Shaheenah Dawood is a consultant medical oncologist and professor in Clinical Oncology in the United Arab Emirates with nearly 20 years of experience having worked in Canada, USA and UAE.

She was the head of the Medical Oncology program at the Dubai Health Authority for nearly a decade prior to moving to Mediclinic. She trained in Medical Oncology at McGill University Hospitals in Montreal, Canada, and then did the Susan Komen Breast Cancer fellowship at the MD Anderson Cancer Center. During her training she was awarded multiple scholar in training awards and ASCO merit awards. She has served as an editorial fellow at the New England Journal of Medicine and has a Masters of Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health. She has, in addition, graduated from the American Society of Clinical Oncology Society leadership development program from the USA.