Michael A. McMann, M.D., the founder and medical director of the McMann Eye Institute, has 19 years of experience in ophthalmology and provides a wealth of knowledge and expertise to every patient under his care. To date, Dr. McMann has performed more than 10,000 surgical procedures. He has also performed LASIK on many physicians and their spouses, making him the trusted choice for refractive surgery amongst his peers.

He specializes in surgical and medical management of corneal disorders, cataract and refractive surgery, as well as general eye care. He is a board-certified ophthalmologist and a fellowship-trained surgeon in cornea, external disease and refractive surgery. Dr. McMann has extensive training and experience in cornea and refractive surgery. His surgical and clinical expertise includes advanced techniques for cataract surgery, corneal transplant surgery, anterior segment reconstruction and management of corneal and external diseases.

Dr. McMann has been honored with many awards, including HONOLULU Magazine’s Top Doctor award for three consecutive years, “Best of Leeward O‘ahu in Laser Vision Correction” for six consecutive years, as well as Honolulu Advertiser’s “Best of the Best” Official People’s Choice Award.

Why do we start to need reading glasses or bifocals when we get over the age of 40?
This is a natural aging process called presbyopia, which occurs in everyone during their early- to mid-forties. When we’re younger, our natural lens inside the eye is very flexible. There is a muscle that wraps around our natural lens and when it squeezes our natural lens changes its shape and its focusing power. However, when we reach our forties our natural lens loses its flexibility, and thus loses its variable focusing powers, leading to the eye beginning to behave more like a single-focus lens. As a result, our eye transitions from acting like a multi-focus camera during our younger years to acting like a fixed-focus camera when we reach our forties.