in reducing healthcare worker (HCW) emotional exhaustion (EE), a key component of burnout.DesignOne-year follow ... Full text CiteWell-Being Outcomes of Health Care Workers After a 5-Hour Continuing Education Intervention: The WELL-B Randomized Clinical Trial.
Journal Article JAMA network open · September 2024 ImportanceCompromised well-being in health care workers (HCWs) is detrimental to the workforce, organizations, and patients.ObjectiveTo test the effectiveness of Well-Being Essentials for Learning Life-Balance (WELL-B), a web-based contin ... Full text CiteRecent Grants
Duke Well-being Essentials Program for the Current and Future Health Workforce
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Health Resources and Service Administration · 2022 - 2025The WISER NICU Study
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Stanford University · 2015 - 2020Implementation of a Safety Program in Guatemala
ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2018 - 2020View All Grants