Dr. Heather Nelson-Brantley will present “Advancing Health Care through Nursing Leadership and Implementation Science.”

Heather Nelson-Brantley, PhD, RN, NEA‐BC, is an Associate Professor and Director of the Nurse Executive DNP Pathway at the School of Nursing, and an Associate Professor in the Heersink School of Medicine Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).

She is nationally recognized for her contributions to nursing leadership and implementation science. She employs qualitative, quantitative, mixed methods, and implementation science approaches to improve the adoption, implementation, and sustainability of evidence-based interventions, innovations, and policy.

Dr. Nelson-Brantley is President-Elect of the Association for Leadership Science in Nursing (ALSN), a Training Institute for Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (TIDIRH) Scholar, and Betty Irene Moore Nurse Leaders and Innovators Fellow. Currently, Dr. Nelson-Brantley is leading research to understand how to support palliative care clinicians and minoritized persons with cancer through implementation of the 21st Century Cures Act Information Blocking Rule.

She has authored over 40 peer-reviewed publications and 50 presentations in the fields of nursing leadership, implementation science, cancer care, and rural health. Dr. Nelson-Brantley also serves on the Editorial Board for the Journal of Nursing Administration.

An application for CE credits has been submitted and approved for ABN: 1.2

• In-person attendees must bring their ABN nursing license to scan.
• Zoom attendees must pre-register before the presentation begins.