General Info

Inspire TMS Denver was founded by Sam Clinch, MD, a board-certified Psychiatrist with over 10 years’ experience in the field. He opened Inspire TMS Denver after realizing the limitations of medications and counseling for a significant portion of his patients. He dove back into the latest literature on advanced treatments and saw that TMS was providing solutions for those with treatment resistance. He has provided TMS services at the VA during his residency training, completed a fellowship at Duke University in TMS, and received additional TMS training through the Clinical TMS Society. His peers recognized him as a 5280 Top Doctor in Psychiatry for 2020 and he is a member of the American Psychiatric Association, Colorado Psychiatric Association, and the Clinical TMS Society. He was a finalist for Teacher of the Year for the CO Permanente Medical Group in 2017 and the Behavioral Health Provider of the Year for the Hidden Lake Medical Office in 2017. Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (commonly shortened to just TMS) is a treatment that requires no medication use and is free of systemic side effects. It is provided in an outpatient setting and a non-invasive treatment that uses electromagnetic fields, similar to those produced in an MRI, to stimulate brain activity at specific locations on the outer cortex of the brain. The primary indication for TMS is treatment-resistant clinical depression - unresponsiveness and/or intolerance to antidepressants. TMS was cleared by the FDA in 2008 to treat major depression and additional indications are being identified on an ongoing basis.