Dr. Craig Buchman, MD, FACS is Lindburg Professor and Chair, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Washington University in St. Louis. He completed his residency at the University of Pittsburgh and Fellowship at the House Ear Clinic in Los Angeles. He is the Chair of the William House Cochlear Implant Study Group and the Implantable Devices Committee of the AAO-HNS, a Founding Board Member of the American Cochlear Implant Alliance (ACIA) and its current Chairman of the Board, and a member on the Joint Committee on Infant Hearing (JCIH). He has published extensively and has extensive editorial experience in the field. His investigative interests are broad in the field of hearing loss and rehabilitation and his ongoing research centers on the utility of auditory evoked cortical responses in the pediatric population and the use of auditory brainstem implantation in children with cochlear nerve disorders.