Dr John S ARCHER MBBS, BMedSc, FRACP, PhD
Senior Lecturer Medicine, The University of Melbourne
Neurologist, Austin Health
Melbourne Brain Centre
245 Burgundy Street, Heidelberg, 3084.
Victoria, AUSTRALIA
ph: +61 3 9035-7071, or +61 3 9496-5529 fax: +61 3 9035-7307
email: jarcher@unimelb.edu.au
Dr Archer trained in neurology in Sydney, Oxford and Melbourne, completing a PhD in epilepsy and imaging through The University of Melbourne in 2002. From 2002-7 he ran a solo neurology service at Cairns Base Hospital, whilst helping establish James Cook University medical clinical program at the hospital. In 2007 he was appointed senior lecturer medicine the University of Melbourne, head of EEG laboratory Austin Health, and research fellow Brain Research Institute / Florey Neuroscience Institutes.
Dr Archer is a clinician/researcher closely affiliated with the epilepsy imaging group at the Florey.
Interests include clinical, EEG, structural and functional imaging features of the secondary (symptomatic) generalised epilepsies. A particular area of expertise is combined EEG-fMRI. Past research interests have included tropical and indigenous neurology.
EEG-fMRI, especially in the ‘secondary generalised epilepsy’ phenotype.
Resting state functional connectivity in epilepsy
Structural and functional MR imaging.
Simulataneous EEG and functional MR imaging
Clinical EEG.
Clinical Epileptology and Neurology
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