{"id":4108,"date":"2015-10-07T06:49:45","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T11:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/?p=4108"},"modified":"2017-06-27T15:37:06","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T20:37:06","slug":"flexner-discovery-lecture-hearing-restoration-via-cochlear-implants-achievements-and-future-challenges-for-engineering-and-research-thursday-october-8-4pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/flexner-discovery-lecture-hearing-restoration-via-cochlear-implants-achievements-and-future-challenges-for-engineering-and-research-thursday-october-8-4pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Flexner Discovery Lecture- Hearing Restoration via Cochlear Implants: Achievements and Future Challenges for Engineering and Research, Thursday October 8, 4pm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The co-creator of the world\u2019s first microelectronic multi-channel cochlear implant \u2014 a device that provides sound signals to the brain in deaf individuals \u2014 will deliver the next Flexner Discovery Lecture.<\/p>\n<p>Ingeborg Hochmair, Ph.D., CEO and CTO of cochlear implant manufacturer MED-EL Corporation, will speak on Thursday, Oct. 8.<\/p>\n<p>Her lecture, \u201cHearing Restoration via Cochlear Implants: Achievements and Future Challenges for Engineering and Research,\u201d begins at 4 p.m. in 208 Light Hall. It is sponsored by the ¹ú²ú´«Ã½ Bill Wilkerson Center and the Department of Otolaryngology.<\/p>\n<p>Hochmair and her husband Erwin Hochmair, D.Tech., worked together at Vienna University of Technology to design and develop a device that could stimulate the auditory nerve at several locations within the cochlea. Their device, a microelectronic multi-channel cochlear implant, was first implanted in 1977.<\/p>\n<p>Ingeborg Hochmair received the 2013 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award together with Graeme Clark and Blake Wilson for developing the modern cochlear implant.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.vanderbilt.edu\/2015\/10\/hochmair-set-for-next-discovery-lecture\/\">http:\/\/news.vanderbilt.edu\/2015\/10\/hochmair-set-for-next-discovery-lecture\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The co-creator of the world\u2019s first microelectronic multi-channel cochlear implant \u2014 a device that provides sound signals to the brain in deaf individuals \u2014 will deliver the next Flexner Discovery Lecture. Ingeborg Hochmair, Ph.D., CEO and CTO of cochlear implant manufacturer MED-EL Corporation, will speak on Thursday, Oct. 8. Her lecture, \u201cHearing Restoration via Cochlear&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4110,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[231],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/193\/2019\/03\/19171010\/Hochmair.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p98pzF-14g","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4108"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4112,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4108\/revisions\/4112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}