MBBS (hons) GradDipOphthSc, B.Com, LLB FRANZCO
Dr Brendan Cronin is a Corneal and Refractive Surgeon at the Queensland Eye Institute.
Dr Cronin grew up on the Gold Coast and completed his medical training at the University of Queensland Medical School in Brisbane. He has international experience have trained in his subspecialty of Corneal, Refractive and Anterior Segment Surgery at the prestigious Manchester Royal Eye Hospital in the United Kingdom. He performs all types of corneal transplant surgery, pterygium surgery, cataract surgery and refractive surgery. Dr Cronin has a special interest in keratoconus especially LASER “Athen’s Protocol” corneal regularisation combined with collagen cross-linking and Corneal Allogenic Intrastromal Ring Segments or “CAIRS”. Together with Dr David Gunn, he developed www.cairsplan.com. This pioneering website is used by surgeons globally to both learn the CAIRS procedure and to plan their surgical procedures.
Dr Cronin is regularly invited to speak at conferences internationally, has published articles in numerous international ophthalmology journals, has written two textbooks, holds international patents in corneal cross lining technology and is a member of The European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, The Cornea Society, The Refractive Surgery Alliance, is a founding fellow of the World college of Refractive Surgery and Visual Sciences and is a fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmology.
Dr Cronin performs all of his refractive surgery work through Focus Vision Clinic which is co-located with QEI in Woolloongabba.
When he isn’t at work Dr Cronin enjoys spending time with his wife and 2 daughters.
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