Mr Erlick Pereira

Erlick Pereira is a Consultant Neurosurgeon at St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in London, where his particular interests are spinal surgery and functional neurosurgery including deep brain stimulation and spinal cord stimulation for movement disorders and chronic pain. After a psychology degree at Cambridge University, he studied medicine at Oxford University. He then trained in neurosurgery for a decade at Oxford with fellowships in deep brain stimulation and pain neuromodulation, before a one year orthopaedic complex spinal surgery fellowship at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital, London, making him dual trained in neurosurgery and orthopaedic spinal surgery. He is a Visiting Professor at the University of Porto and has been Hunterian Professor of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and awarded prizes for excellence from the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and US Congress of Neurological Surgeons. He has special interests in spinal surgery from slipped discs to trauma, tumour and minimally invasive surgery, fusion surgeries, disc replacement, all surgeries for severe chronic and cancer pain, neuromodulation, spinal cord stimulation for pain, deep brain stimulation, spinal cord injury surgeries and general brain surgery including Chiari malformations and hydrocephalus. Mr Pereira co-directs the Neuromodulation and Motor Control Research Group as a Reader at St George’s, University in London. He has published 200 scientific papers, many book chapters including Gray’s anatomy and two books on neurosurgery. He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Back, neck, arm, leg pain Neuromodulation Movement disorders - Parkinson's disease, dystonia, tremor Pain Spinal tumours Spinal surgery Spinal cord injury Hydrocephalus