Jerome Pereira

Professor Pereira was appointed on the 15th August 1994, Consultant Surgeon at the James Paget Healthcare NHS Trust and in 1997, Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of East Anglia.

Professor Pereira has been a UK national trainer for Consultants and Surgical Trainees on breast reconstruction operations for many years and teacher in the Department of Education at the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

He has a special interest in the outcomes of surgery, and has been instrumental in developing and leading the national mastectomy and breast reconstruction audit programme. This is the first study in the world looking at outcomes of breast cancer surgery, and the largest patient outcomes study ever carried out in the UK.

Professor Pereira has demonstrated various surgical techniques at local, national and international levels, including performance of live-link television operations to consultant surgeons.

1. Trust Lead for Medical School (accademic sub-dean role) developed high quality secondary care teaching resulting in University Hosptial status for JPUH – 2007.

2. As member of the Curriculum Development Team I played a key role in shaping a secondary care program particularly in increasing surgical teaching.- 2006.

3. Examiner for final MBBS, MD, MSc at UEA & overseas assessor for health sciences/MBBS degree program, University of Brunei – 2007.

4. Exam writing panel for MBBS OSCE's, MCQ's & PLAB exams (GMC).

5. Curriculum development for RCS courses - oncoplastic skills & breast disease management (2007) & planned MS oncoplastic breast surgery – ongoing.

6. Eastern Regional RCS Breast Tutor, conducting full-day operating training days in oncoplastic breast surgery/video-link operations & lectures - 2005 - ongoing.

7. Maintained CPD attending "Teaching the Breast Trainers Course", RCSeng - 2007 & "Advanced Communication & Materclass in Communication Skills" – 2007.

8. The National University Guide 2009, (Guardian newspaper) has given UEA 6th place for medicine including second best for quality of education. The school achieved second place in the National Student Survey – 2008.

9. Awards for teaching & training - received honorary professorship, UEA - 2009, FRCS ad uendeum - 2008, Associate of Higher Education.

Professor Pereira one of the founding members of Norwich Medical School, and leads the undergraduate programme at the James Paget University Hospitals. He has a strong interest in postgraduate education, and has led the development of Specialist Mastership programmes in breast and colorectal surgery, and is currently Programme Director to this innovative training programme, which provides the highest postgraduate qualification for these specialities. He is also examiner for European Breast Specialist Examination Board (EBSQ), MD and MSc degree programmes.