Bio

Dr. Tara Castellano is a Gynecologic Oncologist with the LSU Health Sciences Center Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She is originally from the New Orleans area and completed her medical degree at LSUHSC in New Orleans where she first fell in love with the subspecialty of gynecologic oncology. Dr. Castellano completed her Obstetrics and Gynecology residency at University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, NC. After completion of residency, Dr. Castellano completed a fellowship in Gynecologic Oncology at the Stephenson Cancer Center at University of Oklahoma, in Oklahoma City. As a Gynecologic Oncology fellow, Dr. Castellano focused on clinical trial design and was selected for the prestigious ASCO/AACR Jr Investigator clinical trial workshop in Vale, Colorado and was awarded scholarships to attend the NRG oncology meetings. Her selected ASCO/AACR clinical trial protocol was developed and opened at the Stephenson Cancer Center as an investigator-initiated trial and is currently recruiting here at LSUHSC in New Orleans.

Dr. Castellano is double board certified in both Obstetrics and Gynecology and in Gynecology Oncology. She is an active member of the Society of Gynecologic Oncology and serves on many SGO committees. Dr. Castellano's research interests include clinical trial design, quality initiative models, identification and elimination of health disparities and improvements in cancer care delivery for which she is recent Robert A Winn Diversity in Clinical Trial Design Scholar. She has published and presented dozens of scientific abstracts and articles nationally over the past several years and is actively engaged in clinical cancer research. Dr. Castellano is the national and local principal investigator on gynecologic cancer treatment trials and highly involved in the Gulf South NCORP research base, housed within LSUHSC, and supported through the LCRC. She remains thrilled to return home to and is excited to improve care and treatment options as well as expand clinical trial access to women with gynecologic cancers in south Louisiana.