Overview

An ABR board certified medical physicist, Dr. Castillo has expertise in image-guided, and adaptive radiation therapy, the use of deformable image registration in medical image analysis, and quantitative methods for lung function imaging from CT.

Dr. Castillo is a professor of medical physics in the Department of Radiation Oncology at Emory University School of Medicine. He serves as assistant dean of equity, engagement and belonging in the Office of Equity and Inclusion, driving progress in the office's strategic priorities, primarily growing the innovation and discovery portfolio.

Dr. Castillo has previously served as principal investigator for an NIH Research Scientist Development Award (K01), and currently is co-investigator on an ongoing clinical trial (NCT02528942) prospectively evaluating the safety, feasibility, and preliminary efficacy of 4DCT-ventilation functional avoidance planning. As part of his PhD research, Dr. Castillo founded The Deformable Image Registration Laboratory website in 2009, and continues to maintain and support its function as a public repository for reference image data and image analysis software for quantitative clinical evaluation of deformable image registration.

Dr. Castillo is a Fellow and an active member of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), and currently sits on the AAPM's Diversity and Inclusion subcommittee. He also actively serves as associate senior editor for the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics.

Academic Appointment

• Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine

Education

Research