Djamel Bensmail is professor of physical and rehabilitation medicine at the university of Versailles Saint Quentin since 2010 and the head of the spinal cord injury-multiple sclerosis unit and spasticity management unit of the R. Poincaré hospital. He is director of the Master degree Neurological Handicap from Paris Saclay university.
He is president of the Garches Foundation dedicated to neurological handicap (research, education and patient management). He is coordinator of a MS care resource and referral center in the western part of Paris area.
He is member of the team 3 of the U1179 (ENDICAP) Inserm-UVSQ laboratory. He is also a board member of the French society of physical medicine and rehabilitation (SOFMER). He published more than 100 peer-reviewed original publications.