Maria Castellanos • UCSF Profiles (original) (raw)

Photo of Maria Castellanos, MD Title(s)Assistant Professor, PediatricsSchoolSchool of MedicineAddress550 16th Street, #4651San Francisco CA 94158PronounsShe/Her/HersvCardDownload vCard

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University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV B.S 05/2010 Cell and Molecular Biology
Howard University College of Medicine, Washington D.C. M.D. 05/2014 Medicine
Stanford University/Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Stanford, CA 06/2017 Pediatrics Residency
Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX 06/2021 Pediatric Hematology Oncology Fellowship
University of California San Francisco Dean's Diversity Fund 2024 - 2024 Watson Scholar
Children's Oncology Group 2023 - 2023 Highest Scoring Abstract, Children’s Oncology Group Diversity and Health Disparities Committee Meeting
Baylor College of Medicine 2022 - 2022 Award of Excellence for Panel Presentation at Pediatric Grand Rounds
Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital 2021 - 2021 Quality Award of Cancer and Hematology (QACH) Award
American Society of Hematology Committee on Quality 2021 - 2021 American Society of Hematology Choosing Wisely Champion
Baylor College of Medicine 2020 - 2020 Nomination for Gold Humanism Honor Society
Baylor College of Medicine 2019 - 2019 Center of Excellence in Health Equity, Training and Research (COE) Clinical Fellow Scholar
Academic Pediatric Association (APA) 2016 - 2016 New Century Scholar
Stanford University 2015 - 2015 Stanford Society of Physician Scholars
Stanford University 2015 - 2015 Pediatric Clerkship Teaching Honor Roll
Stanford University 2015 - 2015 Pediatric Clerkship Letter of Distinction for Teaching
Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Honor Medical Society 2014 - 2014 Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society Member
Howard University College of Medicine 2011 - 2011 Howard University Trustee Scholarship Award (given to high academic performing medical students)
NIH IDeA Network for Biomedical Research 2008 - 2008 Research Scholarship
University of Nevada, Las Vegas 2008 - 2008 McNair Scholar
American Society of Microbiology 2008 - 2008 Best Undergraduate Research Presentation Award
University of Nevada, Las Vegas 2005 - 2005 College of Sciences Dean's Honor List, 2005-2010

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My research goal is to characterize, study, and identify remedies to mitigate the socioeconomic, biological, and clinical factors that impact treatment outcomes and survival in children with cancer, with a specific interest in pediatric leukemias. I study geospatial differences among communities that impact cancer survival outcomes.

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  1. Thrombopoietin Receptor Agonists for Thrombocytopenia in Pediatric Hematologic Malignancies. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2025 Mar; 72(3):e31528. Marinoff AE, Thrall A, Aaronson K, Braun BS, Castellanos M, Chu J, Hermiston M, Huang BJ, Levinson A, Southworth E, Winger BA, Olshen A, Stieglitz E. PMID: 39780402; PMCID: PMC12103215.
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