Check out Mapping Healthcare, a radio show and podcast produced and hosted by University of California Davis pediatrician and ISQua board member, Dr. Ulfat Shaikh. The podcast covers healthcare improvement efforts around the world and new episodes are released every two weeks.
Dr. Shaikh has been involved with youth media initiatives at Davis Media Access, a non-profit community media center in her hometown of Davis, California, for over a decade, advising a youth digital media club and then mentoring a youth-led community radio show. She served on the board of Davis Media Access to help advise its youth programs and after her board term came to a close, starting her own radio show there seemed like a great way of staying involved in media initiatives.
“In my work nationally and internationally as a pediatrician, educator, and researcher, I see the power of mass media in connecting people and shaping perspectives and attitudes about healthcare,” Shaikh said. "Radio and podcasts have been part of my own daily commute for decades and it’s a surreal feeling to now be on the other side."
Past episodes of Mapping Healthcare have covered a range of topics such as patient safety, patient-centered care, informatics, and technology in healthcare. Several episodes featured ISQua members and leaders. In episode 11 ISQua CEO Carsten Engel discussed Denmark's national patient safety incident reporting systems, one of the oldest such databases in the world. In episode 4, ISQua president Ezequiel García-Elorrio shared his experience with understanding patient experience in Argentina and the role of culture and context in quality measurement . Episode 9 spotlighted ISQua board honorary advisor Anna Edwards' journey as a person with a chronic condition in the United Kingdom and her efforts to ensure that health systems hear the voice of the patient. In episode 3 David Bates, past president of ISQua, highlighted tasks that artificial intelligence can help clinicians with and how this is changing the way health care is delivered in the United States.
All episodes of Mapping Healthcare are available online on the KDRT 95.7 FM website here. You can follow the show on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.
About Dr. Ulfat Shaikh
Dr. Ulfat Shaikh is Professor of Pediatrics and Medical Director of Healthcare Quality at the University of California Davis Health. She focuses on designing, implementing, and evaluating health systems improvement methods across a broad range of health care settings to improve health care delivery and outcomes.
She is the Chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics' Council on Quality Improvement and Patient Safety and is on the Board of Directors of the International Society for Quality in Healthcare. Dr. Shaikh was the Associate Editor of PSNet, a national web-based patient safety resource funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and previously served as Clinical Quality Officer at the California Department of Health Care Services.
At the University of California Davis, she has led over 500 clinicians in quality improvement and patient safety initiatives across departments. She was named an American Board of Pediatrics Paul V. Miles Fellow in recognition of her contributions to improving the quality of healthcare for children.
Dr. Shaikh has been a practicing pediatrician for 25 years and holds a Doctor of Medicine, master’s in public health, a master’s in clinical research, and is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics.