Sergio Cavalheiro MD, PhD

Dr. Sergio Cavalheiro, MD, PhD, is a Professor at Paulista School of Medicine - EPM-UNIFESP. He received his Medical School degree in 1981 from the Faculdade de Ciencias Medicas de Santos – Sao Paulo. He completed his residency in neurosurgery and post-graduate training at Paulista School of Medicine – São Paulo in 1987. In 1990, he did his post-graduate doctorate in Marseille – France training under Professor Maurice Choux – at Hospital Des Enfants de La Timone and received a foreign assistant certificate Aix-Provence II in 1991.

He is Chief of the neuro-oncology surgery department at Pediatric Oncology Instituto in 1999. In 2007, Cavalheiro was named Chair and Full Professor of the Division of Neurological Surgery at Paulista School of Medicine – São Paulo.

His research interests are Neurosurgery, Pediatric Neurosurgery, Pediatric Oncology, and Fetal Surgery.