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Dr. John M. Fredrickson graduated in medicine from the University of British Columbia. After three years of post-graduate training in medicine, pathology, and surgery, he entered the otolaryngology residency at the University of Chicago. Following his residency, as a member of that faculty, he spent two years in the Department of Neurophysiology at the University of Freiburg, Germany, as a visiting NIH investigator. He accepted an assistant professorship at Stanford University and later went on to the University of Toronto as a professor in the Department of Otolaryngology. In 1982 he became the Lindburg Professor and Head of the Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery at Washington University School of Medicine.
Dr. Fredrickson has played a significant role in academic otolaryngology. He served as president of the American Laryngological Association, was a member of the Bŕrány Society executive, and chaired the Examining Committee for Otolaryngology in the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. He recently retired as a member of the American Board of Otolaryngology. He served as editor of the American Journal of Otolaryngology and has long been a member of the prestigious Collegium Oto-Rhino-Laryngologicum. He was chairman of the Research Committee for the American Academy of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery and program chairman for the American Society for Head and Neck Surgery. He has been a member of grant review committees for the Medical Research Council of Canada and the National Institutes of Health.
He has made significant research contributions to the fields of vestibular neurophysiology, microvascular reconstructive surgery of the head and neck, and implantable prostheses for voice and hearing restoration. Recognition for his research has included an honorary Ph.D. from the University of Linköping, Sweden. Dr. Fredrickson first had the idea to improve hearing by coupling a vibrator to the ossicles while at the University of Toronto in 1970. Over the years he continued to develop this idea, and in 1985 his work on an implantable hearing prosthesis became a formal research project in collaboration with the Storz Instrument Company at the Washington University School of Medicine. The results of this research later provided the foundation for the Carina Fully Implantable Hearing Device. | 