Michelle S Cespedes, MD Email Michelle Cespedes
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- Position
- ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR | Medicine, Infectious Diseases
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- Specialty
- Infectious Disease
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- Language
- English
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- Hospital Affiliations
- The Mount Sinai Hospital
- Mount Sinai Morningside and Mount Sinai West
- Mount Sinai Beth Israel
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- Phone
- Mount Sinai Faculty Practice Associates 212-604-6513 212-604-6513
Michelle S. Cespedes, MD, MS, joined the Division of Infectious Disease at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai as an Associate Professor of Medicine in 2014. Her research areas of interest are complications and comorbidities of HIV, with an emphasis on HPV, HIV related women's health issues, and HIV prevention in high risk populations. Her basic science interest is genetic factors that predispose HIV infected patients to HPV disease. She is currently the protocol vice-chair of two AIDS Clinical Trial Group (ACTG) studies designed to evaluate the HPV vaccine in HIV infected populations. In 2014, she was named the co-Director of ID Division’s Clinical and Translational Research Center at Mount Sinai and the clinical research site leader of Mt. Sinai West's Samuels Clinic. Nationally, she sits on the ACTG Executive Committee and is the Chair of its Underrepresented Populations Committee.
Please read her article on syphillis in Our Town.
Clinical Focus
- Anal Warts / Condyloma
- Aspergillosis
- Cellulitis
- Chlamydia
- Clostridium Difficile Colitis
- Diarrhea
- Genital Herpes
- Giardiasis
- Gonorrhea
- Hepatitis
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis B Vaccine
- Hepatitis C
- Japanese Encephalitis Vaccine
- Low Blood Pressure / Hypotension
- Lyme Disease
- Meningococcal Vaccine
- Pertussis Vaccine
- Pneumocystis Pneumonia
- Pneumonia
- Polio Vaccine
- Rabies Vaccine
- Rubella Vaccine
- Shingles
- Syphilis
- Toxic Shock Syndrome
- Tropical Disease / Parasite / Malaria
- Tuberculosis
- Typhoid Fever
- Typhoid Vaccine
- Yellow Fever Vaccine
Education
MD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
MS, New York University School of Medicine
Residency, Internal Medicine
New York Presbyterian - Weill Cornell Medical Center
Residency, Internal Medicine
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Fellowship, Infectious Diseases
Bellevue Hospital Center
Language
English
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