Mark E. Chertoff, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Hearing and Speech - KU Medical Center

Research Interests: Developing clinical measures of cochlear transduction to provide a new categorization system of hearing loss based on the underlying pathophysiology. This may be used for targeting therapeutic agents towards physiologic sites as well as for developing new signal processing algorithms for hearing aids and cochlear implants in the future. A second area of research involves the optimal signal parameters to obtain indices of cochlear transduction in humans. In an animal model, the goals are to determine the influence of the middle ear transfer function on cochlear transduction processes, and to determine the sensitivity and specificity of cochlear transduction indices to distinguish cochlear pathology in ears with permanent hearing loss.