Jeffrey Kahn, M.D., Ph.D. Titles and Appointments Chief, Division of Pediatric Infectious Disease Professor & Division Chief Endowed Title Sarah M. and Charles E. Seay Chair in Pediatric Infectious Diseases Schools Medical School | Graduate School Departments Pediatrics | Microbiology Graduate Programs Molecular Microbiology You have reached the Academic Profile. For more information on the doctor and patient care, please visit the clinical profile. Biography Jeffrey S. Kahn, M.D., Ph.D. received his Bachelor of Science degree in Microbiology and Immunology from McGill University. He received his M.D. and a Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology from the State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn. Dr. Kahn completed his internship, residency and chief residency in Pediatrics at Yale University and the Children’s Hospital at Yale-New Haven Hospital. Dr. Kahn stayed at Yale University to complete training in Pediatric Infectious Diseases. Thereafter, he joined the faculty at Yale University in the Department of Pediatrics in the Division of Infectious Diseases. He joined the faculty of UT Southwestern Medical Center in 2009. Dr. Kahn’s research efforts have been focused human respiratory viruses, including respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and new emerging human viruses. His laboratory was the first or among the first laboratories in the United States to describe the epidemiology and clinical manifestations of several newly identified viruses including human metapneumovirus, coronaviruses NL63 and HKU1, human bocavirus and polyomavirus WUV. His laboratory has described the molecular epidemiology of RSV and has characterized the glycoprotein sequences, completed phylogenetic analyses and defined the biological properties (e.g. induction of cytokines and chemokines) and induced gene expression profiles (using RNA-SEQ) of many of these RSV strains in primary human cells. Dr. Kahn’s current research efforts are focuses on mapping RSV phenotypes in the viral genome. Dr. Kahn is the Director of the Pediatric Infectious Disease and the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program at UT Southwestern Medical Center and the Director of Infectious Diseases at Children’s Medical Center. Dr. Kahn is the Medical Director of Research at Children’s Medical Center. Education Medical School SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn College of Medicine (1991) Residency Yale-New Haven Hospital (1994), Pediatrics Chief Resident Yale-New Haven Hospital (1995), Pediatrics Fellowship Yale University School of Medicine (1998), Pediatric Infectious Diseases Research Interest Cellular responses to RSV infection Emerging pathogens Recombinant negative stand RNA viruses Respiratory syncytial virus Publications Optical Nanobubble Amplification Enables Compartment- and Enzyme-Free Digital Attomolar Protein Absolute Quantification Zhang T, Gao Y, Liu Y, Zhang Y, Huynh HD, Chen J, Xie C, Ye H, Ge X, Kahn JS, Qin Z Nano Letters 2025 Nov 25 16443-16450 Gastrointestinal Manifestations Are Associated with Severe COVID-19 in Children Akkoyun EB, Ashraf B, Hanners N, Kahn J, Most Z Healthcare (Switzerland) 2024 Jan 12 Persistent symptoms and conditions among children and adolescents hospitalised with COVID-19 illness: A qualitative study Messiah SE, Francis J, Weerakoon S, Mathew MS, Shaikh S, Veeraswamy A, Lozano A, He W, Xie L, Polavarapu D, Ahmed N, Kahn J BMJ Open 2023 Sep 13 Gold Nanourchins Improve Virus Targeting and Plasmonic Coupling for Virus Diagnosis on a Smartphone Platform Liu Y, Ye H, Bayram A, Zhang T, Cai Q, Xie C, Huynh HD, Peerzade SA, Kahn JS, Qin Z ACS Sensors 2022 Dec 7 3741-3752 Digital plasmonic nanobubble detection for rapid and ultrasensitive virus diagnostics Liu Y, Ye H, Huynh HD, Xie C, Kang P, Kahn JS, Qin Z Nature communications 2022 Dec 13 Comparison of Long-Term Complications of COVID-19 Illness among a Diverse Sample of Children by MIS-C Status Messiah SE, Xie L, Mathew MS, Shaikh S, Veeraswamy A, Rabi A, Francis J, Lozano A, Ronquillo C, Sanchez V, He W, Weerakoon SM, Srikanth N, Borel M, Kapera O, Kahn J International journal of environmental research and public health 2022 Oct 19 Long-term physical, mental and social health effects of COVID-19 in the pediatric population: a scoping review Borel M, Xie L, Kapera O, Mihalcea A, Kahn J, Messiah SE World Journal of Pediatrics 2022 Mar 18 149-159 mTOR kinase is a therapeutic target for respiratory syncytial virus and coronaviruses Huynh HD, Levitz R, Huang R, Kahn JS Scientific reports 2021 Dec 11 Results of COVID-19 surveillance in a large United States pediatric healthcare system over one year Messiah SE, Xie L, Mathew MS, Delclos GL, Kohl HW, Kahn JS Children 2021 Sep 8 Cardiac Modeling for Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C, PIMS-TS) Waugh R, Hussein MA, Weller J, Sharma K, Greil G, Kahn J, Hussain T, Chabiniok R 2021 435-446 Results 1-10 of 72 1 2 3 4 5 Next Last Books Featured Books Human Bocavirus: A Newly Discovered Human Parvovirus. In Scheld WM, Hooper DC, Hughes JM, eds. Emerging Infections 8. Kahn JS, Tattersall P. (2008). Washington, DC:ASM Press; 21-38. Honors & Awards Best Pediatric Specialists/Doctors in DallasD Magazine (2014-2018) Pediatric Chair’s Award, Yale University School of Medicine (2005) Mae Gailani Junior Faculty Award, Yale University School of Medicine (2002) Professional Associations/Affiliations American Academy of Pediatrics American Society of Microbiology (2001) American Society of Virology (2002) Infectious Diseases Society of America (2010) Society of Pediatric Research (2001)
