When he’s not at the office, Dr. Bermudes treasures spending time with his wife and four children. He recharges by trail running and mountain biking, and is an ardent devotee of pourover coffee.
Originally from Sonoma County, Dr. Bermudes earned his medical degree from the University of California, San Diego in 1997. He served as Chief Resident for the Family Medicine/Psychiatry Combined Program at the University of Cincinnati, then completed a fellowship in cognitive therapy and cognitive therapy supervision at the Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy and Research in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Dr. Bermudes went on to hold professorships and clinical appointments at the University of Cincinnati and University of California, Davis, where he treated patients and served as medical director, taught and supervised residents, and lectured on topics from homelessness and mental health to co-occurring mental and physical illnesses. He has also served as attending physician at hospitals in the Sacramento area.
In 2007, Dr. Bermudes founded a group practice, now known as TMS Health Solutions. He completed specialized TMS training in February 2010 and was the first provider to offer the treatment for depression in the Sacramento, CA, area.
Dr. Bermudes is a founding member of the Clinical TMS Society. He chaired the group first annual meeting in 2013 and was elected as its president in 2015, serving for two years. He currently serves on the Board of Directors.
Through his career, Dr. Bermudes has researched as well as edited and authored articles on cognitive therapy techniques, the metabolic syndrome, and medication-associated obesity. He is editor of and contributor to Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: Clinical Applications for Psychiatric Practitioners, published by the APA in 2017.
Bergeron, S. and Bermudes, R. (2017). Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: Clinical Applications for Psychiatric Practice. In Bermudes, R., Lanocha, K., Janicak, P.G. (Eds.). Nonpharmacological Interventions and TMS Therapy: Neurological and Clinical Rationale for a Multimodal Approach (pp. 13-28). American Psychiatric Press Inc., Arlington, VA.
medical services use among community mental health patients with severe mental illness; the influence of gender and insurance coverage. Prim Care Companion J Clin Psychiatry 2010 12(5).