Maria Castellanos • UCSF Profiles

Maria Castellanos, MD

Title(s)	Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
School	School of Medicine
Address	550 16th Street, #4651 San Francisco CA 94158
Pronouns	She/Her/Hers
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Biography

Education and Training

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

Overview

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.

Interests

pediatric cancers, pediatric leukemia, cancer health disparities, Diversity, equity, and inclusion, minority in medicine mentorship

In The News

	Living along US-Mexico border linked to higher risk for death among children with leukemia (02/24/2023)
	Pediatric Patients With ALL Living Along the Texas-Mexico Border May Experience Lower Rates of Survival (02/21/2023)
	Does living along the US-Mexico border affect the chances of survival among children with leukemia? (02/21/2023)

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Publications

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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.

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Hem Hematology Neo Neoplasms Ped Pediatrics