Lea Meir, MD

Dr. Lea Meir received her medical degree from the University of Central Florida College of Medicine. She then completed a residency in Internal Medicine at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell and a fellowship in Rheumatology at Mount Sinai Health System.

Dr. Meir has conducted copious amounts of research, and has presented before such organizations as the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, the Society of Hospital Medicine, and the American College of Rheumatology.

Outside of the field of rheumatology, she has published work on the topics of analgesia and pain management as well as allergy and immunology.

In addition to English, Dr. Meir speaks Hebrew.

Some of the conditions that Dr. Meir diagnoses and treats include the following:

Ankylosing Spondylitis
Antinuclear Antibodies (ANA)
Antiphospholipid Syndrome
Arthritis
Autoimmune Diseases
Autoinflammatory Syndromes
Behçet’s Disease
Bursitis
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Dactylitis
DeQuervain’s Tenosynovitis
Dermatomyositis
Eosinophilic Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis (EGPA, Formerly Churg-Strauss)
Enthesitis
Familial Mediterranean Fever
Fibromyalgia
Giant Cell Arteritis (Temporal Arteritis)
Golfer’s Elbow (Medial Epicondylitis)
Gout
Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis (GPA, Formerly Wegener’s)
Henoch-Schönlein Purpura (IgA Vasculitis)
IgG4-Related Disease (IgG4-RD)
Inflammatory Arthritis
Inflammatory Myopathies
Joint Pain
Kawasaki Disease
Lupus (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus)
Lupus Nephritis
Lyme Disease
Metabolic Myopathies
Microscopic Polyangiitis
Muscle Pain
Noninflammatory Arthritis
Osteoarthritis
Osteonecrosis
Osteoporosis
Paget’s Disease of the Bone
Polymyalgia Rheumatica
Polymyositis
Pseudogout (Calcium Pyrophosphate Deposition)
Psoriatic Arthritis
Raynaud’s Phenomenon
Reactive Arthritis
Rheumatoid Arthritis
Rotator Cuff (Shoulder) Pain
Sarcoidosis
Scleroderma
Sjogren’s Syndrome
Spinal Stenosis
Spondyloarthritis
Takayasu’s Arteritis
Tendinitis
Tennis Elbow (Lateral Epicondylitis)
TriggerFinger
Vasculitis