“…The advent of cochlear implants has dramatically changed the landscape of auditory habilitation and rehabilitation for more than 350,000 children and adults with hearing loss worldwide (Zeng & Canlon, 2015). This achievement was recognized by the 2013 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Research Award (Hampton, 2013;Holmes, 2013;Niparko, 2013;Roland & Tobey, 2013;Williams, 2013), the 2015 National Academy of Engineering Russ Prize (Clark, 2014;Hochmair, Hochmair, Nopp, Waller, & Jolly, 2014;Merzenich, 2015;Wilson, 2014), and the 2018 Shambough Prize for the developers of the multichannel cochlear implant.…”