Enrico CastilloMedical Director for Clinical Innovations and Strategy, Behavioral Health Services - San Francisco Department of Public Health
- Community-public-academic partnerships
- Integration of mental health and social services
- Public mental health and homelessness/housing policies
- MD, University of Pittsburgh
- MS, Health Policy and Management, UCLA
- BA, English, University of Virginia
Dr. Enrico Castillo’s career is dedicated to public service, community-government-academic partnerships, and enhancing the capacity of public mental health systems to address the health and social needs of individuals with serious mental illness, especially in the areas of homelessness and incarceration. He is the Medical Director for Clinical Innovations and Strategy for Behavioral Health Services – San Francisco Department of Public Health. In this role he creates and implements new clinical programs, advises health system leaders, collaborates with frontline providers to improve existing services, and enhances data systems to support evaluation and continuous quality improvement.
Dr. Castillo was previously an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at UCLA. As an academic community psychiatrist, health services researcher, and graduate medical educator, he secured over $1.9 million in research funding and over $4 million in government-academic contracts in the roles of PI and Co-PI. He developed over 20 research and education partnerships with local, state, and national agencies and community-based organizations. He led NIMH-funded projects (K23, R34) on the jail-to-homelessness pipeline experienced by individuals with serious mental illness. He was the founder and inaugural program director for the UCLA Community Psychiatry Clinical Fellowship. Dr. Castillo has been the recipient of national and university teaching awards, the UCLA Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award, and the American Psychiatric Association’s Jeanne Spurlock Minority Fellowship Achievement Award.
He serves in several state and national leadership roles in research and medical education, including the Mental Health Advisory Board of the Association of American Medical Colleges, multiple positions in the American Psychiatric Association, and the California State Council on Criminal Justice and Behavioral Health. He was a member of the New Voices Initiative of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and is a National Academy of Medicine Emerging Leaders in Health and Medicine Scholar.