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EPISODE · Jan 5, 2026 · 50 MIN

Holiday listening: the secret world of the human ear

from Conversations · host Australian Broadcasting Corporation

For Professor Kelvin Kong, the ear is our most beautiful organ. Kelvin is a proud Worimi man and an ENT surgeon at the forefront of medical innovation.For Professor Kelvin Kong, the ear is our most beautiful organ.It's vital to how many of us understand each other, and how we understand ourselves.The proud Worimi man is the third doctor in his family, and is now an ENT surgeon at the forefront of medical innovation.He performs highly intricate lifesaving procedures, and also more simple medical interventions that are equally as impactful, because by tending to untreated ear disease in children, he can change the entire trajectory of their lives. Further informationOriginally broadcast in September 2022.In 2023, Professor Kong was named NAIDOC Person of the year for his work treating the ear disease Otitis Media amongst children in indigenous communities

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