Mr. Pereira has a wide general practice of brain, spine, peripheral nerve and functional neurosurgery. He is dual-trained in complex spinal surgery, having trained in neurosurgery at the Oxford John Radcliffe followed by an orthopaedic complex spinal surgery fellowship at Guy’s and St Thomas’.

He has special interests in all surgeries for severe chronic pain and cancer pain, spinal cord and dorsal root ganglion stimulation for pain, complex spinal surgery from slipped discs and trapped nerves to trauma, tumour and minimally invasive surgery, general brain surgery including trauma, benign lesions, vascular problems and hydrocephalus. He uses endoscopes and microscopes and has particular expertise in deep brain stimulation.

For neurosurgery for psychiatric disorders (including vagal nerve stimulation for depression), Mr Pereira works closely with Dr Mohamed Abdelghani, a Consultant Psychiatrist also based in Harley Street.

He has set up deep brain stimulation services in St George's, London where he is a senior lecturer and Porto, Portugal where he is a visiting Professor.

He has numerous awards including the American Association of Neurological Surgeons WH Sweet Award, US Congress of Neurosurgeons Tasker Award and the Hunterian Professorship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Mr. Pereira is a Neurosurgical Medical Advisor to the British Boxing Board of Control.

• Neurosurgery
• Spinal surgery

• Consultant Neurosurgeon
  St George's Hospital, London

• Reader in Neurosurgery
  St George's, University of London
• Visiting Professor of Neurosurgery
  University of Porto

• Cambridge University
• Oxford University