Professor Lawrence Hirst
MBBS Hons (Qld) MD (Qld) MPH (Hopkins) DO (Melb) FRANZCO, RACS, Cert.Am.Bd.Ophth
Cornea and External Diseases

Lawrence Hirst was educated at Brisbane Grammar School, and in his final year was scholastically ranked seventeenth in Queensland out of four thousand students. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Queensland in 1969 with a MBBS (First class Honours). Since then his career has become a list of high achievements ot some of the finest medical institutions in the United States of America and in Australia. He has worked at the John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, and at the Bethesda Eye Institute in St Lous University, Missouri.

Professor Hirst's clinical achivements are well-known and include:-

Corneoscleral Grafts: used in patients with severe infections of the front of the eye, many of them referred to Professor Hirst for removal of the eye, in some case Professor Hirst has been able to stabilize the condition to the point of non-removal and in several cases has been able to retain the patient's vision by surgical replacement of the front of the eye.

Tissue adhesive: New techniques for the application of tissue adhesives in perforated eyes have been introduced by Professor Hirst. This has saved eyes in elderly patients, who previously would have lost their eyes because of the infection and haemorrhage.

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