Prof Erlick Pereira

Clinical interests

Prof Pereira is a Consultant Neurosurgeon at St George's. He has clinical interests in general neurosurgery including spine surgery and functional neurosurgery.  He is an academic neurosurgeon and Professor of Neurosurgery at City St George’s, University of London.  His research interests include deep brain stimulation, spinal cord stimulation and radiofrequency lesioning for movement disorders and pain including spinal cord injury and cancer pain.

Professional profile

Prof Pereira read natural sciences at Trinity College, Cambridge University then medicine at Somerville College, Oxford University.  His neurosurgical training was undertaken at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford including fellowship training in functional neurosurgery.  He gained FRCS(Neuro.Surg) from the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 2013 and is dual accredited in orthopaedic and neurosurgical complex spinal surgery having completed a one year orthopaedic fellowship at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals including minimally invasive spinal surgery.

He completed a research DM at Oxford University.  He has published over 200 peer reviewed papers and authored over 30 book chapters including the basal ganglia chapter of Gray’s Anatomy.  In 2016 he co-authored two books: Surgery of the Autonomic Nervous System and Neurosurgery Self-Assessment.  He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.