Samantha Baldi, PhD

Joe Taylor, MD

Samantha Baldi / Joe Taylor

For our October session, we will host Samantha Baldi and Joe Taylor on Thursday, October 29th, 2026.

Samantha Baldi, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Her research investigates how targeted brain stimulation affects neural circuits and clinical symptoms, particularly in patients with depression and anxiety. She presented on “Guiding TMS with Resting-State Functional Connectivity: Targeting, Engagement, and Stratification.”

Joe Taylor, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Medical Director of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Director of Noninvasive Neuromodulation Clinical Trials at Mass General Brigham. His research focuses on developing brain circuit–based treatments for neuropsychiatric disorders, using network mapping and targeted brain stimulation to improve treatment precision. He presented on “The Philosopher’s Scan: From Laboratory Lead to Clinical Gold in Psychiatry.”

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