Despoina Michailidou, MD, PhD

Dr. Despina Michailidou is an Assistant Professor of Medicine practicing at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and New York-Presbyterian Hospital. She is board- certified in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology. Her main clinical interests are systemic vasculitis, polymyalgia rheumatica, and IgG4-related disease. Her research focuses on vascular imaging, cardiovascular risk and thrombotic events, novel therapeutic strategies, and contribution of neutrophils and mitochondrial-mediated platelet activation to inflammation in patients with systemic vasculitis and polymyalgia rheumatica. Dr. Michailidou is originally from Greece. She earned her MD from the National and Kapodistrian Unive...