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Dr Tani Brown is a comprehensive ophthalmologist and eye surgeon based on the Gold Coast. She has a sub-specialist interest in medical retina, uveitis and ocular inflammatory conditions of the eye.
She completed her medical degree with honours at the University of Sydney. She then underwent her ophthalmology specialist training at the Sydney Eye Hospital and completed her final year as a fellow in East Timor as part of the East Timor Eye Program. In 2017 she was the Professorial fellow at Sydney Eye Hospital specialising in uveitis and medical retina and gaining valuable experience in the management of complex medical and surgical conditions of the eye.
Dr Brown holds a Masters of Public Health in Tropical Medicine from James Cook University as well as Postgraduate studies in Ophthalmology from the University of Sydney. She has numerous publications in the Australian and International ophthalmic literature and has lectured and tutored in a variety of undergraduate and postgraduate medical courses at the University of Sydney, University of Western Sydney and most recently Bond University. She currently holds the positions of an Honorary Adjunct Assistant Professor at Bond University and Clinical Lecturer at the University of Sydney.
Dr Brown is currently an anatomy examiner for the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologist (RANZCO).
Dr Brown is a consultant ophthalmologist at the Gold Coast University Hospital where she enjoys managing complex ocular conditions and supervising and training ophthalmology registrars. She regularly returns and volunteers with the East Timor Eye Program to provide ongoing teaching and support to the local eye health service.
Dr Tani Brown is a familiar face at Gold Coast Private these days but part of her heart will always remain with the people she
Brown T, Tan T, Cheng J, Taylor P, Watson, S. The Diagnostic Value of PCR in Acanthamoeba Keratitis. Clin Experiment Ophthalmol, 2012 Dec 40:29.
Brown TM, Masselos K, Wang LW, Figueira EC, Francis IC, Wilcsek G. Presumed Nasolacrimal Endometriosis – Correspondence. Ophthalmic Plastic and
Reconstructive Surgery. 2009.
Brown TM, Pandya VB, Masselos K, Wang LW, Lee K, Figueira EC. Francis IC. A prospective randomized treatment study comparing three treatment options for chalazia: triamcinolone acetonide injections, incision and curettage and treatment with hot compresses – Comment. Clin Experiment Ophthalmol. 2008 May ; 36(4):394-5.
Brown TM, Masselos K., Figueira E.C. Dauber S.L. Pandya V.B. Wilcsek G.A. Francis I.C. “Assisted local anaesthesia for endoscopic dacryocystorhinostomy – Comment. Clin Experiment Ophthalmol. 2008 Jan-Feb;36(1):101.
Brown T, Dauber S, Figueira E, Pandya V, Masselos K, Francis I “ Congruency in Homonymous Hemianopia. Am. J Ophthalmol. 2007 Nov; 144(5):786.
Grodski S, Brown T, Sidhu S, Gill A, Robinson B, Leroyd D, Sywak S, Reeve T and Delbridge L. Increasing incidence of thyroid cancer is due to increased pathologic detection. Surgery. 2008 Dec; 144 (6): 1038-1043.
Abraham SF, Brown T, Boyd C, Luscombe G, Russell J. Quality of life: eating disorders. Aust N Z J Psychiatry 2006 Feb; 40(2):150-5.
Pandya VB, Masselos K, Brown TM, Figueira EC, Wilcsek G, Francis IC. Upper eye lid laxity. Ophthalmology. 2009 Jan;116(1):170-170.
Masselos K, Lee KJ, Brown TM, Wang LW, Figueira EC, Pandya VB, Francis IC.
Phacoemulsification training. Arch Ophthalmol. 2008 Nov;126(11):1608
Figueira EC, Wang LW, Brown TM, Masselos K, Pandya VB, Dauber SL, Lee KJY, Amjadi S, Skalicky S and Francis IC. The grape: An appropriate model for continuous curvilinear capsulorhexis. J. Cataract Refract Surg 2008 Sep; 34(9):1610-1611.
Dauber SL, Masselos K, Brown TM, Figuera EC, Pandya VB, Francis IC. Atypical Retinitis Pigmentosa Masquerading as Primary Open Angle Glaucoma. Letter to the Editor. Journal of Glaucoma. 17(3):248, April/May 2008
Masselos K, Wang LW, Amjadi S, Brown TM, Figueira EC, Francis IC.
Simultaneous eyelid and choroidal metastases 36 years after diagnosis of medullary thyroid carcinoma. Ophthal Plast Reconstr Surg. 2008 Sep-Oct;24(5):430; author reply 430-1.
Borovik, AM, Skalicky SE, Masselos K, Brown TM, Dauber SL, Pandya VB, Figueira EC, Francis IC. The TAHITI approach to cataract surgery consent. J. Cataract Refract Surg 2008 Feb; 34(2):180-1.
Brown T “Lessons from the back of a truck – adventures in Mozambique” Sydney University Medical Journal 2005.
“Is Strabismus surgery in Mitochondrial Myopathy worthwhile?”
RANZCO – Annual Scientific Meeting, Melbourne Nov 2008.
Brown TM, Sue C and Tan K
Phacoemulsification in 2008: an Australian Experience”
RANZCO – Annual Scientific Meeting, Melbourne Nov 2008.
Primary Presenter and Second Author
“Increasing Incidence of Thyroid Cancer is Due to Increased Pathological Detection”
The American Association of Endocrine Surgeons – Annual Meeting, Monterey California, April 2008
Grodski S, Brown T, Sidhu S, Gill A, Robinson B, Learoyd D, Sywak M, Reeve T and
Delbridge L.
“Aniridia and Glaucoma: Phenotypic Associations and Outcome”
Biennial Sydney Eye Hospital Conference, Sydney July 2008.
Primary Author and presenter
“Aniridia and Glaucoma: Phenotypic Associations and Outcome”
ANZGIG – Australia and New Zealand Glaucoma Interest Group, April 2008.
Primary author and presenter
“Surgeons management of symmetrical cataract”
COSSOM – Scientific Meeting, Prince of Wales Hospital, December 2007.
Brown TM and Hennessy MP.
“Increasing incidence of thyroid cancer in retrosternal goitre”
The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Annual Scientific Congress, Christchurch, May 2007.
Grodski S, Brown T, Gill A, Sywak M, Sidhu S and Delbridge L.
“The Incidence of Malignancy in Retrosternal Goitre over the last 40 years”
NSW Surgical Registrars Paper Day, Sydney August 2006.
Brown TM, Grodski S, Sidhu S, Sywak M and Delbridge L.
Awarded best paper ; 2260 retrosternal goitres in a series of 13 793 thyroidectomies
