Maria Carmela Evangelista, NP

Eli Grunstein, M.D. is the John and De Graaf Woodman Associate Professor of Clinical Otolaryngology—Head & Neck Surgery at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and Assistant Attending physician at NewYork-Presbyterian/ Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital. He specializes in general Pediatric Otolaryngology, with specific clinical interest in pediatric throat and airway diseases, hyper nasality, and pediatric sinonasal diseases. Dr. Grunstein received his medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He completed his Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery residency training at Columbia University Medical Center and The Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York, then a fellowship in Pediatric Otolaryngology at Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center in Seattle, Washington. Dr. Grunstein is a member of the American Academy of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery and is Board Certified in Otolaryngology. He is author or co-author of a number of journal articles and textbook chapters. His current research project is focused on novel ways to prevent intubation related laryngeal injury.

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.