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claude-henri chouard in 2009 paris légion d'honneur french surgery , otology university of paris 03 july 1931 work on cochlear implant paris claude-henri chouard
 claude-henri chouard
claude-henri chouard

claude-henri chouard is a french surgeon born on in the 15th arrondissement of paris , this otologist has been a full member of the académie nationale de médecine -lrb- french national academy of medicine -rrb- since 1999 .
he was director of the ap-hp -lrb- paris hospital group -rrb- laboratory of auditory prosthesis and director of the ent research laboratory at paris-saint-antoine university hospital from 1967 to 2001 .
he was also head of the institution 's ent department from 1978 to 1998 .
in 1982 , he was elected a member of the international collegium orl-as .
he achieved worldwide recognition in the late 1970s thanks to the work completed by his paris laboratory 's multidisciplinary team on the multichannel cochlear implant .
this implanted electronic hearing device was developed at saint-antoine and alleviates bilateral total deafness .
when implanted early in young children , it can also help overcome the spoken language problems associated with deafness .
