Sergio Canabrava

Sergio Canabrava is a cataract surgeon at the Centro Oftalmológico de Minas Gerais (COMG) and the Santa Casa de Belo Horizonte in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, whose work centres on complex cataract surgery, including small pupils and subluxated lenses. Dr. Canabrava designed the Canabrava Ring, an open ring-shaped pupil expander first produced by 3D printing, and developed the double-flanged and four-flanged polypropylene techniques for sutureless scleral fixation of intraocular lenses and capsular devices, with results published in the Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery and Cornea. The ring won prizes at ESCRS 2015, the Brazilian Congress of Ophthalmology 2015 and BRASCRS 2016 and was the ESCRS Video of the Month in April 2016, and the four-flanged technique has been awarded at ESCRS and ASCRS meetings. In 2023 Dr. Canabrava presented the double-flanged technique on the main stage of the ASCRS Annual Meeting.