Olivier Benveniste

Professor Olivier Benveniste, M.D., Ph.D., currently serves as Head of Internal Medicine at the Pitié-Salpêtrière University Hospital in Paris, France, where he oversees the translational medicine process for myositis patients. He also serves as University Professor – Hospital Practitioner (PU-PH) in Internal Medicine and Clinical Immunology at Pitié-Salpêtrière University Hospital and Reference Center for Neurovascular Diseases where he is responsible for inflammatory myopathies. He also serves as Director of the Sorbonne Université/INSERM Laboratory: Inflammatory Muscle and Targeted Innovative Therapies.

Dr. Benveniste has published extensively on his research of myositis and other idiopathic inflammatory myopathies and provides research support to both academia and the biopharma industry. He received both his M.D. and PhD from the form the University of Paris and completed his post-doctoral training at the University of Oxford in the U.K.