Prof Erlick Pereira Consultant Profile
Professor Pereira has a wide general practice of spine, brain 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 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 and hydrocephalus. He uses endoscopes and microscopes and has particular expertise in deep brain stimulation. He delivers holistic care in specialist multi-disciplinary medical teams.
He has set up deep brain stimulation services in St George’s, London where he is a Professor at City St George’s, University of London 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 Neurological Surgeons Tasker Award and the Hunterian Professorship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.