Flavia Castelino MD

Dr. Flavia Castelino is the Director of the Scleroderma Program at Massachusetts General Hospital and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She is a board-certified physician in the Division of Rheumatology and she specializes in the treatment of scleroderma and connective tissue disease-associated interstitial lung disease (CTD-ILD).

Dr. Castelino founded the MGH Scleroderma Program with a focus on providing outstanding comprehensive care for patients with scleroderma and related conditions. The MGH Scleroderma Program maintains a clinical registry and biorepository of patients with scleroderma to perform clinical and translational research. Dr. Castelino is additionally a principal investigator on several clinical trials evaluating novel therapies for the treatment of scleroderma.

She has many active collaborations nationally and internationally and is a member of the Executive Committee of the CONQUER Registry, a multi-center US-based registry of scleroderma patients. She has served on several committees within the American College of Rheumatology and is a member of the Scleroderma Clinical Trials Consortium. She additionally serves as a reviewer for several medical journals including the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Arthritis and Rheumatology, Arthritis Care and Research.

Dr. Castelino has been invited to speak nationally and internationally on scleroderma and related conditions, including CTD-ILD. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) Distinguished Fellow Award, the Rheumatology Research Foundation Physician-Scientist Development Award, an NIH/NIAMS K08 research grant to study the role of a lipid mediator, lysophosphatidic acid in scleroderma fibrosis, and a Scleroderma Foundation Walter A. Coyle Memorial Research Award.