Lessons from the Birthplace of TMS: TMS in the UK

You’re invited to join the Clinical TMS Society for this installment of our Grand Round Webinar Series: Lessons from the Birthplace of TMS: TMS in the UK

Learning Objectives:

1. History of development of the first TMS device
2. Understanding of how mental health services are provisioned in the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK
3. Understanding of how TMS is provisioned in the UK and differences between the NHS and the private sector
4. Understanding of the timeline of the development of TMS from early experiments to the realization of a practical clinical tool.

Date of Release: Friday, February 4, 2022

Date of Expiration: February 3, 2024

Format: On-Demand

Cost: Members: $25 | Non-members $50 | Student Members FREE

SPEAKERS:

Professor Anthony T Barker PhD, FIET, FIPEM

Dr. Barker recently retired from the U.K. National Health Service in 2015 after 38 years in the Department of Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering of Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.  An engineer by training, Tony’s PhD was on the study of the distribution of peripheral nerve conduction velocities in man. During this period he started to investigate nerve stimulation using magnetically induced currents. He continued this work after his PhD and led the group which invented the technique of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), now widely used throughout the world for basic research, diagnosis and therapy.

Tony has an active interest in the public understanding of science and has given many named and public lectures including the Faraday lecture series, the Silvanus P Thomson series and a Royal Institution Discourse. He is an honorary Professor Associate of the University of Sheffield, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and of the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine. He received the inaugural International Brain Stimulation Award in 2017 for the development of TMS.

Mohamed Abdelghani MBBCh, MSc, FRCPsych

Dr. Abdelghani is one of the pioneers of introducing TMS in UK clinical practice. In 2016 he founded the first clinical TMS in the NHS in London and South England at Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust and he continues to lead this service until the present time. He has been formally trained in TMS at two of the top TMS centres in the world; Harvard University in USA and Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) at the hands of Prof Mark George who was the first psychiatrist to use TMS to treat depression in the early 90s.

In May 2018 he was awarded the Clinical TMS Society President’s award for his dedication, collaboration, efforts and leadership to advance the ideals of the Society. At the present time Dr Abdelghani is the chair of the Outreach Committee in the society in addition to being a member of the Educational Committee. He gives lectures and hands-on-training both nationally and internationally on the topic of TMS and neuromodulation. He is a faculty member of the PULSES TMS training course that is delivered by the Clinical TMS Society in different countries.

Leon Rozewicz MD, MBBS, FRCPsych, MRCGP, MRCPsych

Dr Rozewicz teaches medical students from University College London and has specialist expertise in using biological approaches to treat psychiatric disorders. He uses genetic testing to find the most suitable medications for each individual. Dr Rozewicz also uses repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) to treat depression.

Dr Rozewicz has been a consultant psychiatrist since 1995, and has worked in the NHS for 21 years. He has been a lecturer and an honorary senior lecturer in psychiatry at St George’s Hospital Medical School in London. Prior to training in psychiatry Dr Rozewicz completed training in general practice.