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 is now closed. Please contact the brainSTIM Center with any questions.
Please note that this workshop is designed for researchers and registration is required. To get the full benefit of the workshop, you should plan on attending all 3 days. Location is Goddard Laboratories, Room 200.
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 scheduled activities.
Note: there have been some changes to Day 1 schedule.
Day 1
09:00 AM - 10:00 AM - Principles of TMS, Roy Hamilton, MD, MS
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM - Hands-on: Motor Threshold
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM - Grab Lunch
11:45 AM - 12:45 PM - Lunchtime Lecture - Safety Concerns, Sudha Kessler, MD
12:45 PM - 1:00 PM - Short Break
1:00 PM - 3:45 PM - Hands-on: Motor Threshold
3:45 PM - 5:00 PM - Group Exercise/Proposal Discussion
Day 2
09:00 AM - 10:00 AM - Cognitive Neuroscience Applications of TMS, Nicholas Balderston, PhD
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM - Hands-on: Motor Threshold
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: TMS Proficiency Testing
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM - Competition: Proposal Blitz
Day 3
09:00 AM - 10:00 AM - Clinical Applications of TMS, Yvette Sheline, MD
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 - Interleaved TMS/fMRI, Desmond Oathes, PhD
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM - Hands-on: Interleaved TMS/fMRI
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM - Social - appetizers and drinks