More than 40 years on and after thousands of procedures, Bruce Gantz, MD, vividly remembers how his first patient reacted when she received her cochlear implant in the early 1980s just as these devices were being introduced in the U.S. 

In the more than four decades since that day, Gantz and his team have remained at the forefront of cochlear implant science, making major contributions to the technology that now allows thousands of children and adults with moderate to profound hearing loss to perceive and make sense of the auditory world.