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Otologist
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Otology.
Julius Lempert (1890–1968)
The early twentieth century saw renewed interest in surgical approaches to conductive hearing loss. Julius Lempert, a New York otologist, developed and popularised the single-stage endaural fenestration procedure in 1938 as a means of bypassing the fixed stapes in otosclerosis. Although the technique has since been superseded, Lempert's work demonstrated that functional hearing surgery was feasible and attracted widespread international attention, training a generation of surgeons who carried the approach across the United States and Europe.