by hifla | Jul 22, 2021 | Faculty Spotlight, House Institute Foundation, Uncategorized
John Galvin (second from the left) performing an experimental show in Northampton, MA in 2018. Third from the left, a musician friend plays an amplified saw. John Galvin, PhD has been a cochlear implant researcher for more than twenty years pursuing a range of...
by hifla | Jun 15, 2021 | Donor Spotlight – Your Stories, House Institute Foundation
By Javia Headley, Marketing Communications Manager Jason Jacobs was the first patient at the House Institute to receive the new Cochlear™ Osia® System, an active osseointegrated steady state implant system using digital piezoelectric stimulation. The Osia Implant is...
by hifla | Jun 15, 2021 | House Institute Foundation, Research
By John Galvin, PhD and Javia Headley, Marketing Communications Manager Cochlear implant research at The House Institute started in 1957 when a patient alerted William House, MD, to the work of Andre Djourno. Djourno was a neurophysicist who implanted an electrode...
by hifla | Jun 15, 2021 | House Institute Foundation, In-House Treatments & Innovations
By Mia Miller, MD and Helena Wichova, MD In the last two decades, superior semicircular canal dehiscence syndrome has become a more familiar diagnosis. Patients usually complain of sound and pressure-induced dizziness, trouble hearing, ear fullness, and hearing one’s...
by hifla | Jun 15, 2021 | Education, House Institute Foundation
By Javia Headley, Marketing Communications Manager An effective tool in medical education and the provision of top-of-the-line patient care is the grand rounds methodology, which consists of presenting the medical problems of a particular patient to an audience of...
by hifla | Jun 15, 2021 | Faculty Spotlight, House Institute Foundation
By John Galvin, PhD As some of you may know, our dear friend and colleague Steven Otto passed away recently after a long battle with leukemia. Steve was a mainstay at the House Institute for more than 30 years. He was vital to the development and success of the...
