FauziaShakeelMDCPHQ FAAP

Summary

• Dr. Fauzia Shakeel is a neonatologist and perinatologist based in Saint Petersburg, FL. She completed her fellowship in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine and residency in Pediatrics at Virginia Commonwealth University Health System, following her graduation from Dow University of Health Sciences in 1988. Her clinical focus is nutritional care for neonates to improve clinical outcomes in NICU. She is chairman of hospital wide nutrition sub-committee at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital (JHACH) and leads various efforts to improve clinical outcomes in neonates including standardizing enteral nutritional care, parenteral management in preterm infants to reduce errors and optimizing post-operative nutritional management in surgical infants.
  Strong advocate for Patient Safety and Quality: Physician Advisor for Maintenance of certification (MOC Pat 4) American Board of Pediatrics for all JHACH faculty. Lead faculty for resident quality elective rotation for JHACH and University of south Florida (USF). Physician champion for several quality improvement initiatives at local and regional level. Actively participate in regional quality improvement efforts with Florida perinatal quality collaborative (FPQC) and with Vermont oxford network (VON) along with children’s Hospital network Consortium (CHNC)- Gastroschisis focus group.
  She is Chairman Patient Safety and Quality Council for Maternal, Fetal & Neonatal Institute at JHACH. She leads the Intestinal Rehabilitation Program (C: Care, U: Under: I: Intestinal, R: Rehabilitation, E: Excellence) at JHACH to improve outcomes with patients with short bowel syndrome and intestinal failure. Her research contributions include publications on topics such as NICU tracheostomy teams, tumor lysis syndrome in premature infants, and novel biomarkers for neonatal intestinal injury, appearing in journals like the Journal of Perinatology and BMC Pediatrics. Her work has been recognized and cited multiple times in the medical community.