Dr. Castilho is an associate professor and physician-scientist in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Dr. Castilho received her MD and MPH from Johns Hopkins University. She completed her residency in internal medicine and fellowship in infectious diseases at Vanderbilt. She joined the faculty in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Vanderbilt in 2015. Her research utilizes local, national, and international observational cohort studies to understand long-term outcomes of living with HIV, including co-morbidities, cancer, and aging. In 2016, She received a K23 Career Development award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) on HIV, aging, and immune senescence. She is currently the mPI by an R01 from the National Institute on Aging that focuses on long-term outcomes of adults living with HIV in Brazil. She is also mPI of a U01 from NIAID, the Caribbean, Central, and South America network for HIV epidemiology (CCASAnet), which is one of the seven global regions of the International epidemiology Databases to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA). Dr. Castilho also has expertise in women’s health and infectious diseases. She is the project PI for the HPV IMPACT public health surveillance project for the CDC-funded Tennessee Emerging Infections Program which evaluates vaccine effectiveness of the HPV vaccine for HPV-associated cancers and pre-cancers. She has coauthored more than 45 publications and mentored more than a dozen domestic and international trainees to date. Dr. Castilho sees patients with HIV at the Vanderbilt Comprehensive Care Clinic.

For information about Dr. Castilho’s Lab at VUMC click here