Tō mātou kaupapa | Our Purpose
The Eisdell Moore Centre was established in 2017 with a mission to reduce the impact of hearing and balance disability in New Zealand and the Pacific region through research, community education and the promotion of evidence based clinical services.
We bring together researchers and clinicians at the Universities of Auckland, Otago, Canterbury, Massey University, and the Auckland University of Technology to undertake multidisciplinary research aimed at developing prevention, treatment and interventions for hearing impairment and balance disorders.
We work with community groups such as The National Foundation For Deaf and Hard of Hearing and the New Zealand Dizziness, Balance and Vertigo Society to support community education on these disorders to aid prevention and to promote treatment options.
Ko te whakakitenga | Our Vision
— Sir Patrick Eisdell Moore
“It was a sobering thought that our work had the power to improve people’s lives by facilitating promotion at work, by restoring companionship in marriage, and simply by making people happier.”
Sir Patrick Eisdell Moore Kt, OBE, was an eminent Ear, Nose and Throat Surgeon and founder of the Deafness Research Foundation in New Zealand. A true visionary, humanist, and leader, he had a profound impact on the evolution of the ENT surgical specialty and the treatment of ear disease and hearing loss in children and adults in New Zealand. Sir Patrick had a very strong interest in early detection and treatment of middle ear disease in Māori children, especially in rural New Zealand, running annual clinics for local children with ear disease on the East Cape and later introducing mobile ear clinics to treat ear disease in children.
He also led the introduction of cochlear implants to New Zealand and helped establish the New Zealand cochlear implant programme and the Hearing House, which has provided habilitative and educational support for deaf children with implants for the last 20 years. His vision, that clinical advances must be underpinned by excellence in basic and clinical sciences, led to the formation of the Deafness Research Foundation, which has facilitated and funded deafness research in New Zealand for five decades. Naming the Centre after Sir Patrick acknowledges the roots of ear and hearing research in New Zealand and the eminent position he held as a pioneering New Zealander.