Dr. Mustafa H. Kabeer, Pediatric and General Surgery, Thoracic Surgery

Dr. Mustafa Kabeer is a pediatric general and thoracic surgeon at Rady Children’s Health in Orange County, California. He was the first physician at CHOC to perform robotic surgery and the first in the world to perform robotic pediatric lung resection.  Dr. Kabeer is one of only a few surgeons in the region who performs minimally invasive pectus excavatum surgery, also known as the Nuss procedure and has developed a multidisciplinary group to help these patients and families.  His teams expertise led to developing a pain management protocol that changed a one week stay in the hospital to an outpatient procedure where most patients go home the same evening.  In addition to surgery for pectus excavatum, Dr. Kabeer’s clinical interests include neonatal surgery, perinatal counseling, pediatric laparoscopic surgery, and hernia surgery.

For over 20 years, Dr. Kabeer has been engaged in the research.  His accomplishments have ranged from demonstrating the use of autologous splenic lymphocyte reinfusion to augment vaccine efficacy against gram negative encapsulated organisms to showing the effectiveness of neuroblastoma tumor vaccines (in animal models).  Most recently, his lab has been pursuing development of patches with umbilical cord stem cells that can help regenerate missing tissues such as esophagus and diaphragm in children born with congenital defects.

Dedicated to clinical excellence, Dr. Kabeer is board certified in general surgery, pediatric surgery and surgical critical care. Prior to joining CHOC, Dr. Kabeer attended medical school at the University of Missouri, Columbia. He completed both his internship and his residency training at Indiana University and served his fellowship at the Children’s Hospital of Michigan.

CHOC Specialists, Pediatric Surgery
505 S Main Street, Suite 225
Orange, CA 92868
phone: 714-364-4050
fax: 714-364-4051