Jason Robert Castillo, MD
I speak: English
My gender: Male
Where I practice
- Emergency service
- Urgent care services
- After-hours services
- Pharmacy services
- No emergency services
- No urgent care services
- No after-hours services
- No pharmacy services
About me
Welcome to my Web page. I look forward to getting to know you better. I am pleased to be a partner at Kaiser Permanente as a double board-certified and fellowship-trained Mohs surgeon and dermatologist. Hopefully this biography gives you a brief introduction to who I am and my philosophy in providing member-centered care.
Biography
I grew up in Clovis, California, and attended college as part of the founding class at UC Merced. My interest in dermatology grew during medical school at UC San Francisco. During my internship at UC Irvine, I was chosen as Intern of the Year based on my patient care. I furthered my training during my residency at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, where I was chosen to serve as chief resident my final year. Following completion of my residency, I completed a micrographic surgery and dermatologic oncology/Mohs fellowship at the Mayo Clinic. Currently I serve as physician lead of the Kaiser Permanente Orange County Mohs Division. Besides surgery, my other passions are teaching and leadership. I am associate faculty at Harbor-UCLA’s dermatology residency program, where I volunteer at their Safety Net Hospital and teach the fundamentals of Mohs surgery. The residents kindly awarded me the annual Teaching Award in 2022. I also am an associate clinical professor at the Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine in Pasadena, where I help teach and mentor medical students and serve as the co-advisor for the Dermatology Interest Group. I currently am serving a 3-year term on the American Board of Dermatology Board of Directors as the Board Observer. Additionally, I was chosen as 1 of 8 Mohs surgeons across the nation out of the American College of Mohs Surgeons (ACMS) to serve in the Mohs Surgeons Leading the Future leadership development program.
About my practice
An ideal health care professional is one who puts patient care as the top priority. You can expect on the day of surgery that I will make sure that you understand the procedure and the entire healing process as well as answer any questions you may have. I realize surgery in cosmetic areas can cause anxiety or stress, I typically have you choose the music that we listen to during surgery, and I will try my best to minimize the pain during the injections as we numb the skin. My job is to remove your skin cancer, take the best surgical approach, and minimize the removal of normal surrounding skin. The Mohs procedure offers the lowest risk of recurrence while minimizing the appearance of the scar. My other interests in dermatology include cancer surveillance in high-risk patients (those with rare tumor types, transplant patients, immunosuppressed patients), medical education, and volunteering with underserved communities.
How I thrive
I believe a physician should lead a healthy and balanced life. When I’m not in the office, you may find me swimming, gardening, going to Disneyland with family, traveling, or playing with my 2 dogs, Hippo and Mayo.
My office
Languages spoken by medical staff
Help is available in your language. Learn more.
My provider type
Physicians and SurgeonsMedical groups, plans, and locations
Southern California Permanente Medical Group
- Exclusive Provider Organization (EPO)
- HMO
- Medi-Cal Managed Care
- Point-of-Service Plan (POS)
- Senior Advantage
Contact information
- Advice/appointments/cancellations/messages
- 1-833-574-2273 (toll free)
- California Relay Service
- 711 (TTY for the hearing/speech impaired)
- Information
- 1-833-574-2273 (toll free)
My training, certifications and licensing
Medical school
UC San Francisco Medical CenterBoard certification
Dermatology
American Board of DermatologyMOHS-Micrographic Surgery
American Board of DermatologyMedical training
Chief Resident
Dermatology
Harbor-UCLA Medical CenterFellowship
Micrographic Surgery and Dermatologic Oncology
Mayo ClinicInternship
Internal Medicine
University of California, Irvine California College of MedicineResidency
Dermatology
Harbor-UCLA Medical CenterJoined Permanente Medical Group
2018Active license information
License number
A133196License type
Physician and SurgeonLicense issuing state
CALIFORNIANational Provider Identifier (NPI)
1497098644Cultural Competency Training (CCT)
CompletedMy hospitals
All Kaiser Permanente physicians and podiatrists have admitting privileges or the ability to refer patients to our plan hospitals. Admitting privileges of other providers may vary by plan and facility. Contact your plan administrator for details.
Setting the standard: Measuring care quality in our hospitals(PDF)
Setting the standard: Measuring care quality in our hospitals(PDF)
To find a provider's office hours, search our facility directory.
The information in this online directory is updated periodically. The availability of physicians, hospitals, providers, and services may change. Information about a practitioner is provided to us by the practitioner or is obtained as part of the credentialing process. If you have questions, please call us at 1-800-464-4000 (toll free). For the hearing and speech impaired: 1-800-464-4000 (toll free) or TTY 711 (toll free). You can also call the Medical Board of California at 916-263-2382, or visit their website.
We want to speak to you in the language that you’re most comfortable with when you call or visit us. Qualified interpreter services, including sign language, are available at no cost, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week during all hours of operations at all points of contact. We do not encourage the use of family, friends or minors as interpreters. Only the services of interpreters and qualified staff are used to provide language assistance. These may include bilingual providers, staff, and healthcare interpreters. In-person, telephone, video, and alternative modes of communication are available. Learn more about interpreter services.
If you would like to report an error in provider or facility information, please contact us.
Medicare Members: To request a hard copy of Kaiser Permanente’s provider directory, please call our Member Services department at 1-800-443-0815, seven days a week, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Kaiser Permanente will mail a hard copy of the provider directory to you within three (3) business days of your request. Kaiser Permanente may ask whether your request for a hard copy is a one-time request or if you are requesting to receive the provider directory in hard copy permanently.
If you request it, your request for hard copies of the provider directory remains until you leave Kaiser Permanente or request that hard copies be discontinued.
Medi-Cal Members: This directory includes Kaiser Permanente’s outpatient pharmacies. You can get any drugs covered by Kaiser Permanente at one of these pharmacies. You can get outpatient drugs covered by Medi-Cal at any Medi-Cal Rx Pharmacy. It does not have to be a Kaiser Permanente network pharmacy. Most Kaiser Permanente network pharmacies are Medi-Cal Rx pharmacies. Your pharmacy can tell you if it is part of the Medi-Cal Rx network. If you want to find a Medi-Cal pharmacy outside of Kaiser Permanente, you can use the Medi-Cal Rx Pharmacy Locator online at www.Medi-CalRx.dhcs.ca.gov. You can also call Medi-Cal Rx Customer Service at 1-800-977-2273, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week (TTY 711 Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.).
Medi-Cal Members: Enhanced Care Management and Community Supports services require prior authorization and are limited to members who meet specific eligibility criteria.
Kaiser Permanente enrollees have full and equal access to covered services, including enrollees with disabilities as required under the Federal Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
Kaiser Permanente uses the same quality, member experience, or cost-related measures to select practitioners and facilities in Marketplace Silver-tier plans as it does for all other Kaiser Foundation Health Plan (KFHP) products and lines of business. The measures may include, but are not limited to, HEDIS/CAHPS performance, member/patient complaints, patient safety scores, hospital quality measures, and geographic need. Members enrolled in KFHP Marketplace plans have access to all professional, institutional and ancillary health care providers who participate in KFHP plans’ contracted provider network, in accordance with the terms of members’ KFHP plan of coverage. All Kaiser Permanente Medical Group physicians and network physicians are subject to the same quality review processes and certifications.
Kaiser Permanente uses the same geographic distribution consideration to select hospitals in Marketplace plans as it does for all other Kaiser Foundation Health Plan (KFHP) products and lines of business. Accessibility of medical offices and medical centers in this directory: All Kaiser Permanente facilities are accessible to members.
This page was last updated on: 12/14/2024