Graeme Clark
Graeme Milbourne Clark was born August 16 1935 in Camden, New South Wales. He was an important figure in the development of the cochlear implant and now works as a doctor. He was educated at The Scots College and studied medicine at the Sydney University. He has been awarded the Lasker - DeBakey award, Senior Australian Of The Year as well as the James Cook medal just to name a few.
Cochlear Implants
A cochlear implant is a medical device that essentially does the job of the damaged parts of the inner ear (cochlea) and sends sound signals to the brain (cochlear implant – a device that can be surgically placed into a person’s cochlea to give them the ability to hear things.). Graeme Clark and a team of scientists worked together in Melbourne, 1970 to create the cochlear implant. It was 1966 when Graeme left an ear, nose and throat practice in Melbourne to research at the University of Sydney on how the brain would respond to electrical stimulation for coding sound. He then continued his work at the University of Melbourne before a clinical trial in Melbourne was successful. In 1985 the first multiple – channel cochlear implant was approved by the FDA (US Food and Drug Administration).
The Advantages
Cochlear implants have impacted society …show more content…
Where there are ups there are downs, and the cochlear implant definitely has its fair share of downs. There are things like cost issues, programming issues and even surgical ones. But the two things that I think are the biggest issues are the fact that the battery has a much shorter battery life compared to hearing aids and the battery will die without notice. If this occurs, it creates quite an uncomfortable situation for the user as they suddenly cannot hear anything. And since the battery life is very short it makes it very inconvenient and to make matters worse, the battery cost is very