• Title
  Item 1: Professor Bill Gibson interview by Louise Darmody
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  2 May 2023
• Type of material
  Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories
• Reference code
  9675606
• Physical Description
  1 audio file (1 hr., 16 min.) - digital, WAV, stereo (48 kHz, 24 bit)
  
• Scope and Content
  In this interview Professor Bill Gibson speaks about his life and career as a surgeon and professor specialising in Otolaryngology (the study of diseases of the ears, nose, and throat). He discusses implementing a program in NSW based on the pioneering work by Dr Graeme Clark and his team in Melbourne developing the ‘bionic ear’, and recalls early opposition from the medical, education, and Deaf communities in relation to operating on children to implant cochlear devices.
  Professor Gibson also talks about the landmark operation on
  five-year-old Holly McDonell, one of the first deaf children in the world to receive Cochlear implants and reflects on performing over 2000 Cochlear implant surgeries, his research, retirement, and the centres he has established in Australia to treat Meniere’s disease.
• Copying Conditions
  In copyright:
  Copyright holder:: State Library of New South Wales
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Recorded at Forbes Street Studios, Woolloomooloo, New South Wales on 2 May 2023
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Gibson, Bill (William Peter Rea), 1944-
  
• Subject
  Gibson, Bill (William Peter Rea), 1944---Interviews.
  Surgeons--New South Wales.
  Cochlear implants.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE20614921

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