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Dr. Michael D Lockshin, MD

Internal Medicine, Rheumatology
62 years of experience
Ambulatory Care Center Rheumatology Department at the Main Hospital Campus 535 E 70th St, New York, NY 10021

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Brief Intro

Dr. Michael Lockshin graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Medical School; he did his residencies at Second (Cornell) Medical Service at Bellevue Hospital and Memorial-Sloan Kettering Hospital, and his rheumatology fellowship at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital. A member of the faculty of Weill Cornell Medical College and a staff rheumatologist at Hospital for Special Surgery and New York Hospital from the 1970s to 1989, he became Extramural Director, then Acting Director of the NIHs National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases in 1989. He returned to Hospital for Special Surgery in April of 1997, and is now the director of the Barbara Volcker Center for Women and Rheumatic Disease at Hospital for Special Surgery and professor of medicine and obstetrics-gynecology at Weill Cornell Medical College. He is the author of nearly 300 research papers, book chapters, and books, most on the topic of lupus, pregnancy, antiphospholipid syndrome, and sex differences in disease. His latest book, co-authored with his patient, Alida Brill, and entitled Dancing at the River's Edge: A Patient and her Doctor Negotiate Life with Chronic Illness, is a memoir about their shared experience in treating her autoimmune disease.

Education Background

RESIDENCY

New York Presbyterian Hospital

MEDICAL SCHOOL

HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL - 1963

Location & Hours

Ambulatory Care Center Rheumatology Department at the Main Hospital Campus
535 E 70th St, New York, NY 10021

Specialties Treated

Internal Medicine
Rheumatology

Conditions Addressed

Lateral Epicondylitis
Rheumatoid Arthritis
Gout
Osteoporosis
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Osteoarthritis

Insurance Accepted

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Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Connecticut
Blue Shield of California
Anthem Blue Cross
Medicaid
UnitedHealthcare

Cancer 43
Cardiology, Heart & Vascular Surgery 31
Orthopedics 75
Neurology & Neurosurgery 60
Gastroenterology & GI Surgery 75
Pulmonology & Lung Surgery 91
Diabetes & Endocrinology 44
Children's Hospital 22
Urology 87
Psychiatry 103
Geriatrics 82
Rehabilitation 38
Obsterics & Gynecology 17
Ophthalmology 4
Ear, Nose & Throat 11
Rheumatology 2
Long Term Care 3
Maternity Care (Uncomplicated Pregnancy) 60