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1111 Westchester Avenue
White Plains, NY 10604
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Insurances Accepted
Before your appointment, please contact the doctor's office or your insurance provider to verify that your insurance is accepted. This list of insurances can change, and the insurance plans listed may not be accepted at all office locations for this provider.
- HMO
- PPO
- EPO
- POS
- Student Health
- Aetna Signature Administrators
- NY Signature
- Medicare Managed Care
- Essential Plan
- Medicaid Managed Care
- Special Needs
- PPO
- HMO
- POS
- Great West (National)
- EPO
- Medicare Managed Care
- PPO
- Medicaid Managed Care
- Essential Plan
- Select Care (Exchange)
- ConnectiCare
- PPO
- HMO
- Medicare Managed Care
- Vytra
- EPO
- POS
- Essential Plan
- Medicaid Managed Care
- Child/Family Health Plus
- PPO
- HMO
- Medicare Managed Care
- EPO
- Medicaid Managed Care
- Essential Plan
- Medicare Managed Care
- Child/Family Health Plus
- Leaf (Exchange)
- Child/Family Health Plus
- Medicare Managed Care
- Medicaid Managed Care
- Medicare Managed Care
- Local 1199
- MagnaCare
- Traditional Medicare
- Multiplan
- HMO
- Medicaid Managed Care
- Child/Family Health Plus
- Essential Plan
- Special Needs
- Oxford HMO
- Oxford Freedom
- HMO
- Empire Plan
- Medicare Managed Care
- Compass (Exchange)
- Medicaid (Community Plan)
- POS
- Oxford Liberty
- PPO
- Special Needs
- Medicare Managed Care
- SelectHealth
- Medicaid Managed Care
- Medicare Managed Care
- World Trade Center Health Plan
About 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 University of Athens in Greece and her Ph.D. degree from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt in Germany. She completed her residency training in Internal Medicine at the Yale New Heaven Health Bridgeport Hospital in Connecticut. Prior to her rheumatology clinical fellowship at the University of Washington in Seattle, she conducted research at the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases Vasculitis Translational Research Program in Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Michailidou is the recipient of the Investigator Award for early-career rheumatology researchers from the Rheumatology Research Foundation. In addition, she is member of an international task force meeting for the development of recommendations on vascular imaging in patients with polymyalgia rheumatica.
Board Certifications
EDUCATION
- Fellowship: University of Washington
- Medical School: Athens University School of Medicine
- Residency: Yale New Haven Hospital Bridgeport
LEADERSHIP, TITLES & POSITIONS
- Assistant Professor of Medicine at CUMC
AWARDS & HONORS
- 6/2021: FCE award, FOCIS 2021 Annual meeting, Poster award
- 2/2015: First Price for Poster, Weill Cornell Medical Center, NY
- 2005-2007: IKY PhD Scholarship in Molecular Biology, Greek State Scholarship
- 1997-2002: Antonios Papadakis Graduate Student Scholarship
