Mr Pavi Agrawal

About

Mr Agrawal specialises in small incision cataract surgery and the medical and surgical management of glaucoma. Mr Agrawal’s training has been in international centres of excellence. In 2002, he graduated from Cambridge University UK, having read medicine at Downing College, Cambridge. He also holds a first-class honours degree in biochemistry. Following his residency training he completed a two-year medical and surgical glaucoma fellowship at the world prestigious Moorfields Eye Hospital, where he worked closely with two of the UK’s founding fathers of modern-day glaucoma filtration surgery. In conjunction with his post at the Bons Secours he holds a public consultant post at the Mater Misericordaie University Hospital where he delivers a regional and national complex cataract and glaucoma service and is the co-surgical lead for the complex glaucoma service. Prior to his appointment in Dublin, he held the post of Consultant Ophthalmologist and Honorary Assistant Professor at Nottingham University NHS Trust, UK for almost 10 years. He is fully revalidated by the General Medical Council and Irish Medical Council. 

Mr Agrawal has published over 25 peer reviewed scientific papers as well as written a book chapter in the world’s best selling glaucoma textbook for specialists. His dedication to ophthalmic teaching and research was recognized with the appointment to Honorary Assistant Professor by the University of Nottingham, School of Medicine. He also holds a distinction in a postgraduate diploma in cataract and refractive surgery conducted by Ulster University and approved by the Royal College of Ophthalmologists. 

Mr Agrawal has performed several thousand cataract operations with a complication rate significantly lower than the national average. He is vastly experienced in glaucoma filtration surgery including augmented trabeculectomy and aqueous-shunt tube surgery, and has performed hundreds of glaucoma laser treatments including selective laser trabeculoplasty and cyclodiode laser. Mr Agrawal is highly skilled in some of the latest minimally invasive glaucoma surgical (MIGS) treatments to help manage and stabilize glaucoma including the Preserflo Microshunt, viscocanaloplasty and trabeculotomy. He has successfully trained several international glaucoma fellows in these modern-day techniques all of whom have gone onto have very successful careers. Mr Agrawal is a fellow of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists as well as a member of the European Glaucoma Society and the UK & Eire Glaucoma Society.