Pain Academy
The PAIN Academy is CTMSS’s newly developed training program tailored to providers interested in utilizing TMS for pain disorders. Attendees in this track will participate in the following lecture series.
What do attendees learn?
- Review of Pain Pathophysiology, Classification, and Assessment as it relates to TMS as a therapeutic modality for treating Pain Disorders.
- Review of Foundational and Pivotal trials for Utilization of TMS as a therapeutic modality for Pain
- Overview of Outcome Evidence and current evidence-based protocols for TMS for chronic neuropathic pain, acute pain, fibromyalgia, headache/migraine, CRPS, Cancer Pain and peripheral Magnetic Stimulation
- Overview of TMS Technology including Neuronavigation principles
- Practical clinical treatment considerations for pain clinics and case discussions
Next opportunity to attend:
PULSES & Pain Academy: June 2026
Date: 4 June 2026
Who Attends the Pain Academy?
The Pain Academy content is designed for a wide range of medical and clinical professionals seeking comprehensive education and practical skills in Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation. Our attendees include:
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Anesthesiologists
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Neurologists
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Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants
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Pain Management Providers
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Physiatrists
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Primary Care / Behavioral Health Care Providers
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Psychiatrists
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TMS Clinical Researchers
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TMS Technicians
If you are currently offering TMS or plan to integrate TMS into your practice or clinical research, the CTMSS Pain Academy offers the essential knowledge and hands-on training you need.
Our Experts
The Pain Academy is led by a distinguished international faculty of highly skilled clinicians, researchers, and pioneers in Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS). Each faculty member brings extensive real-world experience, groundbreaking research, and deep insights from diverse clinical settings globally. Their dedication to advancing TMS education ensures that participants receive comprehensive, evidence-based training directly from the field's most respected leaders. This collective expertise provides an unparalleled learning experience, preparing you for successful TMS practice.
Christina Hughes
Pain Academy Director
Christopher Chan Yi Wen
Johnson Fam
Cyrus Su Hui Ho
Albert Y. Leung
Pain Academy Faculty
Say Yang Ong
Pain Academy Faculty
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Pain Academy Director
Christina Hughes, MD, FCTMSS
Dr. Christina Hughes is the Medical Director for the Kitsap and Tacoma division of Seattle Neuropsychiatric Treatment Center (SeattleNTC) and the Pain Academy Course Director. She is a Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation physician with fellowship training in Multiple Sclerosis. In addition to founding the CTMSS Pain Academy training course, she is on the CTMSS Board of Directors, is active in the Society’s Training Committee, Membership Committee, and Mentorship Programs. Dr. Hughes is trained on MagVenture, MagStim, Neurostar, and Brainsway devices. With a clinical interest in TMS for more than 10 years, Dr. Hughes specializes in neurorehabilitation with a passion for expanding awareness and access to high-quality, non-invasive treatments for depression and other neuro-psychiatric disorders. She is also active in the non-profit FACTMS (Foundation for the Advancement of Clinical TMS) and helped the foundation establish its first TMS clinic for underserved populations, the Neil S. Hirsch Clinic at the Kitsap Mental Health Services in Washington State.
Pain Academy Faculty
Albert Y. Leung, MD
Dr. Albert Leung is a Professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine. He is the founder and Director of the Center for Pain and Headache Research and Center for TMS at the VA San Diego Healthcare System. His research, which includes the application of transcranial or transcutaneous magnetic stimulation for pain or headaches, has received funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Department of Defense, and the Veteran Affairs Office of Research and Development and Technology Transfer Program. His work has been published extensively in peer-reviewed journals. He is the lead author of the international TMS consensus panel guideline paper for pain. In addition to serving as a founding faculty for the PAIN ACADEMY Course, Dr. Leung is actively involved with CTMSS, is on the Board of Directors and is Co-chair of the Training Committee. He is a member of the editorial board and a Deputy Editor of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Developing Indications, Pain & Headache.
Pain Academy Faculty
Say Yang Ong, MBBS, MMed (Anaes), FANZCA, FFPMANZCA
Dr Say Yang Ong is a senior consultant anaesthesiologist with Alexandra Hospital and National University Hospital in Singapore. He underwent a one-year fellowship in chronic pain management at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Royal Adelaide Hospital in Adelaide, Australia in 2018. His clinical interests are in regional and obstetric anaesthesia, and chronic pain management, particularly in neuromodulation such as spinal cord stimulation and transcranial magnetic stimulation. He currently heads the Pain Service at Alexandra Hospital, as well as the Pain Management Unit at the National University Hospital.
Albert Y. Leung, MD
Dr. Albert Leung is a Professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine. He is the founder and Director of the Center for Pain and Headache Research and Center for TMS at the VA San Diego Healthcare System. His research, which includes the application of transcranial or transcutaneous magnetic stimulation for pain or headaches, has received funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Department of Defense, and the Veteran Affairs Office of Research and Development and Technology Transfer Program. His work has been published extensively in peer-reviewed journals. He is the lead author of the international TMS consensus panel guideline paper for pain. In addition to serving as a founding faculty for the PAIN ACADEMY Course, Dr. Leung is actively involved with CTMSS, is on the Board of Directors and is Co-chair of the Training Committee. He is a member of the editorial board and a Deputy Editor of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Developing Indications, Pain & Headache.
Christopher Chan Yi Wen, MBBS (Singapore), M.Med (Psychiatry)
Dr. Christopher Chan is a consultant psychiatrist with a private practice at the Psychiatric Care Clinic, Gleneagles. He subspecialises in mood and anxiety disorders and neurostimulation. He has a special interest in complex mood disorders and interventional psychiatry. At the Institute of Mental Health, he led the Affective Disorders Service, which was the only quaternary service for the management of treatment-resistant mood disorders in Singapore, and he was the primary ward consultant at the Mood Disorders Unit. During this period, he was actively involved in education and research and was awarded national grants. He is currently chairperson of the Section of Neurostimulation, College of Psychiatrists (Singapore).
Cyrus Su Hui Ho, MBBS, MSc, PhD, FRCPsych, FRCP, FAMS, IFAPA
Dr. Cyrus Ho is a Senior Consultant Psychiatrist at the National University Hospital and Assistant Professor at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS). His clinical and research interests span the interface between medicine and psychiatry, complex mood disorders, neuropsychiatry, and public mental health. Dr. Ho completed advanced neuropsychiatry training at the Montreal Neurological Hospital in Canada and the Royal Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Unit in Australia. He has authored over 380 peer-reviewed papers and six books, earning recognition by Clarivate Analytics Web of Science as one of the world’s most highly cited researchers in Cross-Field Research (2021–2023) and in Neuroscience and Behaviour (2024). He teaches undergraduates and postgraduates and serves as the Psychiatry Undergraduate Education Director at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. He is also Assistant Dean of Student Life and Wellbeing at the NUS Graduate School.
Johnson Fam, MBBS, MMed (Psych), MRes, PhD
Dr. Johnson Fam is a an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore and past Chair of the Section of Neurostimulation, College of Psychiatrists, Academy of Medicine, Singapore. He is a psychiatrist with clinical and research interests in affective disorders, cognitive disorders, psychopharmacology, neuroimaging and neurostimulation. He underwent advanced clinical training in therapeutic neuromodulation at Duke University Hospital and the Medical University of South Carolina, USA. At the National University Hospital, he ran subspecialty clinics for mood disorders and was the founding director of the Brain Stimulation service. He is presently the clinical lead for TMS and tDCS services and Head of Psychiatry at the Singapore General Hospital.