Joao Paulo Cavalcante de Almeida, M.D., Ph.D.

Dr. João Paulo Almeida is a neurosurgeon specialized in skull base surgery, pituitary surgery and neuro-oncology. He has a strong commitment to academic neurosurgery and has authored and co-authored over 80 peer-reviewed papers, 50 neurosurgical meeting presentations, and 25 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 obtained his medical degree at The School of Medicine of The Federal University of Ceara and did his Neurosurgery residency at State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), in Brazil. 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 additional training at the Toronto Western Hospital / University of Toronto as a Clinical Fellow 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 joined the Department of Neurosurgery at Mayo Clinic Florida, in 2021, with focus on Neuro-oncology and Skull Base Surgery.