Timoteo Almeida, MD, MSc, PhD

Timoteo Almeida, MD, MSc, PhD, is an assistant professor in the University of Pittsburgh Department of Neurological Surgery, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Radiation Oncology. He is a dual-trained neurosurgeon and radiation oncologist whose clinical work integrates functional neurosurgery, neuromodulation, MRI-guided focused ultrasound, and stereotactic radiosurgery.

Dr. Almeida’s clinical interests include deep brain stimulation for Parkinson’s disease, essential tremor, and dystonia; MRI-guided focused ultrasound; surgical treatment of refractory pain syndromes; spinal cord stimulation; trigeminal neuralgia and other facial pain syndromes; Gamma Knife and LINAC-based stereotactic radiosurgery; stereotactic radiotherapy; and radiosurgery for brain tumors, skull-base tumors, spinal tumors, and vascular malformations. Because his training spans microsurgery, neuromodulation, ablation, radiosurgery, and radiation therapy, he helps patients and referring physicians consider surgical, neuromodulatory, ablative, radiosurgical, and radiation-based options for complex neurological conditions.

Dr. Almeida completed neurological surgery residency at Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul in Brazil and radiation oncology residency at the University of Miami Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. He completed fellowship training in stereotactic and functional neurosurgery at the University of British Columbia under Christopher Honey, MD, PhD, and in stereotactic radiosurgery and functional neurosurgery at the UPMC Center for Image-Guided Neurosurgery with L. Dade Lunsford, MD, and Jorge González-Martínez, MD, PhD. He also holds a PhD in surgery from the University of São Paulo, with additional research training in skull base microsurgery at Weill Cornell Medicine.

Dr. Almeida has authored more than 50 scholarly works, including peer-reviewed publications, book chapters, and national/international abstracts. His research focuses on long-term outcomes after stereotactic radiosurgery for trigeminal neuralgia, meningiomas, pituitary tumors, arteriovenous malformations, and brain metastases, as well as neuromodulatory applications of focused ultrasound. He is an investigator with the International Radiosurgery Research Foundation and serves as co-principal investigator of the TUNE Trial, a study of low-intensity focused ultrasound neuromodulation in drug-resistant epilepsy.

Committed to surgical and oncologic education, Dr. Almeida develops open-access educational resources for trainees and contributes to scholarly educational projects in functional neurosurgery, stereotactic radiosurgery, CNS oncology, and radiation oncology. His research work has been recognized with the Resident Research Award from the University of Miami Department of Radiation Oncology. His doctoral thesis was selected by the Graduate Program in Surgery at the University of São Paulo Ribeirão Preto School of Medicine as its institutional nominee for the national best thesis competition.

Dr. Almeida’s publications can be reviewed through the National Library of Medicine’s publication database.