Dr. João Carlos Pereira Gomes

Doctor at the Advanced Center for Geriatrics Hospital Sírio-Libanês

Geriatric

Dr. João Carlos Pereira Gomes is a doctor with a degree and doctorate from the University of São Paulo, with extensive experience in Internal Medicine, Geriatrics and Acupuncture. Its areas of activity include periodic clinical assessment and promotion of healthy aging, treatment of acute and chronic diseases in adults and the elderly, including dementia, depression, pain in the elderly and care for frail elderly people. He has specializations in Internal Medicine, Geriatrics and Acupuncture, and his work emphasizes quality of life and comprehensive, humanized patient care in the office, at home, in hospital and in emergency services.

• Assistant physician at Hospital das Clínicas of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of São Paulo, Division of Clinical Medicine, Emergency Medical Clinic Service since 1988.

• Doctor at the Advanced Geriatrics Center at Hospital Sírio-Libanês since 2010.

• Geriatrician at the Pain Center of the Neurological Clinic of the Hospital das Clínicas of the Faculty of Medicine of USP from 2004 to 2011.

• Coordinator of the Pain League at the FMUSP Hospital das Clínicas from 2006 to 2010.

• Specialization and Residency in Clinical Medicine at the Hospital das Clínicas of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of São Paulo, completed in 1987.

• Specialization in the XX Theoretical and Practical Course in Acupuncture by the Center for Integrated Studies of Chinese Medicine, completed in 2001.

• University extension in Basic Geriatrics Update Course at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of São Paulo (FMUSP), completed in 1994.

• The growing impact of older patients in the emergency department: a 5-year retrospective analysis in Brazil. Gomes JCP, Dias RD, de Barros JV, Velasco IT, Jacob Filho W. BMC Emerg Med. 2020 Jun 11;20(1):47. doi: 10.1186/s12873-020-00341-y. PMID: 32527325; PMCID: PMC7291438.

• Impact of BAL in the management of pneumonia with treatment failure: positivity of BAL culture under antibiotic therapy. Pereira Gomes JC, Pedreira WL Jr, Araújo EM, Soriano FG, Negri EM, Antonângelo L, Tadeu Velasco I. Chest. 2000 Dec;118(6):1739-46. doi: 10.1378/chest.118.6.1739. PMID: 11115467

• Legionella pneumophila associated with acute respiratory failure. First isolation in Brazil (1) [Legionella pneumophila associated with acute respiratory insufficiency. 1st isolation in Brazil]. Pereira Gomes JC, Mazieri NA, de Godoy CV, Rocha A dos S. Rev Inst Med Trop Sao Paulo. 1989 Nov-Dec;31(6):368-76. Portuguese. PMID: 2701194.

• Pain in the elderly. Gomes, João Carlos Pereira; Teixeira, Manoel Jacobsen. RBM rev. bras. med; 64(11,n.esp): 45-54, nov. 2007. illus, tab Article in Portuguese | LILACS, Health St. Sec. SP | ID: lil-471518 Responsible library: BR12.1

• Graduated in Medicine from the University of São Paulo, completed in 1985.

• Doctorate in Medical Sciences from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of São Paulo, completed in 2018.

• Brazilian Society of Geriatrics and Gerontology

• English

• Portuguese

• Spanish

• Alzheimer's disease

• Arterial hypertension

• Dementia

• Depression in the elderly

• Frailty syndrome

• Alzheimer's disease

• Dementia