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Charleston doctor finds MUSC a great place to practice

by Heather Woolwine
Public Relations
You can take a man out of the Lowcountry. He can achieve great experience and clinical expertise at Duke University. 

But you can’t take the Lowcountry, or MUSC for that matter, out of the man.

Dr. Jonathan Halford

Jonathan Halford, M.D., new assistant professor in Neurology at MUSC and a Charleston native, traveled to Duke University to receive a bachelor’s degree before completing his medical studies at MUSC in 1996.

During his final year of medical school, Halford served as research assistant to Mark George, M.D., Psychiatry, and participated in the development of current advanced neuro-imaging capabilities. He also served as an instructor in gross anatomy and as a teaching assistant in medical neuroscience.

Neurology always seemed natural for Halford. “My dad was an electrical engineer, and I was always really interested in electrical wiring and electrical pathways,” he said. “Neurology was a great fit.”

After an internal medicine internship at the Medical College of Virginia and a combined residency program of neurology and psychiatry at Duke, Halford discovered what a great place MUSC is to practice medicine.

With his family here and the pull of a prestigious academic medical center, Halford and his wife, Heather, made the move to Charleston to become one of four new doctors hired by the Department of Neurology.

Halford completed a one-year fellowship in clinical epilepsy at Duke and plans to focus his clinical and practice efforts on epilepsy and EEG. He will also be board-eligible in clinical neurophysiology and sleep medicine and is currently board-certified in neurology and psychiatry. 

As if this were not enough for his plate, Halford recently became a father to son Benjamin a few weeks ago. 

Working primarily in epilepsy and EEG, Halford collaborates closely with neurologists Paul Pritchard, M.D., and Robert Turner, M.D., and faculty in the Department of Neurological Surgery involved with the epilepsy program at MUSC.
 

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