You’re invited to join the Clinical TMS Society for the next installment of our Grand Rounds Webinar Series: Peers & Magnets: A TMS Roundtable Discussion. Panelists: Richard A. Bermudes, MD ; Michelle R.M. Cochran, MD, FAPA & David Feifel, MD will answer your questions and discuss other topics related to TMS including:
- Practice development & compliance Issues with TMS
- Ways to optimize clinical outcomes for patients with TRD (Treatment resistant depression)
- How to choose the right TMS system?
- TMS training and supervision of staff
- TMS education
- Physician recruiting
- Marketing your TMS Practice
Submit Your Questions:
The Peers & Magents Roundtable series is designed to allow attendees to submit questions prior to the webinar. If you have a question or topic that you would like the panelists to cover, CLICK HERE or email info@clinicaltmssociety.org. Please submit your question by Thursday, March 30th.
Date: Tuesday, April 4, 2017
Time: 8:00pm (EST) / 5:00pm (PST)
Format: Webinar using Zoom Video Communications
Cost: Members: $25 | Non-members: $50
Panelist: Richard A. Bermudes
Dr. Bermudes is Board Certified in Adult Psychiatry and Family Medicine, with 20 years’ experience caring for patients. He founded TMS Health Solutions in 2007, serves as the practice’s Medical Director, and is an expert on TMS practice organization and policy development.
Originally from Sonoma County, Dr. Bermudes earned his medical degree from the University of California, San Diego in 1997. He served as Chief Resident for the Family Medicine/Psychiatry Combined Program at the University of Cincinnati, then completed a fellowship in cognitive therapy and cognitive therapy supervision at the Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy and Research in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Dr. Bermudes is a founding member of the Clinical TMS Society. He chaired the group first annual meeting in 2013 and was elected as its president in 2015. When he’s not at the office, Dr. Bermudes recharges by trail running and mountain biking, and is an ardent devotee of pourover coffee.
Panelist: Michelle R.M. Cochran, MD, FAPA
Michelle R. M. Cochran MD, FAPA currently works in a private practice in Nashville. She has experience treating a variety of psychiatric conditions, using therapy, counseling, medicines, neuro-modulation, and holistic options.
Dr. Cochran completed her medical training at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. She received postgraduate medical education at Vanderbilt University Medical Center where she completed a residency in Psychiatry.
A Diplomat of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Dr. Cochran is also a fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. Since 2011, Dr. Cochran has offered Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation to her patients as an option for the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder. Dr. Cochran and her staff have trained extensively in the use of repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) including training at Harvard, Duke and other specific advanced device trainings.
Dr Cochran speaks nationally on the use of rTMS in a clinical setting and is a active member of The Clinical TMS Society. Dr. Cochran has served on the annual committee for four years and was a co-chair of the annual meeting in Toronto, Canada. Presently she is on the executive board for the society as the current Vice President, and is the chair and coordinator for the Inagural Pulses conference to be held the day prior to this year's Clinical TMS Annual meeting.
Panelist: David Feifel MD
Dr. David Feifel is a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego where he is the founding Director of UCSD’s TMS program and the UCSD Center for Advanced Treatment of Mood and Anxiety Disorders. He is a board member of the Clinical TMS Society and also co-chairs its clinical standards committee.