Jose A. Castro-Rodriguez, MD, PhD, ATSF, was born in Peru and graduated in Medicine from Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru (1982-1987), where he also completed his residency in Pediatrics (1988-1991). He was trained as a Fellow in Pediatric Respiratory Diseases (graduated summa cum laude) at the Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile (1994-1996). Later, he took a position as a visiting research scientist and Fellow in Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine at the University of Arizona, Tucson, US (1997-2000). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
One of his significant contributions was the creation of the Asthma Predictive Index (PMID: 11029352) with more than 1,850 citations and incorporated into several asthma guidelines. He was designed as an \u201cATS Fellow\u201d (2020) and \u201cMaster of Latin American Pediatric Pulmonology\u201d by the Latin American Pediatric Pulmonology Society (2018). He was awarded the \u201cWorldwide Scientific Prize\u201d from the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (2002), the \u201cPediatric Year in Review Paper\u201d at ATS (2001) with more than 1,370 citations (PMID: 10954761), and the \u201cPeruvian Scientific Prize\u201d from CONCYTEC (1993).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Currently, he is a Full Professor of Pediatrics and Chief of Research at the Department of Pediatric Pulmonology, Pontificia Universidad Cat\u00f3lica de Chile (Santiago, Chile). His main areas of interest are acute bronchiolitis, recurrent wheezing, respiratory infection diseases, and asthma in children (phenotypes, treatment, epigenetic, and fetal programming). He is frequently invited to give keynote presentations in more than 30 countries at international meetings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Jose A. Castro-Rodriguez, MD, PhD, ATSF, was born in Peru and graduated in Medicine from Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru (1982-1987), where he also completed his residency in Pediatrics (1988-1991). He was trained as a Fellow in Pediatric Respiratory Diseases (graduated summa cum laude) at the Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile (1994-1996). Later, he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-speaker"],"yoast_head":"\n