Laila Castellino, M.D.
Assistant Professor

Dr. Castellino is originally from India and received her initial medical training at Grant Medical College in Mumbai, India where she was drawn to the field of infectious diseases by the wide pathology of infections, especially in the face of a mounting HIV epidemic in India. She subsequently moved to New York City to complete a residency in internal medicine, followed by fellowship training in infectious diseases at Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center. She joined the UT Southwestern faculty in 2019.

Prior to joining UT Southwestern, Dr. Castellino served as Chief of Infectious Diseases at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Dayton, Ohio, where her work encompassed clinical health care, administration, and health care epidemiology. She successfully initiated several programs to improve patient access to care, including telehealth care, decreasing wait times and decreasing costs of care. She has a strong clinical interest in bone and joint infections, having successfully initiated a multidisciplinary high risk foot clinic that led to a decrease in limb amputations. Prior to leaving the VA she served as the local site investigator for the VA sponsored study Investigation of Rifampin to Reduce Pedal Amputations for Osteomyelitis in Diabetics ( VA INTREPID)

Medical School

Grant Medical College, India (2001)

Residency

Maimonides Medical Center (2005), Internal Medicine

Fellowship

Mount Sinai Beth Isreal (2007), Infectious Diseases

• Bone & Joint Infections
• Healthcare Epidemiology

Featured Publications

Healthcare-associated Legionnaires' disease: Limitations of surveillance definitions and importance of epidemiologic investigation.

Castellino LM, Gamage SD, Hoffman PV, Kralovic SM, Holodniy M, Bernstein JM, Roselle GA J Infect Prev 2017 Nov 18 6 307-310

Serratia fonticola, pathogen or bystander? A case series and review of the literature.

Aljorayid A, Viau R, Castellino L, Jump RL IDCases 2016 5 6-8

Veterans Affairs Medical Center employee comments suggest additional educational targets to improve influenza vaccination campaigns.

Castellino L, Cheek VL, Jump RL Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2015 Mar 36 3 363-4

Escherichia coli sequence type 131 (ST131) subclone H30 as an emergent multidrug-resistant pathogen among US veterans.

Colpan A, Johnston B, Porter S, Clabots C, Anway R, Thao L, Kuskowski MA, Tchesnokova V, Sokurenko EV, Johnson JR Clin. Infect. Dis. 2013 Nov 57 9 1256-65

 Featured Books

HIV Infection/AIDS. In Genital and Perianal Diseases: A Color Handbook

Castellino L (2014). Boca Raton, FL, CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group

• Directors Gold Coin Award
  Dayton VA Medical Center (2018)
• Special Contribution Award for Patient Safety
  Dayton VA Medical Center (2011)
• Excellent in Teaching Award
  Wright State University and Dayton VA Medical Center (2009)

• Society for Health Care Epidemiology (2015)
• Infectious Diseases Society of America (2007)