I came back from europe i'd seen so many things and came back with this new operation
the fenestration operation and my practice just boom because i was the only one who had
the ability to do this operation we had all these patients coming through so one of them
happened to be by the name of george eccles from salt lake city went home hearing throwing away
his hearing aid so he called a friend of his jean witter and said get your daughter right away down
to see howard house she goes to hospital operate go back to san francisco hearing
thrilled to death winter sent down 10 000 and george echols matched it so at twenty thousand
dollars in 1945 was a lot of money you see and so the institute first started with just
a little desk and a halftime secretary and to see where it's grown today seems unbelievable to me
as a matter of fact i just have to pinch myself to even believe it's true well as i look back part
of my life of course my baby has been two things the care of and the things we've been able to do
with the institute in the way of research i've always felt that it doesn't do any good
to do all this research unless you teach i love the work i'm doing but it's pleasure it's a joy
to help people so the future is bright very very bright and it's going to be wonderful
oh boy i love to hear him say that the future is bright very bright and you know the future
was bright you you said that in 2003 just a few months before you passed away at the age of 95.
it's just amazing all of the accomplishments that we have been able to accomplish
thanks to you and the establishment of the house here institute and foundation 75 years ago
it's an amazing story since then we have educated 40 000 physicians from around the world and around
our country they're always welcome with open arms we invite them to go to the operating room with us
we put on conferences for them and we ask them to come to the office and watch the way we handle
some of our patients so howard house's vision for the institute is education and research and as he
has always said it doesn't do any good to research it if you don't share it and teach others and so
that is what the institute's mission was and continues to be for the future we have a great
fellowship program where we're training four physicians who have completed their residency
spending two years with us to learn the advanced techniques which have been developed at the house
ear foundation and institute for example taking out acoustic aromas safely cochlear implants
hundreds of thousands of patients now around the world have had their hearing restored from being
deaf not hearing with hearing aids and to be able to use an implant that was all developed here and
we're continuing this research we've also had the opportunity to work with hearing aids to
develop better hearing aids looking at single-sided deafness just there's so many
things and there are some mysteries and that's i think what the future is that we we have to
find what we can do to solve some of the problems that we have not been able to solve
great challenges are things like tinnitus ringing meniere's disease with patients having severe
vertigo what can we do to cure that how can we improve patients with sensory neural hearing loss
are we going to be able to regenerate hair cells if we could accomplish in the future
what we've accomplished in the past that would be a dream come true
you