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Meet Enrico

Enrico Castillo, MD was just named to the Editorial Board of the Academic Psychiatry Journal. He is the Associate Director of Residency Education at UCLA Semel Neuropsychiatric Institute. He is a public psychiatrist and health services/health policy researcher, with a dual affiliation with the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health and the UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Center for Social Medicine and Humanities.

Dr. Castillo was born and raised in Virginia. He obtained his undergraduate degree in English from the University of Virginia and his MD with a Concentration in Underserved Populations from the University of Pittsburgh. He completed his psychiatry residency and public psychiatry clinical fellowship at Columbia University, specializing in field-based services for homeless populations. Dr. Castillo completed a 2-year fellowship in health services/health policy research, the UCLA Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, and obtained his MS in Health Policy and Management from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. He is a current member of the APA Council for Minority Mental Health and Health Disparities and member of the AADPRT Diversity and Inclusion Committee. Dr. Castillo’s research is focused on graduate medical education initiatives in health equity and physician advocacy, community-public-academic partnerships, and public mental health and homelessness/housing policies.