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Office
96 Jonathan Lucas St
Charleston, SC 29425Phone+1 843-792-3221Fax+1 843-792-8626
Summary
- Dr. Halford is a native of South Carolina and grew up in Charleston. He graduated Cum Laude from Duke University with a major in Religious Studies in 1990. After time off to work in medical missions in the Amazon area of Brazil, he attended medical school at the Medical University of South Carolina where he graduated in 1996. He was a neuro-anatomy instructor part-time as a medical student and he won the AMSA Special Appreciation Award from for teaching medical students in 1993.
After medical school, he spent one year training in Internal Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University and spent six years training at Duke University Medical Center, where he completed a dual neurology-psychiatry residency training program and a neurophysiology fellowship. He accepted a faculty position in the Department of Neurology at MUSC in 2003.
Dr. Halford cares for epilepsy patients both at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) and at the Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center in Charleston, SC. He is very involved in epilepsy research in two areas. First, he works to run clinical trials of new anti-seizure medications and seizure detection devices. Secondly, he helps develop automated computer detection systems using electroencephalopgrahy (EEG) and electromyography (EMG) signals. Dr. Halford is the Director of the Translational Research Unit for the Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery at MUSC. He is also the Director of the Associate Consortium Site at the Charleston Veterans Hospital for the VA Epilepsy Centers of Excellence. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the School of Computing at Clemson University.
Dr. Halford sees adults with epilepsy at the MUSC Rutledge Clinical Tower Clinic and at the Epilepsy Subspecialty Clinic and the Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center.
Education & Training
- Duke University HospitalFellowship, Clinical Neurophysiology, 2002 - 2003
- Duke University HospitalResidency, Psychiatry, 2000 - 2002
- Duke University HospitalResidency, Neurology, 1997 - 1999
- Virginia Commonwealth University Health SystemInternship, Internal Medicine, 1996 - 1997
- Medical University of South CarolinaClass of 1996
- Duke UniversityB.A., Religious Studies, Cum Laude, 1986 - 1990
Certifications & Licensure
- SC State Medical License 2003 - 2025
- NC State Medical License 1997 - 2016
- American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Neurology
- American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Psychiatry
- American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Epilepsy
- American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Sleep Medicine
- American Board of Clinical NeurophysiologyAdvanced Electroencephalography and Epilepsy Monitoring
- American Board of Sleep MedicineSleep Medicine
- DEA and SC DHECClass 1 Prescription License
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- Fellow American Epilepsy Society, 2016
- Fellow American Clinical Neurophysiology Society, 2014
- Golden Apple Special Appreciation Award Medical University of South Carolina, 1996
Clinical Trials
- Seizure Detection and Warning System for Epilepsy Patients Start of enrollment: 2013 Jul 01
- An Open Label Extension Study of Cannabidiol (GWP42003-P) in Children and Adults With Dravet or Lennox-Gastaut Syndromes Start of enrollment: 2015 Jun 11
- Safety and Pharmacokinetic Study of YKP3089 as Adjunctive Therapy in Subjects With Partial Onset Seizures Start of enrollment: 2016 Aug 03
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Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- 69 citationsDetection of generalized tonic-clonic seizures using surface electromyographic monitoringJonathan J. Halford, Michael R. Sperling, Dileep Nair, Dennis J. Dlugos, William O. Tatum
Epilepsia. 2017-11-01 - 17 citationsInterictal Epileptiform Discharge Detection in EEG in Different Practice Settings.Jonathan J. Halford, M. Brandon Westover, Suzette M. LaRoche, Micheal P. Macken, Ekrem Kutluay
Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology. 2018-09-01 - 72 citationsComputerized epileptiform transient detection in the scalp electroencephalogram: obstacles to progress and the example of computerized ECG interpretation.Jonathan J. Halford
Clinical Neurophysiology. 2009-11-01
Journal Articles
- Standardized Database Development for EEG Epileptiform Transient Detection: EEGnet Scoring System and Machine Learning AnalysisHalford JJ, Schalkoff RJ, Zhou J, Benbadis SR, Tatum WO, Turner RP, Sinha S, Fountain NB, Arain A, Pritchard PB, Kutluay E, Martz G, Edwards JC, Waters C, Dean BC, Journal of Neurosciences Methods, 1/1/2013
- Hippocampal atrophy in temporal lobe epilepsy: the generator and receiverBonilha L, Halford JJ, Morgan PS, Edwards JC, Acta Neurologica Scandanavia, 2/1/2012
- Quantitative EEG Analysis for Automated Detection of Nonconvulsive Seizures in Intensive Care UnitsSackellares JC, Shiau DS, Halford JJ, LaRoche SM, Kelly KM, Epilepsy & Behavior, 1/1/2011
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Press Mentions
- Palmetto Pot War: A Look at the Science Behind Medical Marijuana and Obstacles Researchers FaceFebruary 26th, 2021
- Brain Cholesterol: The New Landscape of Neurological Disease ManagementNovember 2nd, 2023
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