Towards accredited clinical training in brain stimulation: Proceedings from the brain stimulation subspecialty summits
The rapid development and clinical use of brain stimulation has renewed debates about whether to define and accredit a pathway for clinical subspecialty training. To address this, the Brain Stimulation Subspecialty Summits (BraSSS) were convened in 2023 and 2024, featuring international leaders in b...
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| author | Shan H. Siddiqi Leo Chen Nicholas T. Trapp Noreen Bukhari-Parlakturk Joseph J. Taylor Aaron D. Boes Joshua C. Brown Tracy Barbour Joan A. Camprodon Michael D. Fox Brian H. Kopell Carlene MacMillan Alfonso Fasano Robert S. Fisher Ziad Nahas Gonzalo J. Revuelta Patricio Riva-Posse John D. Rolston Katherine Scangos Mouhsin M. Shafi Andrew H. Smith Joshua Wong Casey H. Halpern Helen S. Mayberg Nolan R. Williams |
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| description | The rapid development and clinical use of brain stimulation has renewed debates about whether to define and accredit a pathway for clinical subspecialty training. To address this, the Brain Stimulation Subspecialty Summits (BraSSS) were convened in 2023 and 2024, featuring international leaders in brain stimulation across psychiatry, neurology, neurosurgery, psychology, and neuroscience. Both meetings included two days of lectures and debates focused on clinical content, emerging science, and educational standards. The 2023 meeting was held at Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard University, where 54 attendees reached a consensus that the subspecialty is adequately developed to warrant formal recognition and initiated debates regarding the name and scope of the subspecialty. The 2024 meeting was held at Stanford University, where 56 attendees developed a content outline, organized committees, and reached a consensus to form an independent society focused on developing and maintaining unbiased accreditation standards. “Brain stimulation” was chosen democratically as the name of the subspecialty. Clinicians from multiple primary specialties may enter this subspecialty training track. While individual programs may have a specific area of focus (e.g. interventional psychiatry or epilepsy), our expectation is that accredited brain stimulation programs will provide training experiences that cross specialties and stimulation modalities. Several potential unintended consequences were discussed, and plans were developed to address them. Overall, subspecialty recognition was deemed to be beneficial to the brain stimulation field, with a goal to launch an associated society and start the process of accrediting existing US and Canadian programs in 2025. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-c72f084d16f74a6790a19a35d1126e342025-08-20T03:09:01ZengElsevierBrain Stimulation1935-861X2025-03-0118229830510.1016/j.brs.2025.02.012Towards accredited clinical training in brain stimulation: Proceedings from the brain stimulation subspecialty summitsShan H. Siddiqi0Leo Chen1Nicholas T. Trapp2Noreen Bukhari-Parlakturk3Joseph J. Taylor4Aaron D. Boes5Joshua C. Brown6Tracy Barbour7Joan A. Camprodon8Michael D. Fox9Brian H. Kopell10Carlene MacMillan11Alfonso Fasano12Robert S. Fisher13Ziad Nahas14Gonzalo J. Revuelta15Patricio Riva-Posse16John D. Rolston17Katherine Scangos18Mouhsin M. Shafi19Andrew H. Smith20Joshua Wong21Casey H. Halpern22Helen S. Mayberg23Nolan R. Williams24Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics, Mass General Brigham, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Mass General Brigham, Boston, MA, USA; Division of Neurotherapeutics, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA, USA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Corresponding author. Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics, Mass General Brigham, Boston, MA, USA.Department of Psychiatry, School of Translational Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; Alfred Mental and Addiction Health, Alfred Health, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA; Iowa Neuroscience Institute, Iowa City, IA, USADepartment of Neurology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA; Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, Durham, NC, USACenter for Brain Circuit Therapeutics, Mass General Brigham, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Mass General Brigham, Boston, MA, USA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USAIowa Neuroscience Institute, Iowa City, IA, USA; Departments of Pediatrics and Neurology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USADivision of Neurotherapeutics, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA, USA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Brain Stimulation Mechanisms Laboratory, Division of Depression and Anxiety Disorders, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA, USAHarvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Division of Neuropsychiatry and Neuromodulation, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USAHarvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Division of Neuropsychiatry and Neuromodulation, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USACenter for Brain Circuit Therapeutics, Mass General Brigham, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Mass General Brigham, Boston, MA, USA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Neurology, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USACenter for Neuromodulation and the Bonnie and Tom Strauss Movement Disorders Center, Department of Neurosurgery, Mount Sinai Health System, New York, NY, USAFermata, Brooklyn, NY, USA; Osmind, San Francisco, CA, USA; American Psychiatric Association, Washington, DC, USAEdmond J. Safra Program in Parkinson's Disease, Morton and Gloria Shulman Movement Disorders Clinic, Toronto Western Hospital, UHN, Toronto, ON, Canada; Division of Neurology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Krembil Brain Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada; CenteR for Advancing Neurotechnological Innovation to Application (CRANIA), CanadaDepartment of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USADepartment of Psychiatry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USADepartment of Neurology, Medical University of South Carlina, Charleston, SC, USA; Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center, Charleston, SC, USADepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USACenter for Brain Circuit Therapeutics, Mass General Brigham, Boston, MA, USA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Mapping & Engineering Neural Dynamics (MEND) Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USADepartment of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Department of Neurosurgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USAHarvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation, Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USACenter for Neuromodulation and the Bonnie and Tom Strauss Movement Disorders Center, Department of Neurosurgery, Mount Sinai Health System, New York, NY, USADepartment of Neurology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USAOsmind, San Francisco, CA, USADepartment of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USADepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford University, California, USAThe rapid development and clinical use of brain stimulation has renewed debates about whether to define and accredit a pathway for clinical subspecialty training. To address this, the Brain Stimulation Subspecialty Summits (BraSSS) were convened in 2023 and 2024, featuring international leaders in brain stimulation across psychiatry, neurology, neurosurgery, psychology, and neuroscience. Both meetings included two days of lectures and debates focused on clinical content, emerging science, and educational standards. The 2023 meeting was held at Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard University, where 54 attendees reached a consensus that the subspecialty is adequately developed to warrant formal recognition and initiated debates regarding the name and scope of the subspecialty. The 2024 meeting was held at Stanford University, where 56 attendees developed a content outline, organized committees, and reached a consensus to form an independent society focused on developing and maintaining unbiased accreditation standards. “Brain stimulation” was chosen democratically as the name of the subspecialty. Clinicians from multiple primary specialties may enter this subspecialty training track. While individual programs may have a specific area of focus (e.g. interventional psychiatry or epilepsy), our expectation is that accredited brain stimulation programs will provide training experiences that cross specialties and stimulation modalities. Several potential unintended consequences were discussed, and plans were developed to address them. Overall, subspecialty recognition was deemed to be beneficial to the brain stimulation field, with a goal to launch an associated society and start the process of accrediting existing US and Canadian programs in 2025.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1935861X25000439 |
| spellingShingle | Shan H. Siddiqi Leo Chen Nicholas T. Trapp Noreen Bukhari-Parlakturk Joseph J. Taylor Aaron D. Boes Joshua C. Brown Tracy Barbour Joan A. Camprodon Michael D. Fox Brian H. Kopell Carlene MacMillan Alfonso Fasano Robert S. Fisher Ziad Nahas Gonzalo J. Revuelta Patricio Riva-Posse John D. Rolston Katherine Scangos Mouhsin M. Shafi Andrew H. Smith Joshua Wong Casey H. Halpern Helen S. Mayberg Nolan R. Williams Towards accredited clinical training in brain stimulation: Proceedings from the brain stimulation subspecialty summits Brain Stimulation |
| title | Towards accredited clinical training in brain stimulation: Proceedings from the brain stimulation subspecialty summits |
| title_full | Towards accredited clinical training in brain stimulation: Proceedings from the brain stimulation subspecialty summits |
| title_fullStr | Towards accredited clinical training in brain stimulation: Proceedings from the brain stimulation subspecialty summits |
| title_full_unstemmed | Towards accredited clinical training in brain stimulation: Proceedings from the brain stimulation subspecialty summits |
| title_short | Towards accredited clinical training in brain stimulation: Proceedings from the brain stimulation subspecialty summits |
| title_sort | towards accredited clinical training in brain stimulation proceedings from the brain stimulation subspecialty summits |
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