Reviews
I found Dr Pereira to be very open and honest as he explained the long process of DBS surgery to myself and my wife. He took his time, was relaxed and responded to all questions. He is extremely easy to talk to and his confident approach is v reassuring. We both felt inspired by him and knew I was in good hands. He came to see me immediately after the surgery in the recovery area. He calmly gave us an update of how the operation had gone and ensured we knew how to contact him and others if there were any issues during recovery and post operatively.
We'd like to thank him and the entire team involved in my surgery and stay at St George's, it was an excellent experience.
Dr Pereira performed my DBS surgery last October. He took on board all my concerns and acted on them although it made the surgery more complicated for him. He carried out the surgery without shaving any but the smallest patch of my very long hair and placed the battery at the top of my breast where it is invisible except with the lowest of necklines. Psychologically it helped so much. After fine tuning the stimulator I am feeling much better and can't thank him and the St Georges team enough.
Mr Pereira is quite simply the best of the best. Although his own brain must be the size of a small country and he has a talent given to very few people in the world, his ego is tiny and his compassion and humanity are great .DBS is not everyone's idea of fun but he took time to explain it in the weeks before the operation in layman's language, he was open and honest about the risks, and on the day itself he had an air of quiet authority which was immensely reassuring .And he was kind.
In my view, MrPereira is a credit to neurosurgery, to the whole medical profession and to mankind..
.MB
I have complete faith in Mr Pereira as a neurosurgeon. My experiences with him have all been positive, and although having DBS was a somewhat daunting operation to say the least, he took me through it and I came out the other side. The after care I have received has been amazing second to nun.. I cannot rate the Doctors the Surgeons and the nursing specialists highly enough. Their enthusiasm is amazing, I have been very humbled by the whole ex[perience of being a patient at St Georges. I cannot rate Mr Pereira highly enough, and I should like to include the rest of my amazing team Dr Francesca Morgante, who is determined to get me leading a "normal" life, and CNS Alison Leake who is always at the end of a phone, and Dr Pavoire at whose suggestion started the whole operation!!!. A heartfelt thanks to you all,.
I was fortunate to have been referred to the renowned Neurosurgery Department of St George's.
Mr Pereira was easy to talk to you, explained things clearly and I knew that I was in very safe hands with a Consultant Neurosurgeon of his expertise and experience.
My sincere thanks are due to him for his help in relieving my pain.
Patrick Lines.
Specialises in
- Neurosurgery
- Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery
- Pain medicine
Profile
Mr. Pereira is a London Consultant Neurosurgeon who sees patients at St George's University Hospital, London Spine Clinic and The London Clinic. He has a broad practice of brain, spine and peripheral nerve surgery. 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 in 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 to trauma, tumour and minimally invasive surgery and general brain surgery including trauma, benign lesions, vascular problems and hydrocephalus. He is the lead clinician for functional neurosurgery at St George’s and performed its first deep brain stimulation for Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders, pain and epilepsy operations.