Jonathan halford | va charleston health care | veterans affairs

Dr. Jonathan J. Halford grew up mainly in Charleston, SC USA. He graduated Cum Laude from Duke University with a major in Religious Studies in 1990. He worked as a student missionary in the

Amazon Region of Brazil in 1990-1991. After medical school, Dr. Halford completed an internship in Internal Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University and then spent six years training at

Duke University Medical Center where he completed a Combined Neurology-Psychiatry Residency Training Program and a Clinical Neurophysiology Fellowship. He accepted a faculty position in the

Department of Neurology at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) in 2003 and has been a Staff Neurologist at the Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center since 2004. Dr. Halford cares

for epilepsy patients both at MUSC and at the Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center. He is very involved in epilepsy and neurophysiology research in two areas. First, he works with epilepsy

patients in research clinical trials of new epilepsy medications and devices. Second, he works to develop and test software and devices for recording electroencephalography (EEG) and

automatically detecting clinically-relevant events in EEG and electromyography (EMG) signals. At MUSC, Dr. Halford is a Professor of Neurology, the Director of the Translational Research

Unit for the Departments of Neurology, and the Associate Director for Technical Development for the MUSC Clinical Neurophysiology Laboratory. At the Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center, he is

the Director of an Associate Consortium site of the VA Epilepsy Centers of Excellence and the Director of the Clinical Neurophysiology Laboratory. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor

in the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the School of Computing at Clemson University. Research interests include developing devices for automatically detecting

clinically-relevant events in electroencephalography (EEG) and electromyography (EMG) signals.  Publications (PubMed)