About Us
We are a group of psychiatric-mental health nurses engaged in dialogue, education, role-development, nursing and interprofessional research about TMS and other neuromodulation methodologies affecting our patients.
Executive Committee Bios
Dr. Berry S. Anderson, PhD, RN is an Assistant Professor in the College of Nursing and Research Scientist in the Brain Stimulation Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). He received his Bachelor of Science degree in nursing from South Carolina State University and his doctorate in nursing from the Medical University of South Carolina. Dr. Anderson is a member of the American Psychiatric Nursing Association, the executive nursing subcommittee of the International Society of Neurostimulation, and the International Society for Transcranial Stimulation.
Dr. Anderson’s research focuses on the use of brain stimulation technologies to understand brain function and treat psychiatric disorders. He has authored or co-authored over 30 peer-reviewed articles and collaborated on more than 40 clinical research trials concerning transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), vagus nerve stimulation (VNS), deep brain stimulation (DBS), epidural prefrontal cortical stimulation (EpCS), and transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS). Dr. Anderson was a Presidential Scholar at MUSC, a Janssen Scholar, and received the Ruth Chamberlain Award and Sharon Davis Memorial Award.
Dr. Anderson has taken a leading role educating physicians and nurses about TMS. He served on the Steering Committee of the Association for Convulsive Therapy developing the first international Certificate Course and Certifying Exam on TMS. He is a faculty member of the International Society of Neurostimulation providing ongoing annual TMS education to physicians and nurses. He has conducted multiple professional brain stimulation presentations and workshops notably at the International Society of Neurostimulation and the American Psychiatric Nurses Association.
Susan Bernard, PMH-RN BC has been a psychiatric nurse for over 8 years. Susan works on an in patient psychiatric unit at a local hospital and as a TMS nurse coordinator at Center for Life Management in Hampstead, NH. Susan also works as a consultant for Neuronetics, by helping provide education to new providers of TMS .
Susan was the first manager of the TMS Clinic at Concord Hospital in Concord, NH, one of the first NeuroStar TMS clinics that opened after FDA approval of the NeuroStar. Susan had an article published in the Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses’ Association’s special focus issue on TMS. Susan has spoken about TMS at various medical facilities in the NH area, and also at a Neuronetics National Pioneer Meeting held last year. She will participate in a workshop panel discussion at the second annual National Pioneer Meeting in July 2010. She presented a poster on TMS at the Nursing 2010 Symposium in April 2010, and will present a poster at the APNA conference in Oct 2010.
Susan is a member of APNA and New England APNA.
Jerry Georgette, RN, MSN, CCRC is the National Study Coordinator for VA CSP #556, “The effectiveness of rTMS in depressed VA patients.” He has been a nurse at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System for almost 25 years. His background includes med-surg, SICU, interventional radiology, and management. He has been involved in clinical research for the past 8 years and is the Lead Chapter Chair for the Association of Clinical Research Professionals (ACRP). His committee memberships include Health and Wellness, Evidence Based Practice, and the Stanford Research Personnel Advisory Committee.
Theresa C. Kormos, PMHCNS-BC, is an advanced practice/mental health clinical nurse specialist for Psych Care Consultants and NeuroWell/St. Louis Psychiatry and Psychological Services. She worked with brain modulation methodologies since 1993 and was one of the authors in the first published North American study using deep brain stimulation (DBS) for the treatment of tremor in Parkinons’s Disease and in Essential Tremor. Ms Kormos was most recently the principal investigator in an open treatment study of the Treatment of Depression in Parkinson’s Disease with Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation at Washington University School of Medicine (WUSM), St. Louis, January 2001 through Oct 2003. Her study received the first IDE which allowed for the purchase of the first rTMS device at WUSM. Since that time Ms Kormos has worked in private practice opening one of the first and few rTMS clinics in the country. She is also experienced in vagal nerve stimulation (VNS) and she is experienced in using a combination of both rTMS and VNS in select patients. She has published in the Annals of Clinical Psychiatry, the Movement Disorders and the Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association and spoken across the country on rTMS in the treatment of depression. Ms Kormos was the founding president of the Missouri Chapter of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association.
Dr. Mary T. Rosedale, PhD, PMHNP-BC, NEA-BC is an executive committee member of the International Society for Neurostimulation and is the nurse-representative on the board. She is an assistant research professor at the NYU College of Nursing with a joint appointment in the Department of Psychiatry, NYU Medical Center and is an ANCC board-certified psychiatric nurse practitioner. She is a an active member of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association and a member of the member of the Brain Stimulation, Therapeutic Modulation Investigators Committee at the Columbia Division of Brain Stimulation and Therapeutic Modulation, at Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute and has completed fellowships there both in TMS and ECT. She is principal investigator of a phenomenological study of patients’ experiences of TMS for depression, the first neurostimulation study funded by the American Psychiatric Nurses Foundation and has facilitated a TMS nurses workgroup (tms-nurses.org), disseminated a position statement for the professional society making recommendations for nursing’s role in TMS at basic and advanced levels of practice. She is co-editing a landmark issue devoted of the Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association in October, 2009 dedicated to TMS and with colleagues, will conduct a preconference neurostimulation workshop and TMS qualitative research presentation at the national conference of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association in October, 2009, Charleston, South Carolina. A recent finalist in the prestigious Robert Wood Johnson Nurse Faculty Scholars Program for her research characterizing post-ECT functioning to optimize outcomes for women > age 60, Dr. Rosedale looks forward to fostering international nursing participation to promote interdisciplinary research and to deliver that knowledge to the clinical interface. She is the 2009 Novice Nurse Research Award recipient from the Foundation of New York State which identifies the most promising nurse researcher in the NY State. Read more here, at the Brain Stimulation and Therapeutic Modulation Division at Columbia University Medical Center.
Amy J. Rust, R.N., B.A. earned a Bachelors of Arts in Psychology from the College of St. Benedict in St. Joseph, Minnesota, and a Baccalaureate of Science Nursing Major from the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, Minnesota. Amy currently works at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, IL in the Psychiatric Clinical Research Center as a Nurse Clinician II for the TMS Center. Currently, she is developing and managing the TMS clinical service in outpatient psychiatry. Amy has been administering TMS to patients with depression since it was approved by the FDA for clinical treatment.
Amy is a member of the American Psychiatric Nursing Association and participates in the Emerging Healthcare Professionals group at Rush University Medical Center. Her background includes working with acute adult, child and adolescent psychiatric inpatient populations as well as the outpatient setting. Amy also educates nurses and other healthcare professionals and students about TMS and psychiatric nursing.
