I practice evidence-based medicine.
Bring me the article you saved, the supplement your friend swears by, and I will look at it with you, honestly.
Meet the Founder
I am Dr. Daly.
A doctor by training. A mother by transformation.
Double board certified Internal Medicine & Pediatrics
01 · How I practice
Nine things I believe, in my own words.
If you come to me with a symptom, I want to find what is causing it.
The real answer is rarely in the first thing you say. It lives a few questions deeper.
I prioritize prevention.
I would rather catch something early, or prevent it altogether, than chase it later.
I am a minimalist with medication.
I will not prescribe what you do not need, and when you do, I will explain exactly why.
I believe lifestyle is medicine.
Food, sleep, movement, stress, relationships, sun, joy. We will talk about all of it.
I believe in cultural humility.
Your background, your beliefs, and your lived experience all belong in your care plan.
I believe in continuity.
Knowing you over time is how I catch what a single visit never could.
I believe in unhurried visits.
I am going to ask, and I am going to listen.
I believe in compassion, never judgment.
I have skipped my own workout, eaten the cake, and gone to bed far too late. We are all working on it.
02 · The origin
New York directness, Southern warmth, and a life in between.
I am the daughter of immigrants who sacrificed everything so I could become the first doctor in our family.
My parents came from Bangladesh and built their life on hard work, education, and faith. I was born and raised in New York City. Through traveling, I met my husband, strangers seated at the same table on the first night of a cruise ship called Destiny. I was a dog mom first, to our goldendoodle Scheyer. Then came my son and daughter, eighteen months apart, who have taught me more about caring for human beings than medical school ever did.
I was trained in modern medicine and raised on the naturopathic care, holistic lifestyle, and culinary medicine that generations of Bengali women in my family practiced long before any of it had a name. And like you, I am a working mom in the throes of the small-children years, doing my best to make medicine feel like medicine again.
02 · The women who built me
Four women shaped the way I care.
Choose a portrait to read how each one still shows up in the way I practice.
Jhuma · My mother
She taught me to take up space.
Jhūma means “dancing mother” in Bengali, and my mother has always lived that way. She is a software engineer with an artist’s energy. She spoke openly with me about my body and health, taught me never to make myself smaller, and gave me the confidence I now want every woman in my care to feel. That is why this practice bears her name.
Dadimoni · My paternal grandmother
She taught me to ask one more question.
Dadimoni gave me my name. She lived with diabetes and walked for hours each day before I understood those laps were medicine. She kept homeopathic remedies at home and insulin in her purse, using both without seeing a conflict. Even with limited English, she connected with everyone. From her, I learned to ask why, listen closely, and stay curious about the person in front of me.
Nani · My maternal grandmother
She made the kitchen part of the care plan.
Nani treated the kitchen like a pharmacy. She knew which fruit soothed skin, which spice settled a stomach, and which small habits built health over time. She taught me to care for my body with attention and consistency. I think of her whenever I remind a patient that the kitchen matters as much as the medicine cabinet.
Bev · My mother-in-law
She showed me how to care for the mother, too.
Bev felt like a hug from the day we met. A lactation consultant and perinatal and postpartum nurse for forty years, she deepened my love for women’s health and breastfeeding care. She cheered me through every board exam and every postpartum night of my own. Part of the doctor I became grew from her belief in me.
03 · Who I care for
I chose both, because I could not give up either.
Pediatrics is where my joy lives, caring for babies and laying the foundation of a healthy life from day one. Internal Medicine is where my mind lives, thinking through the complexity of caring for a woman across every decade.
Together, that dual training means your whole family in one trusted relationship. I am your children’s doctor from newborn to teenager, and your doctor through every season of womanhood, from your first period through postpartum, perimenopause, and menopause.
- Two specialties
- Internal Medicine & Pediatrics
- Four years
- Combined Med-Peds residency training
- One physician
- For your whole family
One doctor. One trusted relationship. Your whole family, under one roof.
04 · On paper & beyond
Board-certified in two specialties. Still a whole person.
On paper
Dr. Shaoleen Khaled Daly, MD
Everything above is the real story. This is the version that goes in a file.
Education & training
- Undergraduate
- Brandeis University
- Medical school
- St. George’s University School of Medicine
- Residency
- Combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, East Carolina University / ECU Health Medical Center
Certification & licensure
- Board certification
- American Board of Internal Medicine · American Board of Pediatrics
- Licensure
- North Carolina · New York
- Languages
- English · Bengali
Focus & affiliations
- Memberships
- American Academy of Pediatrics · American College of Physicians
- Special focus
- Newborn care, women’s health, and postpartum medicine
Selected publications and presentations
- Transitioning the Obese Pediatric Patient to an Adult Health Care Model, presented at ECU Grand Rounds, the North Carolina Pediatric Society, the VCOM National Rural Medicine Conference, and the Eastern AHEC Rural Health Symposium, 2020–2024
- I Like Big Brains and I Cannot Lie, Ray E. Helfer Society Annual Meeting, 2022
- Occipital neuralgia case series and prevalence research presented at the American Academy of Neurology and American Headache Society, 2018–2019
- A Center of Their Own, Rediscoveries: Reconciling Personal Narratives in Community Building, 2015
Outside the white coat
I am a whole person, and I would rather you know me.
- Drink order
- Iced chai by day, espresso martini by night.
- Ice cream order
- Jeni’s Brambleberry Crisp, and I will not be taking questions.
- A Saturday in Lake Norman
- The Davidson farmers market, then the water, then home before anyone melts down.
- Can’t live without
- Cholula. I put it on everything.
- Mom hack I swear by
- Flossing in the carpool line.
- Countries visited
- 35 and counting.
My home team
My village.
The people who raised me, cheer me on, and bring me home.
For you
You spend a lot of time caring for everyone else.
Here, the music is finally yours.
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