Dr. Jack Van Doren Hough, a world-renowned ear surgeon, is known as one of the pioneers of microscopic ear surgery. He has perfected several surgical techniques and instruments for hearing restoration and middle ear reconstruction that are used widely throughout the world. 

He has also written more than one-hundred (100) scientific articles and several textbook contributions to the medical literature. For these activities, he has received numerous honors and awards. He was the recipient of the Harris P. Mosher Award by his senior society, The Triological Society. In 1986, he was given the highest scientific award bestowed by the prestigious American Otological Society, The Award of Merit. He has also received The Award of Merit from the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. These are the highest scientific distinctions his profession can offer.

For the last three decades, Dr. Hough has traveled extensively in this country and throughout the world lecturing to large numbers of societies, academies and university medical centers in his specialty. Four times, he has been guest of honor and featured guest speaker of the Royal Society of Medicine in London. He is professor of otolaryngology at the University of Oklahoma. He has been a member of the board of directors and is past president of almost all of the leading societies and academies having to do with otology.

Dr. Hough is founder and chairman of the board of the Hough Ear Institute, a research facility named in his honor by INTEGRIS Health in Oklahoma City. During the past 15 years he and his research team have joined others in the development of electromagnetic hearing devices. The cochlear implant for totally deaf patients has been greatly improved by his own team's introduction of means for attaching the prosthesis, using rare earth magnets. His discovery of the electromagnetic bone conduction device and his continued work on an implantable ossicular electromagnetic prosthesis hold great potential for helping, throughout the world, a large number of people who are hearing impaired.