Maria Castro, MD
RESIDENT
Surgery
School of Medicine

Maria Castro, M.D., is a general surgery resident at UCSF. She grew up in Sacramento, CA, and graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Science with Honors in Human Biology. She completed medical school at UCSF.

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Maria's clinical interests include trauma/acute care surgery and pediatric surgery. Her research pursuits include studying the impact of Limited English proficiency on surgical outcomes. She led the curricular design of the UCSF School of Medicine's COVID Response Elective and well as developed and led anatomy didactics for medical students on their surgery rotation. Outside of the hospital, she loves finding the best dahlias at the farmer's market, playing board games, reading in the sunshine, and scuba diving.

Awards

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• Firestone Medal for Excellence in Undergraduate Reserach, Stanford University, 2017
• Genentech Foundation Grant, Stanford University, 2014

Education & Training

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• MD Medicine University of California, San Francisco 05/2022
• BS Human Biology Stanford University 06/2017

Interests

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• Medical education
• Trauma surgery
• Acute care surgery

Publications (7)

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Problem-Based LearningMeningiomaCommunication BarriersCurriculumTrigeminal NerveMyelin SheathNeuroma, AcousticEducation, MedicalClinical ClerkshipFacial NerveFacial PainCorpus CallosumBuprenorphineMeningeal NeoplasmsMorbidity

• Lessons From Learners: Adapting Medical Student Education During and Post COVID-19.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2021 Castro MRH, Calthorpe LM, Fogh SE, McAllister S, Johnson CL, Isaacs ED, Ishizaki A, Kozas A, Lo D, Rennke S, Davis J, Chang A
• Machine learning improves prediction of postoperative outcomes after gastrointestinal surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
  Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract 2024 Wang J, Tozzi F, Ashraf Ganjouei A, Romero-Hernandez F, Feng J, Calthorpe L, Castro M, Davis G, Withers J, Zhou C, Chaudhary Z, Adam M, Berrevoet F, Alseidi A, Rashidian N
• The Devil's in the Depot Details: Case of Iatrogenic Opioid Intoxication After Buprenorphine Injection Requiring Surgical Excision.
  Journal of addiction medicine 2024 Vais S, Starr N, Castro M, Brand N, Murphy A, Tesoriero R, Kryzhanovskaya I
• The Association of Limited English Proficiency With Morbidity and Mortality After Trauma.
  The Journal of surgical research 2022 Castro MRH, Schwartz H, Hernandez S, Calthorpe L, Fernández A, Stein D, Mackersie RC, Menza R, Bongiovanni T
• Facial pain and sensory outcomes following resection of tumors compressing the trigeminal nerve.
  Journal of neurosurgery 2021 Castro MRH, Magill ST, Morshed RA, Young JS, Braunstein SE, McDermott MW, Chang EF
• DNA methylation profiling demonstrates superior diagnostic classification to RNA-sequencing in a case of metastatic meningioma.
  Acta neuropathologica communications 2020 Vasudevan HN, Castro MRH, Lee JC, Villanueva-Meyer JE, Bush NAO, McDermott MW, Solomon DA, Perry A, Magill ST, Raleigh DR
• More than myelin: Probing white matter differences in prematurity with quantitative T1 and diffusion MRI.
  NeuroImage. Clinical 2019 Travis KE, Castro MRH, Berman S, Dodson CK, Mezer AA, Ben-Shachar M, Feldman HM