In this episode of Ascend Radio, Jimi Bush, Director of Quality and Engagement at the Washington Medical Commission (WMC), sits down with Ascend Editor-in-Chief Paul Leavoy for a wide-ranging discussion on her work with the agency and the function of research in the regulatory space more broadly. Their one-hour conversation touches on topics including:

• The WMC’s mission to find meaningful information within agency datasets.
• The commission’s key findings across years of harvesting and interpreting regulatory data.
• How Bush and her team routinely collect and analyze data to drive improved regulatory outcomes.
• Advice for small- to medium-sized regulators looking to undertake research projects of their own.
• The value of tactical social media use to promote stakeholder engagement, and more.

To learn more about Bush’s work as a research leader for the WMC, check out her 2020 paper in the Journal of Medical Regulation on health care worker burnout or listen to her podcast appearance on CLEAR’s Regulation Matters, in which she discusses recidivism among licensees who have received disciplinary measures.

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