JOÃO PAULO CAVALCANTE DE ALMEIDA
Estados Unidos


Associate Professor, Indiana University

Dr. João Paulo Almeida obtained his medical degree at The School of Medicine of The Universidade Federal do Ceará and did his Neurosurgery residency at State University of Campinas (UNICAMP). After residency, he worked with Dr. Evandro de Oliveira and his team at the Institute of Neurological Sciences, in Sao Paulo, and at the State University of Campinas. In 2017, relocated to North America and underwent clinical fellowships at the Toronto Western Hospital / University of Toronto in Neuro-oncology and Skull Base Surgery and Cerebrovascular Surgery; and additionally worked as an Advanced Endoscopic and Open Skull Base Surgery Fellow at Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH. He worked as Assistant Professor / Associate Surgeon at Mayo Clinic Florida, from 2021 to 2024, with focus on Neuro-oncology and Skull Base Surgery as well as Supervisor of the Neurosurgical Anatomy Research Fellowship at the Skull Base Lab at Mayo Clinic Florida.

Dr. Almeida has a strong commitment to academic neurosurgery. He has authored and co-authored over 110 peer-reviewed papers, 75 neurosurgical meeting presentations, and 30 book chapters, in addition to collaborations in microsurgical courses and academic teaching activities in international centers. His main areas of research are open and endoscopic skull base surgery, neuro-oncology and microsurgical anatomy. He is the upcoming Director of Skull Base Surgery at IU Health and Robert L. Campbell Professor, Associate Professor of The Department of Neurosurgery at Indiana University, Indianapolis.