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Professor William Gibson AM

Tyree Professor of Otolaryngology
Surgery, Central Clinical School

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Curriculum vitae

Biographical details

William P R Gibson was born shortly after D Day in Totnes, Devon as the first of identical twins. He studied medicine at The Middlesex Hospital and qualified in 1967. He held various appointments in teaching hospitals in London before becoming a consultant surgeon at The National Hospitals for Nervous Disease and The Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital. [More...]

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Current national competitive grants*

2011

Sound and Vibration-Evoked Vestibular Potentials in the Differential Diagnosis of Common Vestibulopathy
Welgampola M, Halmagyi G, Zagami A, Gibson W, Carey J, Todd M
National Health and Medical Research Council Project Grant ($252,524 over 3 years)

* Grants administered through the University of Sydney

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Keywords

Neurophysiology; Otolaryngology; Ear & hearing diseases

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Publications

2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007

2012

   
  • Birman, C., Elliott, E., Gibson, W. (2012), Pediatric cochlear implants: additional disabilities prevalence, risk factors, and effect on language outcomes. Otology & Neurotology. 33(8), 1347-1352. [Abstract]
  • Taylor, R., Bradshaw, A., Magnussen, J., Gibson, W., Halmagyi, G., Welgampola, M. (2012), Augmented Ocular Vestibular Evoked Myogenic Potentials to Air-Conducted Sound in Large Vestibular Aqueduct Syndrome. Ear and Hearing. 33(6), 768-771. [Abstract]
  • Grieve, S., Obholzer, R., Malitz, N., Gibson, W., Parker, G. (2012), Imaging of endolymphatic hydrops in Meniere's disease at 1.5T using phase-sensitive inversion recovery: (1) Demonstration of feasibility and (2) overcoming the limitations of variable gadolinium absorption. European Journal of Radiology. 81(2), 331-338. [Abstract]
  • Taylor, R., Zagami, A., Gibson, W., Black, D., Watson, S., Halmagyi, M., Welgampola, M. (2012), Vestibular evoked myogenic potentials to sound and vibration: characteristics in vestibular migraine that enable separation from Meniere's disease. Cephalalgia. 32(3), 213-225. [Abstract]

2011

   
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  • Brown, D., Gibson, W. (2011), On the differential diagnosis of Meniere's disease using low-frequency acoustic biasing of the 2f1-f2 DPOAE. Hearing research. 282(1-2), 119-27. [Abstract]
  • Taylor, R., Wijewardene, A., Gibson, W., Black, D., Halmagyi, G., Welgampola, M. (2011), The vestibular evoked-potential profile of Ménière's disease. Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology. 122(6), 1256-63. [Abstract]
  • Withers, S., Gibson, W., Greenberg, S., Bray, M. (2011), Comparison of outcomes in a case of bilateral cochlear implantation using devices manufactured by two different implant companies (Cochlear Corporation and Med-El). Cochlear implants international. 12(2), 124-6. [Abstract]
  • Obholzer, R., Gibson, W. (2011), Cochlear function following implantation with a full electrode array. Cochlear implants international. 12(1), 44-7. [Abstract]

2010

   
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  • Gibson, W. (2010), Hypothetical Mechanism for Vertigo in Meniere's Disease. Otolaryngologic Clinics of North America. 43(5), 1019-1027. [Abstract]
  • Iseli, C., Gibson, W. (2010), A comparison of three methods of using transtympanic electrocochleography for the diagnosis of Meniere's disease: click summating potential measurements, tone burst summating potential amplitude measurements, and biasing of the summating potential using a low frequency tone. Acta Oto-Laryngologica. 130(1), 95-101. [Abstract]

2009

   
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  • McNeill, C., Cohen, M., Gibson, W. (2009), Changes in audiometric thresholds before, during and after attacks of vertigo associated with Meniere's syndrome. Acta oto-laryngologica. 129(12), 1404-1407. [Abstract]
  • Freeman, S., Bray, M., Amos, C., Gibson, W. (2009), The association of codeine, macrocytosis and bilateral sudden or rapidly progressive profound sensorineural deafness. Acta oto-laryngologica. 129(0), 1061-6. [Abstract]
  • Nakashima, T., Naganawa, S., Pyykko, I., Gibson, W., Sone, M., Nakata, S., Teranishi, M. (2009), Grading of endolymphatic hydrops using magnetic resonance imaging. Acta oto-laryngologica. Supplementum. 126(Suppl 560), 5-8. [Abstract]
  • Gibson, W. (2009), A comparison of two methods of using transtympanic electrocochleography for the diagnosis of Meniere's disease: click summating potential/action potential ratio measurements and tone burst summating potential measurements. Acta Oto-Laryngologica. 129(560), 38-42. [Abstract]
  • Gibson, W., Sanli, H., Psarros, C. (2009), The use of intra-operative electrical auditory brainstem responses to predict the speech perception outcome after cochlear implantation. Cochlear implants international. 10(Suppl 1), 53-57. [Abstract]
  • Donnelly, N., Gibson, W. (2009), Objective audiometry. In: Ballantyne's Deafness. (pp.63-74).United States: John Wiley.

2008

   
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  • Douglas, S., Sanli, H., Gibson, W. (2008), Meningitis resulting in hearing loss and labyrinthitis ossificans - does the causative organism matter?. Cochlear implants international. 9(2), 90-6. [Abstract]
  • McMahon, C., Patuzzi, R., Gibson, W., Sanli, H. (2008), Frequency-specific electrocochleography indicates that presynaptic and postsynaptic mechanisms of auditory neuropathy exist. Ear and hearing. 29(3), 314-325. [Abstract]
  • Freeman, S., Iseli, C., Kerr, M., Kong, J., Gibson, W. (2008), Phenol application for tympanic membrane anaesthesia. Clinical otolaryngology. , 166-167. [Abstract]
  • Walton, J., Gibson, W., Sanli, H., Prelog, K. (2008), Predicting cochlear implant outcomes in children with auditory neuropathy. Otology & Neurotology. 29(3), 302-309. [Abstract]
  • Gibson, W., Graham, J. (2008), Editorial: 'auditory neuropathy' and cochlear implantation - myths and facts. Cochlear implants international. 9(1), 1-7. [Abstract]

2007

   
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  • Gibson, W., Sanli, H. (2007), Auditory neuropathy: an update. Ear and hearing. 28(2 Suppl), 102S-106S. [Abstract]