Laveena Munshi is an Associate Professor Clinician Scientist and Critical Care Physician at Sinai Health System in the Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine at the University of Toronto. She has research interests in critical care of the immunocompromised and oncologic populations with a focus on acute respiratory failure. Furthermore, she studies the impact that a cancer diagnosis has on critical care outcomes, and the impact of critical illness on future oncology. She has been supported by a Canadian Institute for Health Research (CIHR) fellowship award and the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Canada. She currently holds a CIHR operating grant to evaluate subphenotypes of acute respiratory failure in the immunocompromised population. She is the co-founder of the Critical Care Oncologic Investigative Network – a local initiative established to improve quality of care between Oncology and Critical Care.