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


Hurry! Registration is closing Friday, August 29, 2025.
Note: An email was sent on Tues, Aug 26 to everyone that registered. If you did NOT receive that email from the brainSTIM Center, please email us to confirm your registration.

 

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.

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 - 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