Dr Colin Brown is a specialist Otolaryngologist-Head and Neck Surgeon
(Ear Nose and Throat Surgeon).
He is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (since 1995) and qualified in medicine 1986 (University of Otago). He is President of the Australasian society of Paediatric Otolaryngology.

While he cares for most types of disorders of the head and neck region and sinuses, he specialises in surgery of the ear. He is the consultant ear surgeon to Starship Children's Hospital, treating and operating on a wide range of ear diseases, deformities and deafness. He is also a Senior Lecturer in Surgery at the University of Auckland.

Dr Brown co-ordinates the Starship Microtia- Atresia multidisciplinary clinic, and multi disciplinary meetings concerning the care of deaf children and their progress with cochlear implants and hearing aids.