Castle, Erik P.

Erik P. Castle earned his medical degree from University of Texas, Southwestern Medical School. He completed a urology residency at the University of Kansas Medical Center, followed by a laparoscopic and reconstructive urologic surgery fellowship at Mayo Clinic of Arizona. Castle's surgical expertise includes minimally invasive urologic oncology including robot-assisted radical cystectomy, prostatectomy, retroperitoneal lymph node dissection, and partial nephrectomy. At Tulane, he pioneered robot-assisted radical cystecomy in 2005; with over 15 years experience, he developed the currently used approach and technique for robot-assisted RPLND in 2008. He was the first to develop the currently used technique and approach of robot-assisted surgery for retroperitoneal tumors in testicular cancer patients. He has performed many of these surgeries as demonstrations internationally. He also serves on the Early Detection of Prostate Cancer Panel for the National Comprehensive Cancer Network. His clinical and basic science research interests include prostate cancer, bladder cancer, kidney cancer and testicular cancer.