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
"WISER" intervention to reduce healthcare worker burnout - 1 year follow up.
Journal Article J Perinatol · December 2024 OBJECTIVE: Test 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. DESIGN: One-year follow-up of WISER ... Full text Link to item CiteWell-Being Outcomes of Health Care Workers After a 5-Hour Continuing Education Intervention: The WELL-B Randomized Clinical Trial.
Journal Article JAMA Netw Open · September 3, 2024 IMPORTANCE: Compromised well-being in health care workers (HCWs) is detrimental to the workforce, organizations, and patients. OBJECTIVE: To test the effectiveness of Well-Being Essentials for Learning Life-Balance (WELL-B), a web-based continuing educatio ... Full text Link to item CiteSelf-compassion letter tool for healthcare worker well-being: a qualitative descriptive analysis.
Journal Article BMJ Open · April 5, 2024 OBJECTIVE: This qualitative study aimed to identify categories within therapeutic self-compassion letters written by healthcare workers. Resulting categories were assessed for their relevance to the construct of self-compassion. DESIGN: This was a qualitat ... Full text Open Access Link to item 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