About Dr Brendan Cronin
Dr Brendan Cronin is an Ophthalmologist at Queensland Eye Institute, Brisbane.
Cornea, Cataract and Laser Eye Surgeon
MBBS (Hons), DipOphthSci, B.Com, LLB, FRANZCO
Dr Brendan Cronin is an ophthalmologist with subspecialty training in cataract surgery and diseases of the cornea and anterior segment. He grew up on the Gold Coast and moved to Brisbane to study Medicine at the University of Queensland where he completed his degree with honours. He completed his specialty ophthalmology training in Brisbane and then undertook further subspecialty training in laser eye surgery and diseases of the cornea at the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital in England.
Dr Cronin consults at the Queensland Eye Institute’s two locations – South Brisbane and Clayfield. He performs all of his surgery at South Brisbane Day Hospital in South Brisbane. He is involved in training registrars in Queensland and has published articles in numerous international peer reviewed journals. He is regularly involved in international clinical trials and holds worldwide patents involving collagen cross linking.
Together with Dr Gunn, he developed the world’s first CAIRS surgical planning website to educate surgeons and bring this transformative and cutting edge surgery to more people with keratoconus. www.CAIRSplan.com
Procedures Dr Brendan Cronin performs:
Micro-incision cataract surgery
Sutureless Pterygium surgery
Keratoconus surgery including LASER “Athen’s Protocol” corneal resurfacing combined with collagen cross-linking and Corneal Allogenic Intrastromal Ring Segments “CAIRS”
Collagen Cross-linking with Australia’s most advanced and only pupil tracking topography guided collagen cross linking machine
LASIK, PRK and ASA laser eye surgery