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CURRICULUM VITAE

Carlos E. Figueroa Castro MD
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine
Division of Medicine Infectious Diseases

OFFICE ADDRESS:
1700 W Paradise Drive
West Bend, WI 53095

EDUCATION:
01/1993 - 12/1998 Doctor in Medicine and Surgery, Universidad El Bosque, Bogota, Colombia
05/2010 - 06/2012 Graduate Certificate in Public Health, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
03/2014 - 07/2016 Graduate Certificate in Biomedical Informatics, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR
09/2014 - 09/2015 Certificate of Completion, HIV Clinician Scholars Program, Midwest AIDS Training Education Center, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago, Department of Family Medicine, Chicago, IL
04/2018 - 12/2020 Master's Degree, Biomedical Informatics, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING AND FELLOWSHIP APPOINTMENTS:
05/2003 - 04/2004 Internship, Medicine, Internal Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, WI 53226
05/2004 - 06/2006 Residency, Medicine, Internal Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, WI 53226
07/2006 - 06/2008 Fellowship, Infectious Diseases, Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Creighton University School of Medicine, 601 North 30th Street, Suite 5850, Omaha, NE 68131


BIBLIOGRAPHY
Refereed Journal Publications/Original Papers
1. Castro CE, Madariaga MG. Vascular access-related infections in HIV patients undergoing hemodialysis: case description and literature review. Braz J Infect Dis. 2008 Dec;12(6):531-5.
2. Figueroa Castro CE, Johnson C, Williams M, VanDerSlik A, Graham MB, Letzer D, Ledeboer N, Buchan BW, Block T, Borlaug G, Munoz-Price LS. <i>Elizabethkingia anophelis</i>: Clinical Experience of an Academic Health System in Southeastern Wisconsin. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2017;4(4):ofx251. PMCID: PMC5751080
3. Figueroa Castro CE, Smith PW. Citrobacter koseri endocarditis in end-stage renal disease: Case report and review of the literature. Infect Dis Clin Practice 2009;17:198-200. doi: 10.1097/IPC.0b013e3181812c28
4. Figueroa Castro CE, Knezetic J, Cavalieri S. Use of 16s rRNA gene sequencing to identify a case of Pediococcus parvulus bacteremia in a patient with metastatic testicular cancer. Lab Medicine 2010;41:93-95. https://doi.org/10.1309/LMP8FHP6M2NNVPFH
5. Figueroa Castro CE, Palen L, Johnson C, Graham MB, Letzer D, Ledeboer N, Buchan B, Block T, Seliger H, Singh S, Behrens E, Huerta S, Munoz-Price LS. Immediate impact of healthcare-facility-onset Clostridium difficile laboratory-identified events reporting methodology change on standardized infection ratios. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2018 Dec;39(12):1484-1486.
6. Figueroa Castro, CE, Munoz-Price LS. Advances in Infection Control for Clostridioides (Formerly Clostridium) difficile Infection. Curr Treat Options Infect Dis (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40506-019-0179-y.
7. Bennett TD, Moffitt RA, Hajagos JG, Amor B, Anand A, Bissell MM, Bradwell KR, Bremer C, Byrd JB, Denham A, DeWitt PE, Gabriel D, Garibaldi BT, Girvin AT, Guinney J, Hill EL, Hong SS, Jimenez H, Kavuluru R, Kostka K, Lehmann HP, Levitt E, Mallipattu SK, Manna A, McMurry JA, Morris M, Muschelli J, Neumann AJ, Palchuk MB, Pfaff ER, Qian Z, Qureshi N, Russell S, Spratt H, Walden A, Williams AE, Wooldridge JT, Yoo YJ, Zhang XT, Zhu RL, Austin CP, Saltz JH, Gersing KR, Haendel MA, Chute CG, National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) Consortium. Clinical Characterization and Prediction of Clinical Severity of SARS-CoV-2 Infection Among US Adults Using Data From the US National COVID Cohort Collaborative. JAMA Netw Open. 2021 Jul 01;4(7):e2116901. PMCID: PMC8278272
8. Verhagen NB, SenthilKumar G, Jaraczewski T, Koerber NK, Merrill JR, Flitcroft MA, Szabo A, Banerjee A, Yang X, Taylor BW, Castro CEF, Yen TWF, Clarke CN, Lauer K, Pfeifer KJ, Gould JC, Kothari AN. Severity of Prior COVID-19 Infection is Associated with Postoperative Outcomes Following Major Inpatient Surgery. medRxiv. 2023 Apr 17. PMCID: PMC10153306
9. SenthilKumar G, Verhagen NB, Sheriff SA, Yang X, Figueroa Castro CE, Szabo A, Taylor BW, Wainaina N, Lauer K, Gould JC, Kothari AN, N3C Consortium. Preoperative SARS-CoV-2 infection increases risk of early postoperative cardiovascular complications following noncardiac surgery. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2023 Jun 01;324(6):H721-H731. PMCID: PMC10151044
10. Verhagen NB, SenthilKumar G, Jaraczewski T, Koerber NK, Merrill JR, Flitcroft MA, Szabo A, Banerjee A, Yang X, Taylor BW, Figueroa Castro CE, Yen TWF, Clarke CN, Lauer K, Pfeifer KJ, Gould JC, Kothari AN, N3C Consortium. Severity of Prior Coronavirus Disease 2019 is Associated With Postoperative Outcomes After Major Inpatient Surgery. Ann Surg. 2023 Nov 01;278(5):e949-e956. PMCID: PMC10659141
11. Mohan M, Kothari A, Verhagen N, Shreenivas A, Radhakrishnan SV, Dhakal B, Figueroa-Castro C, Chhabra S, Janz S, Pasquini M, Hamadani M, Szabo A, D'Souza A, N3C consortium. Blood and marrow transplant within 4 weeks of SARS-CoV-2 infection is associated with increased risk of mortality: a National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) Study. Bone Marrow Transplant. 2024 Jan;59(1):121-124.
12. SenthilKumar G, Verhagen NB, Nimmer K, Yang X, Figueroa Castro CE, Szabo A, Taylor BW, Wainaina N, Gould JC, Kothari AN, N3C Consortium. Risk of Early Postoperative Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Complication in Patients with Preoperative COVID-19 Undergoing Cancer Surgery. J Am Coll Surg. 2024 Jun 01;238(6):1085-1097. PMCID: PMC11330174
13. Johnson C, Wood MG, Graham MB, Gorecki P, Shockey A, Mooney A, Bateman A, Simon N, Figueroa Castro CE. Use of whole genome sequencing in a bronchoscopy-related pseudo-outbreak of Mycobacterium mucogenicum linked to ice machines. Am J Infect Control. 2026 Jun;54(6):691-696.
14. Figueroa Castro CE, Shera AA. Cervical Tuberculosis Lymphadenitis (Scrofula) in Wisconsin: Case Report, Pitfalls, and Challenges. WMJ. 2026;125(2):294-297.
15. Figueroa Castro CE, Shera AA. Cervical Tuberculosis Lymphadenitis (Scrofula) in Wisconsin: Case Report, Pitfalls and Challenges Wisconsin Medical Journal. June 2026;125(2):294-297.