He completed his neurosurgery residency at the State University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 2005. He then moved to France for his clinical fellowships and Master’s in Surgical Sciences at the University of Paris XI and XII. He first worked at the CHU Bicetre and at the Rothschild Foundation Hospital.
After his fellowships, Dr. Pereira worked as the Head of the Interventional Neuroradiology division at the University Hospital of Geneva from 2008-2014.
Dr. Pereira moved to Toronto to work at the University of Toronto in 2014. His passion and drive for innovation in clinical research continued ever since as he was involved in many study executive committees. He worked at the Toronto Western Hospital and SickKids Hospital for six years before joining St Michael’s Hospital.
He is the lead scientist of the RADIS lab, which focuses on studying new technologies and their potential applications to neurointervention, including computational fluid dynamics, dynamic diagnostic imaging, cone beam CT, optical flow imaging, low field MRI, genetics, artificial intelligence, and robotics. The lab focuses on leveraging these technologies to improve the outcomes of patients with neurovascular diseases. They perform many research and innovative translational projects, and, most recently, they completed the world’s first robotic neurovascular intervention and a probe-based microscopic brain imaging (former neuro-dedicated OCT).
He aims to promote innovation and translation to improve procedure safety and precision. In the future, his vision is to expand the endovascular practice to other conditions that benefit from an imaging-guided minimally invasive approach, including subdural hematomas, intracranial hemorrhage, hydrocephalus, venous congestion-related conditions, brain-machine interface, neurostimulation and remote robotic endovascular stroke treatments.
Dr. Pereira is engaged in education in neuroradiology, neurosurgery, biomedical engineering, and basic sciences. He recently became a co-director of the LINNC conferences, one of the most comprehensive educational platforms in neurointervention, consisting of four annual meetings in North America, Europe (Paris), Asia, and China.