Ellis Douek FRCS (25 April 1934 – 20 May 2024) was a British surgeon and cochlear implant pioneer.
Ellis Douek | |
|---|---|
| Born | 25 April 1934 Cairo, Egypt |
| Died | 20 May 2024 (aged 90) London, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation(s) | surgeon and cochlear implant pioneer |
| Relatives | Claudia Roden (sister) |
Background
editDouek was born in Cairo, Egypt on 25 April 1934, the son of Cesar Elie Douek and his wife Nelly Sassoon.[1][2][3] His parents were both from Syrian-Jewish merchant families, and he grew up in Zamalek, Cairo, with his sister Claudia, and brother Zaki.[4][2]
Douek died on 20 May 2024, at the age of 90.[5]
Career
edit- Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons[6]
- Consultant Otologist, 1970–99, now Emeritus, Guy's Hospital[6]
- Chairman, Hearing Research Group, 1974–99, Guy's Hospital[6]
- Member Medical Research Council (United Kingdom) working party on Hearing Research, 1975[6]
- Medical Research Council Representative to European Communities on Hearing Research 1980[6]
- UK Representative to European Communities on Industrial Deafness 1983[6]
- Dalby Prize for hearing research, Royal Society of Medicine, 1978[6]
Cochlear implants
editThis section contains too many or overly lengthy quotations. (April 2017) |
"During the 1970s, a group in the United Kingdom, headed by Ellis Douek, began experimenting with an extracochlear electrode that was stationed on the promontory near the round window ... this device created a great deal of interest because it was judge to be the more conservative, less invasive, approach."[7]
"In Britain ... [I]t all started in the early 1970s, soon after Ellis Douek's appointment to a senior ear, nose and throat post at London’s Guy's Hospital. The Department of Health, prompted by a deafened Member of Parliament active on behalf of the disabled (Jack Ashley, now Lord Ashley), suggested to Douek that his speciality was doing far too little on sensorineural deafness, and why didn't he do something in that area?"[8]
Autobiographies
editDouek is the author of the autobiography A Middle Eastern Affair (2004) ISBN 978-1870015875, and the medical memoir To Hear Again, To Sing Again (2022).[9]
References
edit- ^ https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-jewish-chronicle/20110304/283287454146938. Retrieved 2 April 2018 – via PressReader.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ a b "Jews of Egypt, with Dr Ellis Douek". harif.org. 17 August 2013. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
- ^ "Claudia Roden | Jewish Women's Archive". Jwa.org. 2009-03-20. Retrieved 2012-03-27.
- ^ Pownall, Elfreda (13 July 2014). "Claudia Roden: an interview with the champion of Middle Eastern food". Retrieved 2 April 2018 – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
- ^ "Ellis Douek". The Jewish Chronicle. 12 July 2024. Retrieved 14 September 2024.
- ^ a b c d e f g Who's Who 2017, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2017; http://www.ukwhoswho.com
- ^ Clinical Management of Children With Cochlear Implants, Second Edition edited by Laurie S. Eisenberg, Plural Publishing San Diego, p .7; ISBN 1-944883-24-X
- ^ The Artificial Ear: Cochlear Implants and the Culture of Deafness, Stuart Blume, Rutgers University Press, New Jersey, 2010, p. 41; ISBN 0-8135-4911-6
- ^ Douek, Ellis (2022). To Hear Again, to Sing Again. doi:10.1142/12811. ISBN 978-981-12-5543-4. S2CID 246399992.