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. While an undergraduate at Duke, he worked part-time at the National Biomedical Simulation Resource. He worked as a student missionary with the Seventh-Day Adventist Church in the Amazon Region of Brazil in 1990-1991 and then began medical school at the Medical University of South Carolina in 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 (1997-2003) where he completed a combined Neurology-Psychiatry residency training 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 and sleep medicine 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 anti-seizure medications and devices. Second, he works to test devices for recording scalp 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.

Dr. Halford has been working to standardize the transmission and storage of neurophysiology recording data (both clinical and research) since 2014. He is User Co-Chairman of DICOM Working Group 32 (Neurophysiology Data), which is sponsored by the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology. DICOM is an international non-profit standards organization administered by the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA).

Online ORCID Profile:
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1681-6744

Central Nervous System, Clinical Neurophysiology, Epilepsy, Sleep Medicine