Laila Castellino, MD, FIDSA, is an Associate Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center and Director of the Infectious Diseases/OPAT clinic at Parkland Health, where she has worked to expand a well-established OPAT program into a broader COpAT program in the safety-net setting. She works closely with colleagues in the diabetic limb salvage program at Parkland Hospital, where she sees inpatients and outpatients as part of the diabetic foot ulcer integrated clinic.
Before joining UTSW, she was the Division Chief for ID at the VA in Dayton Ohio, where she developed their OPAT program. Dr. Castellino has a strong clinical interest in bone and joint infections, having successfully initiated a multidisciplinary high-risk foot clinic that led to a decrease in limb amputations at the Dayton VA., and she also served as the local site investigator for the VA-sponsored study Investigation of Rifampin to Reduce Pedal Amputations for Osteomyelitis in Diabetics, or VA INTREPID.