Fauzia Shakeel MD CPHQ FAAP

Summary

• Dr. Fauzia Shakeel is a neonatologist and Associate Professor based in Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg, FL. She completed her fellowship in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine and residency in Pediatrics at Virginia Commonwealth University Health System. Dr. Shakeel has expertise in neonatal nutrition and patient quality and safety. She is also the medical director of the Intestinal Rehabilitation program at Johns Hopkins All Children's and chairman of nutrition committee for the hospital. Dr. Shakeel have the expertise, leadership and experience to oversee implementation of several nutritional and quality initiatives. She has successfully completed and presented initiatives for standardizing enteral feeding guidelines and total parenteral nutrition standardization to reduce error in preterm infants both an institution-wide and a national level, including collaborative to reduce harm from IV infiltrates in the NICU and in the statewide Florida Perinatal Quality Collaborative and Vermont Oxford network. Her published articles, include improving outcomes in post-op surgical patients by standardizing feeding guidelines, improving care by tracheostomy team, tumor lysis syndrome in premature infants, and biomarkers of neonatal intestinal injury along with several quality improvement initiatives. Her work has been cited multiple times in various medical journals.