New TMS Clinic opens at MAPrc

On the 31st October 2012 the Minister for Health, Mary Wooldridge, launched the MAPrc TMS Clinic – the first publicly funded program for the provision of TMS in the treatment of depression in Australia.

 


In 2011, Professor Paul Fitzgerald received a Department of Health New Technology Funding Grant to setup this world first clinical service. In addition to treating patients, the clinic will play a role in training clinicians to setup similar TMS programs in regional centres, interstate and internationally.

This is the culmination of over a decade of Professor Fitzgerald’s research into the effectiveness, safety and optimisation of TMS for patients who have been unable to find relief from their depression. The establishment of a clinical service to provide a specialised treatment to those patients experiencing this treatment resistant depression will have a considerable impact on both the health outcomes for individual patients as well the wider community.

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For more information, or to access the clinic services, please contact Dr Sally Herring on 9076 6595 or via email Sally.Herring@monash.edu  

 

 

 

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