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2025 Lifetime Achievement Award

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Dr. Bruce Gantz to Receive ACI Alliance Lifetime Achievement Award at CI2025 Boston

 Dr. Bruce Gantz will receive the American Cochlear Implant   Alliance (ACI Alliance) 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award at   the Opening Session of CI2025 Boston. The Lifetime   Achievement award recognizes the contributions over the   whole of a career and for the work and accomplishments of   the individual being recognized.

  Dr. Gantz is a Professor of Otolaryngology at the University   of Iowa, and completed his undergraduate work as well as   his MD and MA degrees at the University of Iowa as well.     He has devoted his career to advancing cochlear implant   technology and expanding indications  for implantation.   Dr. Gantz implanted the first cochlear implant at the University of Iowa in 1980 and in 1987 he was the first in the United States to implant a congenitally deaf child with a multi-channel cochlear implant.  He helped established the Iowa Cochlear Implant Clinical Research Center in 1985. In that role, he has led research that demonstrated longevity of hearing preservation for over 20 years in listeners with acoustic and electric signal processing, which has significantly expanded eligibility criteria for those who obtained little benefit from their hearing aids.  One of the main objectives of his research is to further develop our understanding of how the brain processes speech in demanding listening environments by examining critical issues across all levels of the auditory system.

Dr. Gantz has authored over 270 peer-reviewed manuscripts and held offices in multiple professional organizations in the field, including being a founding board member of the American Cochlear Implant Alliance.  His significant contributions to teaching, research, and clinical medicine have profoundly impacted the way we carry out cochlear implantation in the US and around the world impacting the profession of otolaryngology and transforming the lives of many thousands of children and adults with profound hearing loss.

*For more information on the Lifetime Achievement Award:

Lifetime Achievement Award - American Cochlear Implant Alliance

*For more information on CI2025 Boston: https://ci2025boston.org