Diego Castrillon, M.D., Ph.D.

Biography

Diego H. Castrillón, M.D., Ph.D., holds the Vernie A. Stembridge, M.D., Distinguished Chair in the Department of Pathology and is a Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at UT Southwestern Medical Center. He specializes in gynecologic pathology.

Dr. Castrillón earned his doctoral degree in genetics and development and his medical degree as part of the Medical Scientist Training Program at UT Southwestern. He completed a residency in anatomic pathology and a clinical fellowship in gynecologic and obstetric pathology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. He also completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in cancer genetics at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute at Harvard Medical School. He earned his bachelor’s degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Board certified in anatomic pathology, he joined the UT Southwestern faculty in 2003. Dr. Castrillón serves as Director of Investigative Pathology for the Department of Pathology and is a member of the UT Southwestern Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Cecil H. and Ida Green Center for Reproductive Biology Sciences.

He is an elected Fellow of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the American Association for the Advancement of Science Section on Medical Sciences. He is also a member of the American Association for Cancer Research, the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, the European Society of Gynaecological Oncology, the International Society of Gynecological Pathologists, the European Society for Medical Oncology, and the European Society of Pathology.

His clinical interests include pathologic diagnosis of obstetric and gynecologic disease with a focus on endometrial (uterine) cancer and precancer. He also directs the Castrillón research laboratory, which is devoted to the study of endometrial cancer. He has developed a number of new approaches and model systems to diagnose and study this common yet understudied malignancy.

Dr. Castrillón has delivered many presentations, contributed to the books New-opathies: An Emerging Molecular Reclassification of Human Disease and Gynecologic and Obstetric Pathology, and published more than 100 academic articles related to his areas of expertise. He is a consulting editor for the Journal of Clinical Investigation and the International Journal of Gynecologic Pathology and an ad hoc reviewer for numerous other scholarly journals. He also holds five patents.

Personal Note

When he’s not working, Dr. Castrillón enjoys traveling and spending time with his family.