Juan Pablo Castello
Juan Pablo Castello received his Medical Doctor degree with honors from Universidad Javeriana (Bogotá, Colombia), and was recognized among the Best Students of Colombia’s Quality Examination of Higher Education.
He completed a year of Social Medical Service at San Andrés Island (Colombia), serving the local population at the island’s main hospital. During that time, he also served as the Clinical Coordinator for the Social Service Physicians.
He subsequently worked as an Emergency Room (ER) Physician at the Colombian Red Cross (Bogotá). All along, his clinical practice has been centered on the emergency care of adult, pediatric, and obstetric patients.
Concurrently, Dr. Castello was appointed Teacher of Medicine at the Gimnasio Moderno School (Bogotá), where he taught and mentored senior high school students interested in entering medical school.
He then moved to the United States to pursue postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical School. In 2018 he joined the Department of Neurology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where his research focused on the role of microglia and TLR-4 in cerebral inflammation after subarachnoid hemorrhage.
Since 2019, he has been a Research Fellow at the Aging & Brain Health Research (ABHR) Group in the Department of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), under the mentorship of Dr. Alessandro Biffi. His focus of research is in the field of stroke-related neurovascular, neurocognitive and neuropsychiatric disorders.
Dr. Castello served as the Vice-President for Academic Affairs 2019-2020 of the Harvard Colombian Student Society (HCSS) at Harvard University.
