Dr. Aaron Shaw, Pediatric Infectious Disease

Dr. Aaron J. Shaw is a board-certified pediatric infectious diseases specialist at CHOC Children’s Hospital. He provides expert clinical care for children with complex infections, including respiratory illnesses, osteoarticular infections, and diseases in immunocompromised patients. Beyond his clinical practice, Dr. Shaw is a leader in hospital quality and safety, leading the division in Quality Improvement projects and serving on the Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention committees. His professional interests also include surgical site infections and medical informatics, where he helps bridge the gap between clinical specialty needs and information technology. He has contributed to peer-reviewed literature and book chapters on pediatric otolaryngology amongst other topics. He is an active educator on the team helping provide lectures to medical students, residents and fellows on the team.

Locations

CHOC Specialists, Infectious Disease
1201 W. La Veta Ave.
Orange, CA 92868
phone: 714-509-8403
fax: 714-509-4014

CHOC Health Center – Mission Viejo
26691 Plaza Suite 130
Mission Viejo, CA 92691

Education

• Medical School
  University of Tennessee College of Medicine, Memphis, TN
• Residency
  University of Tennessee College of Medicine, Memphis, TN
• Fellowship, 
  Children’s Mercy Hospital

Academic Appointments

• HS Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Pediatrics
  University of California, Irvine School of Medicine

Administrative Appointments

• Infectious Diseases CHOC Specialists
• Infection Prevention, CHOC

Professional Organizations/Editorial Boards

• Infectious Diseases Society of America
• Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society
• American Academy of Pediatrics

Honors and Awards

• Shining Star Award, Children’s Mercy Hospital

Recent Reseatch Publications

Lee A. Tran T, Liu C, Capparelli E, Phal S, Enriquez C, Osborne S, Strickland J, Cohen-Wolkowiez M, Hornik C.D., Ashouri N. Nieves D, Shaw A, Singh J, Arrieta A.  Population pharmacokinetics and safety of continuous oxacillin in preterm and term neoanates and infants. Oral presentation at the 43rd  Annual meeting of European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases (ESPID). May 26-30, 2025. Bucharest, Romania

Shaw A, Lee B, Kazmaier L, Baker R, Dao T, Arnold S, Myers A.  Stewardship Opportunities for Cervical Lymphadenitis and Deep Neck Space Infections.  IDWeek™ 2022, Washington, DC, October 19-23, 2022.  Poster Presentation

Shaw AJ, Lee BR, Kazmaier LE, Myers A. Antibiotic Usage in Lymphadenitis and Deep Neck Space Infections at a Children’s Hospital. 12th Annual International Pediatric Antimicrobial Stewardship Conference, June 2022.

Shaw AJ, Lee BR, Kazmaier LE, Myers A. Diagnosis, Management, and Treatment of Lymphadenitis and Deep Neck Space Infections at a Children’s Hospital. Children’s Mercy Hospital Graduate Education Research Days, May 2022.

Shaw AJ, Kanwar N, Selvarangan R.  Comparison of nasal swab and saliva specimen for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 in children.  Children’s Mercy Hospital Graduate Education Research Days, Virtual, May 10-15, 2021.  e-poster

Scott WJ, Shaw AJ, Ferguson-Paul KD. Case Report of a Perinephric Abscess in a Child with Diabetes Mellitus: A Rare Manifestation of GBS. SSPR Southern Regional Meeting 2020/Poster Presentation. New Orleans, LA, February 2020.

Shaw AJ, Saravia J, You D, Cormier SA. Age Dependent Differences in Naïve CD4 T-Cells Polarization. Le Bonheur Pediatric Research Fair/ Poster Presentation. Memphis, TN, 2014.

Publications

Huang H, Saravia J, You D, Shaw AJ, Cormier SA. Impaired gamma delta T cell-derived IL-17A and inflammasome activation during early respiratory syncytial virus infection in infants.  Immunol Cell Biol. 2015 Feb;93(2):126-35.  PMID:  25267484

Shaw AJ, Julian J. “What’s the diagnosis? Primary amebic meningoencephalitis”. The LINK Newsletter. Volume 14, Issue 12, December 2022.

Book Chapters

Arnold S, Bettin K, Shaw AJ. Antibiotics in ENT infections in Thompson, J Pediatric Otolaryngology: A Concise Reference, Cambridge, 2020