Dr. Shaikh leads patient safety education for UC Davis Health’s graduate medical education program, developing and guiding clinical training for approximately 900 residents, fellows and their supervising clinicians in systems thinking, root cause analysis and data-driven care. She is the founding chair of the UC Davis Health annual quality forum, now in its 16th year, and leads the UC Davis Health quality improvement training program, now in its 10th year. As clinical quality officer for the California Department of Health Care Services, she previously led a high-impact statewide pay-for-performance program that strengthened data-driven oversight of care for millions of Medicaid members. Dr. Shaikh chairs the American Academy of Pediatrics’ council on quality improvement and patient safety, and also serves on the board of the International Society for Quality in Healthcare, leading the organization’s North America community of practice. She has also served as an associate editor for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s Patient Safety Network, authoring widely used primers on national patient safety goals and root cause analysis. In recognition of her leadership, she received the American Board of Pediatrics’ “Paul V. Miles Award.”
