BrainSTIM Intensive 3-Day TMS Workshop

 

The Penn brainSTIM Center will hold its third annual brainSTIM Intensive 3-Day TMS Workshop from Wednesday, September 17th to Friday, September 19th, 2025. The workshop covers hands-on and didactic lectures around the following topics:

  • Principles and mechanisms of TMS
  • Safety 
  • Clinical and research advances in the field
  • TMS targeting and experimental design
  • TMS/fMRI
  • TMS/EEG

Registration

Please click here to see more images from our workshop last fall!

The full program is listed below. Click on the day's title to expand and see the activities that took place!

Day 1

09:00 AM - 10:00 AM - Principles of TMS, Roy Hamilton, MD, MS

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM - Hands-on: Motor Threshold, 

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM - Lunch provided

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM - Safety Concerns, Sudha Kessler, MD

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM - Hands-on: Motor Threshold

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM - Discussion: Getting started

Day 2

09:00 AM - 10:00 AM - Clinical Applications of TMS, Yvette Sheline, MD

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM - Hands-on: Motor Threshold

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM - Lunch provided

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM - Cognitive Neuroscience Applications of TMS, Nicholas Balderston, PhD

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM - Hands-on: TMS proficiency testing

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM - Competition: Proposal blitz

 

Day 3

09:00 AM - 10:00 AM - Interleaved TMS/fMRI, Desmond Oathes, PhD

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM - Hands-on: Simultaneous TMS/EEG, ANT Neuro demonstration

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM - Lunch provided

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM - Simultaneous TMS/EEG, John Medaglia, PhD

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM - Hands-on: Interleaved TMS/fMRI

4:30 PM - 6:30 PM - Social - appetizers and drinks