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4 reviews
September 6, 2025
All staff, we're courteous kind, an efficient doctor golden, is one of the best doctors. I've ever seen. I've been with him for 20 years. He is awesome
June 6, 2025
Dr. Golden was great at responding to all my questions and concerns
February 10, 2025
I highly recommend Dr. Matthew Golden. He's very professional, respectful and kind . He is an excellent doctor and I'm very happy to have him as my physician .
October 25, 2024
Doc Golden is a great individual Dr. Golden is a person who pays all his attention to your ailments or health concerns.
About Matthew R. Golden
Matthew Golden, M.D., M.P.H., is a board certified physician at the Madison and Seattle & King County STD Public Health Clinics at Harborview and a UW professor of Medicine and Allergy and Infectious Diseases and an adjunct professor of Epidemiology. He is also the director of the Public Health — Seattle & King County HIV/STD Program.
Over the course of his medical career, Dr. Golen has seen HIV change from an untreatable, often fatal infectious disease to a medical problem that shouldn’t have to kill anyone. Witnessing that change has been an extraordinary privilege.
Dr. Golden earned his M.D. and M.P.H. at Johns Hopkins. His primary clinical interests are in the treatment of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. Dr. Golden’s research focuses on the public health efforts to prevent and control HIV and other sexually transmitted infections.
Education and Training
John Hopkins University SOM
Medical education, 1994
John Hopkins School of Hygiene & Public Health
Master, 1994
UW - Infectious Diseases
Fellowship, Infectious Diseases
UW - Division of General Internal Medicine
Residency, Internal Medicine
UW - Division of General Internal Medicine
Internship, Internal Medicine
Board Certifications
Infectious Disease, 2001, American Board of Internal Medicine
Internal Medicine, 1997, American Board of Internal Medicine