Dr. Amanda Derryck Castel MD, MPH
Preventative Medicine Specialist | Public Health & General Preventive Medicine
403 Aspen St Nw Washington DC, 20012About
Amanda Castel is a preventative medicine specialist practicing in Washington, DC. Castel specializes in the health of individuals, communities, and particular populations, focusing on how to protect and maintain health as well as prevent disease and dangers. As a preventative health specialist, Castel participates in the planning and evaluation of health services, researches diseases in specific populations and helps manage health care organizations. Preventative medicine specialists can specialize further in aerospace medicine, occupational medicine, or public health and general preventive medicine.
Education and Training
Univ of Pa Sch of Med, Philadelphia Pa 2000
Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania 2000
Board Certification
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Responding to feature or location: a re-examination of inhibition of return and facilitation of return.
- Preventing blood contamination in nuclear pharmacies: lessons from an outbreak of hepatitis C virus infections and contaminated 99mTc-sestamibi.
- Linkage, engagement, and viral suppression rates among HIV-infected persons receiving care at medical case management programs in Washington, DC.
- Factors affecting acceptance of routine human immunodeficiency virus screening by adolescents in pediatric emergency departments.
- HIV testing implementation in two urban cities: practice, policy, and perceived
- Sorting through the lost and found: are patient perceptions of engagement in care consistent with standard continuum of care measures?
- HIV testing in primary care.
- Comparing Cost-Effectiveness of HIV Testing Strategies: Targeted and Routine Testing in Washington, DC.
- Development of a large urban longitudinal HIV clinical cohort using a web-based platform to merge electronically and manually abstracted data from disparate medical record systems: technical challenges and innovative solutions.
- Interruptions of antiretroviral therapy in children and adolescents with HIV infection in clinical practice: a retrospective cohort study in the USA.
- Feasibility of Using HIV Care-Continuum Outcomes to Identify Geographic Areas for Targeted HIV Testing.
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