MD, PhD
GSK Global Medical Expert - Immunology and Specialty Medicine
• Professor Levy is a former Adjunct Professor of Rheumatology at The State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he started working in 1996
• He completed a fellowship programme in Rheumatology in 1989 at HSS/Cornell Medical College and received his PhD in Immunology/Biological Sciences from The Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
• Professor Levy’s research concerns the clinical and immunological aspects of SLE, antiphospholipid syndrome, Sjögren’s syndrome and always had a special interest and many publications on the interplay of pregnancy and autoimmune diseases
• He participated in the BLISS-52 study as a principal investigator, as well as in the BASE study, in addition to a large experience in clinical trials
• He is a member of several scientific journal’s editorial boards, published 3 books and wrote many book chapters. He has published over 160 scientific papers in peer reviewed journals with over 6800 citations
• He has organized regional and international congresses and has participated in several guidelines’ elaborations and the APS ACR-EULAR classification criteria
• Professor Levy joined GSK in early 2018 and is currently a Global Medical Expert in the Immunology & Specialty Medicine franchise, based in Upper Providence, Philadelphia, USA