Professional Staff

Dr. Gary Harris has been an audiologist since 1976 and started The HEARING Place in 1988. His work involves four things: Hearing evaluation, Hearing aids, Vestibular evaluation, and Consulting to noisy industries.

He is Board Certified in Audiology from the American Board of Audiology and is Past President of the West Virginia Speech-Language-Hearing Association. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Audiology.

He was appointed member of the West Virginia Board of Hearing Aid Directors in 1989. His articles include: "Hearing Conservation Program Audiometry: Be Aware of Collapsing Canals." JOHL, vol 2, #4, 1999."Hearing Instrument Repairs and Patient Satisfaction." Gary Harris et al. THE HEARING REVIEW, April, 1999."A Screening Test for Pseudohypacusis." Charles Woodford, Gary Harris, et al. THE HEARING REVIEW, November, 1997.

Dr. Bethany Porter graduated from West Virginia University in 2006 with her Doctorate of Audiology. As a graduate student at WVU she worked at a variety of clinical settings and did scholarly work on "slim-tube open-ear hearing aid fittings". She is a member of the American Academy of Audiology and of the West Virginia Speech Language Hearing Association.