Dr. Matthew M. Zahn, Pediatric Infectious Disease
Matthew Zahn, MD
is on staff at
CHOC Hospital Orange
Specialty:
Board Certified:
Infectious Disease Referrals
Physicians can refer patients to CHOC through our eCeptionist Referral Portal.
Dr. Zahn is a physician who treats kids and teens in Orange County and specializes in infectious disease.
Locations
CHOC Specialists, Infectious Disease
1201 W La Veta Ave
Orange, CA 92868
phone: 714-509-8403
fax: 714-509-4014
Education
- Medical School
St Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO - Pediatric Infectious Disease Fellowship
Children’s Hospital of Colorado, Aurora, CO - Pediatrics Residency
Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center, St. Louis, MO
Administrative Appointments
- Infectious Disease, CHOC Specialists
Lectures and Presentations
- Epidemiology in Public Health Practice
- Foodborne Illness: What you really shouldn’t have eaten over the holidays
- H1N1 Review
Professional Organizations
- American Academy of Pediatrics
- Infectious Diseases Society of America
- Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society of America
Publications
Zahn, M., Hesson, M., Morton, R., Wheat, L.J.: Empyema Caused by Histoplasmosis in a Healthy Child. Pediatric Pulmonology 46:7298-31, 2011.
Swartzentruber, S., Rhodes, L., Kurkjian, K., Zahn, M., Brandt, M.E., Connolly, P., Wheat, L.J.: Diagnosis of acute pulmonary histoplasmosis by antigen detection. CLinical Infectious Disease Journal 46:1878-82, 2009.
Das, B.B., Wasser, E., Bryant, K.A., Woods, C.R., Yang, S., Zahn, M.: Culture negative endocarditis caused by Bartonella henslae in a child with congenital heart disease. Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal 28:922-5, 2009.
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Early Intervention For Life-Threatening Conditions
- Infectious diseases (including multi-resistant bacteria)
- Congenital and perinatal infections, including HIV
- Opportunistic infections in the immunocompromised patient
- Respiratory, viral and fungal infections
- Immunocompromised host
- Community outbreaks
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Outpatient Management for Chronic Conditions
- HIV – an accredited program serving the greater Orange County area
- Recurrent/periodic fever or fever of unknown origin
- Tuberculosis and other chronic infections
- Coccidiomycosis and other endemic fungal infections
- Travel medicine for children
- Infections in primary immune deficiencies
- Viral hepatitis