Dr. Jeannine M. Brant is an oncology clinical nurse specialist, pain consultant, and nurse scientist for Billings Clinic in Montana. Her repertoire blends her clinical expertise in pain and symptom management with her program of research on improving patient symptoms and nursing-sensitive indicators that lead to quality nursing and interdisciplinary care. Her current studies include investigating opioid-induced oversedation in hospitalized patients, testing a complex symptoms model, and investigating novel software to improve cancer survivorship care. She was recently a co-investigator on a study that examined pain care quality in 326 U.S. hospitals, as well as the influence of credentialing on quality outcomes (in press).

Brant is the editor for the ONS Standards of Oncology Nursing Practice and ONS Core Curriculum textbook and an associate editor for the Journal of Advanced Practitioners in Oncology. She is also an internationally recognized speaker who was recently appointed to an NCI Executive Committee to oversee palliative care in the Middle East. She serves as an adjunct faculty member for the University of Montana Geriatric Education Center, the University of Southern Indiana, and Montana College of Nursing, Bozeman. 

Brant earned her BSN from Montana State University, an MS in physiological nursing from the University of California, San Francisco and a PhD in cancer nursing from the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.