After receiving his undergraduate training at the University of Oregon and his medical training at Creighton University, Dr. Healton completed postgraduate training in Neurology in the Columbia University residency program at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. He also completed his Masters in Public Health at Columbia University. Dr. Healton came to NRH in 2000 after 32-years of clinical, academic and administrative management experience at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and Harlem Hospital Center. During his tenure in New York, he served as Clinical Professor of Neurology, Senior Associate Dean and Assistant Vice-President at Columbia and Medical Director at Harlem Hospital Center. He also served as Medical Director of the Manhattan Community Voices Collaborative at Columbia. Dr. Healton is the Professor and Chair of the Rehabilitation Medicine Department at the Georgetown University Medical Center. In his many other capacities at NRH, Dr. Healton serves as Medical Director of the Spinal Cord Injury Program and Director of the Christoph Ruesch Neuroscience Research Center.  He has published extensively in the areas of cerebrovasuclar disease and the neurological complication of systemic diseases (cobalamin deficiency, severe hypertension), as well as community-based health services research. He serves on the Board of Directors for MedStar Research Institute and Doctors of the World.