Jim Patrick AO, Senior Vice President and Chief Scientist at Cochlear Limited has won the prestigious Clunies-Ross Lifetime Achievement award for his extraordinary contribution to cochlear implant technology.
Professor Jim Patrick is one of the original engineers who pioneered the development of the multichannel cochlear implant with Professor Graeme Clark. He is recognised as a world authority on cochlear implants.
He joined Professor Clark’s research team at The University of Melbourne in 1975. In 1981, after the first successful human implants were concluded, he moved to Sydney as a key member of the original three-man team, devoted to developing a ‘clinically applicable’ cochlear implant.
Currently, Associate Professor Patrick, Chief Scientist at Cochlear, has world-wide oversight of its global research program.
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