Leticia Castillo, MD

Professor
Endowed Title: Thomas Fariss Marsh Jr. Chair in Pediatrics
Pediatrics

Contact Information

UT Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Boulevard
Dallas, Texas 75390

leticia4.castillo@utsouthwestern.edu

To make an appointment, call 214-730-KIDS (5437).

Education

FellowshipShriners Hospital for Children-Boston (1995)
FellowshipMassachuesetts Institute of Technology (1991)
FellowshipMassachusetts General Hospital (1989)
ResidencyTufts Medical Center - GME (1987)
ResidencyNational Institute of Pediatrics (1979)
Medical SchoolUniversidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (1976)

Research Interests

Human nutrition and metabolism under conditions of health and disease

Publications

Inflammatory response of sepsis and secondary hemophagocytic lymphocytic histiocytosis (HLH): same intermediate phenotype of inflammation?

Castillo L, Carcillo J , J. Pediatric Crit Care , 2009; (10):1-4

Continuous renal replacement therapy amino acid, trace metal and folate clearance in critically ill children.

Zappitelli M, Juarez M, Castillo L , Intensive Care Med , 2009; (DOI 10.1007/s00134-009-):1420-9

HLH/sepsis/SIRS/MODS/MAS.

Castillo, L , Pediatric Blood & Cancer , 2008; (51):710

Adaptation to a long term (4 weeks) arginine- and precursor (glutamate, proline and aspartate)-free diet.

Tharakan JF, Y-M Yu, D. Zurakowski, RM Roth, VR Young, L Castillo , Clinical Nutrition , 2008; (27):513-22

Bicarbonate kinetics and predicted energy expenditure in critically ill children.

Sy J, Gourishankar A, Gordon WE, Griffin D, Zurakowski D, Roth RM, Coss-Bu J, Jefferson L. Heird W. Castillo L , American Journal of Clinical Nutrition , 2008; (88):340-347

Honors/Awards

Ajinomoto Amino Acid Research Program

(2006)

Lynne M. Reid Fellowship, in memory of Robert and Violet Muir, Harvard Medical School

(1996)

American Lung Association Institutional Research Grant Award

(1991)

Society of Critical Care Lilly Fellowship

(1990)

Resident Award, National Institute of Pediatrics, Mexico City

(1979)

Professional Associations/Affiliations

American College of Critical Care Medicine

American Thoracic Society

European Society of Intensive Care Medicine

Human Proteomic Organization

Texas Medical Center Digestive Diseases Center