2018 Annual Meeting

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. With his background as a professor and researcher, he leads the practice in its mission to educate the public and...

Sherri Capone is a Certified Clinical Medical Assistant & the TMS Coordinator at Long Island neuroCare Therapy.

Dr Cochran currently works as the medical director of the Nashville Center for Hope & Healing and the NeuroScience and TMS treatment centers; in addition she maintains a role as a private practice psychiatrist. The clinics have grown to two sites with two physicians, multiple nurse practitioners, therapists, and many support staff and technicians. Dr Cochran has experience treating a...

Ms. Vergara has been doing TMS for 7 years and has treated hundreds of patients.  She is currently the Senior TMS Technician at Southern California TMS Center and is in charge of all technician training and supervision at their 6 locations. She has been a Psychiatric Nurse for the last 10 years, and previously did ECT at Cedars-Sinai hospital.  She is currently furthering her education to...

Mr. Esuf completed his undergraduate degree at UC Davis, majoring in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.  Prior to working at TMS Health Solutions, he ran day-to-day operations at a non-profit student-run clinic, while serving as a Finance Coordinator and board member. Mr. Esuf began working at TMS Health Solutions as a TMS technician soon after graduation.  He worked as a TMS technician for...

Dr. Frohlich received a degree in electrical engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, an International Diploma in electrical engineering at the Imperial College in London, and his PhD in computational neurobiology at UC San Diego. He did a postdoctoral fellowship at Yale University studying cortical network activity. Flavio’s goal is to revolutionize how we treat...

Dr. Harkavy-Friedman leads the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s research grant program to advance the field of suicide prevention. With 30 years of experience as a clinician and a researcher, she is passionate about translating research into practice, publishing over 100 articles. She assists with AFSP’s development of programs and messages that reflect best practices and current...

Tabitha Iseger obtained her Bachelors degree in Biology at Leiden University in 2011. Following, she obtained a Masters degree in Neuroscience in 2013 at VU University Amsterdam. During her Masters degree, she obtained work experience at King’s College London, working in the field of MRI. After her Masters, she started working at the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam, in the field of MRI,...

Dr. Kabar is a Peruvian-American physician who trained as a psychiatrist at the University of Maryland and the San Mateo County Residency Program in Palo Alto, California where he was chief resident. He is Board-Certified and worked in the San Francisco Bay Area for almost 20 years in private practice, at UC Berkeley and at other psychiatric facilities where he served as a medical director,...

Dr. Kuluva is a Board Certified psychiatrist and neurologist with a strong academic and research background, as well as experience with both Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. He treats patients with clinical depression and neurologic disorders, and individuals with neurologic disorders who experience psychiatric symptoms such as geriatric patients with cognitive...

Dr. Lyford-Pike is the Director of the Institute of Psychiatry and Psychology of Montevideo (IPM) and has been a TMS provider and researcher since 1999. He is also the former President of the Biological Psychiatry Society of Uruguay (SPBU), currently the honorary member of SPBU.  In 1978 he received his medical degree from the Universidad de la República (UDELAR), Montevideo Uruguay and...

Dr. McDonnell is a Neurological Physiotherapist and Neuroscientist. Her research investigates mechanisms to promote neuroplasticity following brain damage, and the use of non-invasive brain stimulation to further our understanding of functionally beneficial changes in the brain.  She has a particular interest in the changes that occur in the brain in the first few weeks post-stroke, and...

Dr. Okasha is the Medical Director of Comprehensive Psychiatric Care, a private practice located in Norwich Connecticut where he is also the Primary Investigator (P.I.) and has conducted over 70 clinical trials.  He is an Associate Clinical Professor at the Department of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine. 

Dr. Philip received his BSc from McGill University, and his MD from Albany Medical College where he graduated AOA and with a Distinction in the Study of Biomedical Ethics. He completed psychiatry residency training at the Alpert Medical of Brown University, followed by an NIH-sponsored T32 Fellowship, and then a Neuromodulation Fellowship at Butler Hospital.

Dr. Philip is an Associate...

Dr. Pridmore is a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Tasmania, Australia. He brought the first TMS device to the southern hemisphere (Royal Hobart Hospital) and reported the normalization of the DST using TMS in 1999, and the first blind comparison of TMS and ECT in 2000 (widely ignored). Currently, attached to ‘TMS Tasmania’, a service of Saint Helen’s Private Hospital (Hobart).

Dr. Schlickman received his undergraduate degree cum laude in biochemistry from Brandeis University.  His initial interest in pediatrics transformed into psychiatry during medical school at the University of Massachusetts.  He was chief resident of psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center.  His private group practice, APOGEE Integrated Mental Health Services, Inc. was...

Ms. Sisko is the clinical research coordinator for Advanced Mental Health Care in Palm Beach County, FL.  She began working with Dr. Tendler as a research assistant and TMS technician after graduating with bachelor’s in biology from Rollins College. Ms. Sisko has extensive experience administering both rTMS (Magstim & Neurostar) and dTMS (H1, H4, H7, and H9 coils) as well as training...

Ms.Valencia, LCSW holds a B.S. in Psychology and Criminology from Florida State University and went on to receive her Master's of Science in Social Work from the University of Tennessee College Of Social Work in 2013. Since 2013 she has acted as a Therapist and TMS Coordinator for the Nashville Center for Hope & Healing (NCHH). 

With NCHH Ms.Valencia sees a variety of clients for...

Dr. Zohar is the Director of Psychiatry A and Director of the Anxiety and Obsessive Compulsive Clinic of this institute. He graduated from Tel Aviv University Sackler School of Medicine in 1973, trained in psychiatry at the University of Washington, Seattle and at the Jerusalem Mental Health Center, Israel, where he was the director of the Resistant Depression Unit. In 1984, Prof. Zohar joined...