Matthew Haden MD, MPH, MBA
Dr. Haden completed 18 months of residency training at Georgetown/Providence Hospital in Washington, DC before transferring to the Mayo Clinic Arizona, where he completed his specialty training in Family Medicine.
He is board certified in Family Medicine and has worked for several years in urgent care and primary care. While working as a doctor, he also went to business school and obtained his MBA to help in his entrepreneurial endeavors. He was the founder and CEO of MobileMDs, an on-demand service for doctor’s house calls serving travelers at hotels and resorts across the US. After several years of growing that business, he decided to return his focus to primary care, and restoring the doctor-patient relationship through Direct Primary Care (DPC). He founded MODERN Mobile Medicine, the first house call DPC practice.
Dr. Haden has traveled extensively and even lived abroad for a time in Egypt and Costa Rica. Over the past 20+ years, he has enjoyed the opportunity to visit Rome, Casablanca, Malta, Gibraltar, Montreal, Ottawa, several parts of India, Nepal, Mexico, Trinidad, and the Dominican Republic. These experiences have helped him to better understand how one’s culture can influence health and the treatment preferences of patients. Dr. Haden enjoys working out, visiting family, drinking coffee, playing the drums, driving his electric car, and spending quality time with his wife, daughter and son. He was selected as a 2015-2016 Fellow of the Leonine Forum at the Catholic Information Center in Washington, DC and has volunteered with the Order of Malta Federal Association Auxiliary.
PHILOSOPHY OF CARE
Dr. Haden practices in accordance with the principles of the Hippocratic Oath. This guides physicians in the care we provide as we seek to “first, do no harm,” by respecting the normal physiology of the human body, restoring health based on the best science available, and protecting the privacy of our patients. He will use medicines when appropriate to manage illness and disease, but not to override normal healthy bodily functions.
Through education and appropriate treatment, we will work with you to maximize your health and well-being. The human body has an amazing ability to heal and/or adapt to illness and disease. The physician's role is to cooperate with that healing using medical science, not to hijack normal healthy physiology or put the patient at risk with unwarranted prescriptions and treatments. The first line of treatment for most non-infectious conditions is lifestyle modification.
For example, this means no Z-paks for colds, no overriding normal fertility with artificial contraception or sterilization (your fertility is not a disease!), no excess hormone supplementation, and no chronic opioids. Instead, together you will map out a plan with your doctor to get you healthy and keep you healthy.
We happily collaborate with your practitioners with other expertise, such as physical therapists, massage therapists, psychologists, health coaches, personal trainers, acupuncturists, nutritionists, and medical sub-specialists when needed. You can find some of our patients’ recommendations HERE.