2025 News & Events
Louis Duhring Outstanding Clinical Specialist Award
Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
The Duhring Award recognizes a clinical specialist physician who blends biomedical science, recent advances in clinical research, and insight to provide cutting-edge services to patients and colleagues. The awardee is able to apply clinical knowledge innovatively and creatively and maintains a commitment to patients that goes beyond the norm and exemplifies Penn Medicine’s goal for clinical care and professionalism.
Dr. Mario Cristancho is a distinguished leader in interventional psychiatry whose expertise in complex psychopharmacology and advanced neuromodulation techniques have transformed care for patients with treatment-resistant mood disorders. As founding director of Penn’s Interventional Psychiatry Program and Chief of Interventional Psychiatry, he has built a collaborative model that integrates innovative therapies across the health system while inspiring trainees and colleagues through mentorship and scholarly engagement. His clinical acumen, vision, and unwavering commitment to patient-centered care have advanced both local and international practice in the treatment of refractory mood disorders.
Neurology Grand Rounds
Please join us Wednesday, March 26th at noon for Neurology IN-PERSON Grand Rounds.
"Using neuromodulation to map brain circuits for neurological disease”
Michael Fox, MD, PhD, Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School
Wednesday, March 26th at Noon
In partnership with the brainSTIM Center:
PTNC Neuromodulation Symposium, March 20-21, 2025
https://www.med.upenn.edu/ptnc/ptnc-neuromodulation-symposium.html
CNDS and brainSTIM Neuromodulation and Neuroimaging Relevant to Affective Disorders Speaker Series 2025
Speaker: Dr. Hengyi Cao MB, Phd
Title: Cerebellar connectivity as a key biomarker for psychosis prediction and intervention
Date: Wednesday, October 22nd, 2025
Speaker: Dr. Ru(by) Kong, PhD
Title: Individual-Specific Brain Parcellations For Brain Stimulation
Date: Wednesday, October 15th, 2025
Speaker: Dr. Lindsay Oliver, PhD
Title: Targeting Behavioral and Neural Correlates of Social Cognitive Impairments in Schizophrenia Using Personalized Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
Date: Wednesday, October 8th, 2025
Speaker: Dr. Miriam Klein-Flügge PhD, MSc
Title: Computation, Neuromodulation & Mental Health Relationships In Affective Decision-making
Date: Wednesday, October 1st, 2025
Speaker: Dr. Miriam Klein-Flügge PhD, MSc
Title: Computation, Neuromodulation & Mental Health Relationships In Affective Decision-making
Date: Wednesday, October 1st at 1:30pm
Speaker: Dr. Odile A. van den Heuvel, MD PhD
Title: rTMS In OCD: From Disease Model to Personalized Targeting
Date: Wednesday, September 24th at 1:30pm
Speaker: Dr. Jade Jackson , PhD
Title: A causal role of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in attentional selection and rule-guided behaviour
Date: Wednesday, September 3rd at 1:30pm
Speaker: Dr. Francesco Versace , PhD
Title: From Brain Waves to Behavior: Identifying Neuromarkers for Tailored Smoking and Obesity Treatments
Date: Wednesday, August 27th at 1:30pm
Speaker: Dr. Reza Tadayon-Nejad, MD, PhD
Title: Brain Stimulation Of The Ventrolateral Prefrontal Cortex For Modulating Impulsive & Compulsive Decision-Making
Date: Wednesday, August 13th at 1:30pm
Speaker: Dr. Kristin Sellers, Phd
Title: Sustained benefit of closed-loop deep brain stimulation for major depressive disorder
Date: Wednesday, July 30th at 1:30pm
Speaker: Christopher T. Sege, Medical University of South Carolina
Title: Targeting Fight/ Flight/ Freeze Motivation in the Anxiety Spectrum: A Model for the Use of Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation as a Precision Medicine Behavior Modulation Tool
Date: Wednesday, July 23rd at 1:30pm
Speaker: Chris Pople, University of Toronto
Title: Interleaved iTBS-fMRI as a causal, prognostic biomarker in treatment-resistant depression
Date: Saturday, July 9th at 1:30pm
Speaker: Jonathan Downar , MD PhD
Title: Single-Day TMS Regimens - Mechanisms, Applications, and Implications
Date: Wednesday, June 18th at 1:30pm
Speaker: Joseph J. Taylor MD, PhD
Title: Accelerated TMS for Depression: Does Imaging-Based Targeting Matter?
Date: Wednesday, June 4th at 1:30pm
Speaker: Sara Tremblay, PhD
Title: Understanding Response Variability in TBS for TRD: The Interplay of Neurophysiology, Biological Sex and Lifestyle Factors
Date: Wednesday, May 28th at 1:30pm
Speaker: Nils Kroemer, PhD
Title: Pulse of purpose: the vagus nerve and motivational drive
Date: Wednesday, May 21st at 1:30pm
Speaker: Ghazaleh Soleimani, MSc, PhD
Title: Individualizing Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation for Substance Use Disorders: Opportunities and Challenges
Date: Wednesday, May 7th, 2025 1:30pm
Speaker: Vaughn Steele, PhD
Title: Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation, a safe and effective intervention for cocaine and opioid use disorder
Date: Wednesday, April 30th, 2025 1:30pm
Speaker: Cecilia A. Hinojosa, PhD
Title: Using a multi-method approach to study sex differences in co-occurring posttraumatic stress disorder and alcohol use disorder
Date: Wednesday, April 16th, 2025 1:30pm
Speaker: Nicole Provenza, PhD
Title: Neuromodulation, neural variability, and mental health
Date: Wednesday, March 12th, 2025 1:30pm
Speakers: Ines Violante, PhD
Title: Non-invasive temporal interference electrical stimulation to shape memory rhythms
Date: Wednesday, March 5th, 2025 1:30pm
Speaker: Kymberly Young, PhD
Title: Real-Time fMRI Amygdala Neurofeedback for Major Depressive Disorder: Progress and Challenges
Date: Wednesday, February 12th, 2025 1:30pm
Speaker: Vikaas Sohal, MD, PhD
Title: Brain oscillations as key mediators of cognition and emotion, and potential targets in psychiatric conditions
Date: Wednesday, February 5th, 2025 1:30pm
Speaker: Brian Kavanaugh, PsyD, ABPP
Title: Modulating the oscillatory dynamics underlying adolescent working memory with iTBS
Date: Wednesday, January 29th, 2025 1:30pm
Speakers: Zelma Kiss, MD, PhD, FRCSC and Darren Clark, PhD
Title: Unraveling the role of the subgenual cingulate in depression and emotion using DBS
Date: Wednesday, January 15th, 2025 1:30pm
Speaker: Harold A. Sackeim, PhD
Title: The Future of Neuromodulation in Psychiatry: The Revolution is Here
Date: Wednesday, January 8th, 2025, 1:30pm