Max Stanley Chartrand PhD

Dr. Max Stanley Chartrand serves on the advisory committees to the American Tinnitus Association, the Better Hearing Institute, Audiology Online, and is a professional member of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, on the Federal & State Advocacy Committee of the International Hearing Society, and the Advisory Committee for the Arizona Division of Hearing Aid Dispenser Licensing. He is also a professor of Behavioral Medicine and has served on numerous doctoral research committees relative to human health and the hearing sciences. In 1994, he was recipient of the Joel S. Wernick Excellence in Education Award, and has published and lectured extensively throughout the world over the past four decades. At age 3 he became severely hearing impaired and later profoundly deaf. He utilized hearing aid and assistive technology for many years until cochlear implant technology and assistive devices were advanced enough to accommodate his profound deafness. He believes that there has never been a time that communicative options and amplification technologies have been more accessible, more attractive, and more affordable than they are today. His findings are that the market has grown exponentially faster than the industry’s ability to accommodate it. Now, he says, is the most exciting and empowering time to be in the hearing health the good that can be done is immeasurable and so vital to the well-being of so many hearing loss sufferers and their families.