Ellis Douek | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1934-04-25)25 April 1934 Cairo, Egypt |
| Died | 20 May 2024(2024-05-20) (aged 90) London, England |
| Occupations | Surgeon and cochlear implant pioneer |
| Relatives | Claudia Roden (sister) |
Ellis Douek FRCS (25 April 1934 – 20 May 2024) was a British surgeon and cochlear implant pioneer.
Biography
Douek 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 was a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons during his early career.[5] He worked as a consultant otologist at Guy's Hospital between 1970 and 1999, later taking on the title of Emeritus.[5] He became chairman of the hospital's Hearing Research Group in 1974 and held the position until 1999.[5] This group experimented with an "extracochlear electrode that was stationed on the promontory near the round window"[6][7] at the behest of the Department of Health, which had been encouraged by Deaf MP Jack Ashley.[7] In 1975, he was a member of the Medical Research Council's Hearing Research and, in 1978, the Royal Society of Medicine awarded him the Dalby Prize for hearing research.[5] He served as the Medical Research Council Representative to the European Communities on Hearing Research in 1980 and as the UK Representative to European Communities on Industrial Deafness in 1983.[5]
Douek died on 20 May 2024, at the age of 90.[8]
Autobiographies
Douek 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
- ^ Simon Rocker (4 March 2011). "Memories jogged to archive an exodus". Retrieved 2 April 2018 – via PressReader.
- ^ a b "Jews of Egypt, with Dr Ellis Douek". harif.org. 17 August 2013. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
- ^ "Claudia Roden". Jwa.org. Jewish Women's Archive. 20 March 2009. Retrieved 27 March 2012.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b c d e Who's Who 2017, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2017; 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
- ^ a b 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
- ^ "Ellis Douek". The Jewish Chronicle. 12 July 2024. Retrieved 14 September 2024.
- ^ Douek, Ellis (2022). To Hear Again, to Sing Again. doi:10.1142/12811. ISBN 978-981-12-5543-4. S2CID 246399992.
