Robert G. Castile, MD, MS

Medical School:

University of Maryland   MD   06/30/1973

Internship:

Mayo Clinic (Rochester)   06/30/1974

Residency:

Mayo Clinic (Rochester)   06/30/1976

Fellowship:

Mayo Clinic (Rochester)   06/30/1978
Children's Hospital Boston   06/30/1980

Section:

Pulmonary Medicine   Click to learn about this department

Specialty:

Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine, Certified  
Pediatrics, Certified  

Gender:

Male

Languages Spoken:

English

Date of Appointment at
Children's Hospital:

05/11/1993

Academic Title:

Professor of Pediatrics

Clinical, Teaching & Research Interests*:

Robert G. Castile, MD, MS, is a member of the Center for Perinatal Research at The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and the Section of Pulmonary Medicine at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and a Professor of Pediatrics at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. His undergraduate and medical training was done at the University of Maryland. His residency training in pediatrics was done at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. His fellowship training was done at Children’s Hospital in Boston, where he practiced pediatric pulmonology for 14 years prior to moving to Columbus, Ohio. He also holds a master’s degree in pediatrics from the University of Minnesota. He has been engaged in research and clinical practice in the area of lung disorders of infants and children for more than 30 years. His research interests include infant pulmonary function testing, CT lung imaging, lung growth, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, cystic fibrosis, asthma, Jeune’s syndrome and interstitial lung diseases. He is a frequent speaker at national and international medical meetings and has more than 70 peer-reviewed publications.

Publications*:

Astor T, Long F, Baker P, L. Schwartz L, Galantowicz M, Phillips A, Castile R. Concurrent use of controlled ventilation high resolution computed tomography, pulmonary function testing, and transbronchial biopsy for allograft ejection/infection surveillance in infant lung and heart-lung transplant recipients. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2007.

Davis JT, Phillips ABM, Long FR and Castile RG. Staged Surgical Approach to Thoracic Expansion in Jeune Syndrome and other Asphyxiating Thoracic Dystrophies. In Reoperative Pediatric Surgery, Caniano DA and Teich S, eds. The Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, 2007.

Deterding RR, Young LR, Dishop M, Fan L, Dell S, Sweet S, Hagwood J, Redding G, Castile R, Kurland G, Prestridge A, Morton R, Galambos C, White F, Askin F, Trapnell B, Langston C. Diffuse lung disease in older children-Report of the child network. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2007

Jadcherla SR, Gupta A, Fernandez S, Nelin LD, Castile R, Gest AL, Welty S. Spatio-temporal characteristics of acid refluxate and relationship to symptoms in premature and term infants with chronic lung disease. American Journal of Gastroenterology, 2007

Presentations and
Teaching Activities*:

Clinical and Research Utility of Computed Tomography and Infant Pulmonary Function Testing, Northern New England Cystic Fibrosis Consortium, Woodstock, Vermont, March 2007

Assessment of Lung Structure and Function in Infants with BPD, Symposium: State-of-the-Art Update: Prevention and Management of Neonatal Chronic Lung Disease, Speaker and Symposium Chairman, American Thoracic Society International Conference, San Francisco, California, May 2007

Early Detection of Structural and Functional Changes in CF Lung Disease, Symposium on Advances in Cystic Fibrosis Assessment and Treatment, American College of Chest Physicians Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, October 2007

Research Funding*:

Two-Year Study to Assess the Natural hx of Progressive CF Lung Disease Utilizing CT Imaging, PFTs and Clinical Scores, CR Therapeutics Development Network/Anonymous

Changes in Lung Structure and Function in Children with Cystic Fibrosis, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

HRCT & Growth in Preschoolers Receiving Behavioral Tx, Children’s Hospital Medical Center Cincinnati/Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

Cystic Fibrosis Treatment Study, Anonymous

*Physician publications, awards and honors, and presentations and teaching activities represent work completed in 2008 only.