Dr. Shakeel is an Assistant Professor and board-certified pediatric hematologist/oncologist in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Hematology-Oncology at Baylor College of Medicine and provides clinical care at Texas Children’s Hospital. Throughout his training, families often asked him what might have caused their child’s cancer and how they could reduce the risk of future health problems. As a result, he became interested in environmental exposures on the development and outcomes of pediatric cancers. Currently, Dr. Shakeel leads physician seeing patients in the Long-Term Survivor clinic at Texas Children’s Hematology and Cancer Center and serves on the Scientific Advisory Council for the Childhood Cancer Prevention Consortium. He is also part of the Childhood Cancer and the Environment Program, a national program of the Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units. His clinical expertise and research focus on integrating environmental health into pediatric cancer care and improving long-term outcomes.