Wednesday October 17
20.00 DINNER at the Certosa di Pontignano
Thursday October 18
08.30 Welcome Organizers
08.40 Review of safety aspects: the “heritage” of the 1998/2008 meetings – Mark Hallett
08.45 – 10.00 SESSION 1
New TMS Devices
Angel Peterchev, Marom Bikson, Risto Ilmoniemi, Abraham Zangen, Letizia Leocani
Representatives of Magstim, Rogue, Magventure, EBNeuro:
Sanne Jessen, Lothar Krinke, Andrew Thomas, Marco Rossi, Dan Phillips, Roch Comeau,
Cristian Brunelli
Risk analysis and management
Technical safety
Stimulation dose safety
Maker vs user responsibilities
Brief review of new devices and paradigm
New pulse generators and stimulus waveforms
New coils
Other paradigms (Low field magnetic stimulation; transcranial static magnetic stimulation)
New machines, new stimulus waveforms and stimulation protocols (including multiple sites rTMS)
10.00 – 10.30 Discussion
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee Break
11.00 – 12.30 SESSION 2
Safety of TMS in combination with:
– MRI environment – Hartwing Roman Siebner, Michael Fox
– Metal/Electrodes brain implants – Robert Chen, Vincenzo Di Lazzaro, Angel Peterchev
– tDCS/tACS – Emiliano Santarnecchi
– Drugs – Ulf Ziemann, Linda Carpenter
– Experimental/animal models – Abraham Zangen, Sarah Lisanby
12.30-12.45 Discussion
13.00-14.00 LUNCH
14.00 – 15.30 SESSION 3
Side effects
Seizures – Eric Wassermann, Vasilios Kimiskidis, Mouhsin Shafi
Hearing – Mark Hallett
Cognitive – Sven Bestmann, Carlo Miniussi
Special issues for children and pregnancy – Alexander Rotenberg, Donald Gilbert
Maladaptive plasticity (including PAS protocols)? – Giacomo Koch, Angelo Quartarone
Magnetic seizure therapy – Sarah Lisanby
15.30 – 16.00 Discussion
16.00 – 16.30 COFFEE BREAK
16.30 – 18.00 SESSION 4
Side effects in patient populations
Neurology and Rehab – Yoshikazu Ugawa, Paolo Maria Rossini, Mark Hallett
Psychiatry – Mark George, Zafiris Daskalakis, Frank Padberg
18.00 – 18.30 Discussion
20.00 DINNER Sala Caminetto
Friday October 19
8.30 – 10.00 SESSION 5
Update of safety tables
rTMS, Thetaburst, QPS, PA – Jogn Rothwell, Robert Chen, Simone Rossi
10.00 – 10.30 Discussion
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee Break
11.00 – 12.30 SESSION 6
Training of operators
Requirements for TMS users (summary of the IFCN Training paper
Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Walter Paulus
Safety for operators (magnetic field exposure) – Massimo Cincotta
12.30 – 13.00 Discussion
13.00-14.00 LUNCH
14.00 – 15.30 SESSION 7
Ethics and Regulatory issues
Paolo Maria Rossini, Linda Carpenter, Walter Paulus, Jürgen Blockmöller
15.30 – 16.00 Discussion
16.00 – 16.30 Coffee Break
16.30 – 18.30 SESSION 8
New safety guidelines: opening comments
Organizers
General discussion and final plan
19.30 Bus transfer to Social dinner in Siena
20.00 Social dinner
Enoteca I Terzi
(supported by Rogue Reaseach)
Saturday October 21
Eventual extra-discussion (separate groups for each session 1-7), if needed
ore 10.30 Coffee break
Departures