Tamara Dickinson, M.S.N., APRN, AGPCNP-BC, CURN, CCCN

Meet Tamara Dickinson

Tamara earned a master’s degree in nursing from the University of South Alabama. She serves as an adult-geriatric nurse practitioner in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at UT Southwestern Medical Center, where she focuses on evaluation and management within the Comprehensive Pelvic Floor Program and the Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Program. Her research interests include the epidemiology of pelvic floor dysfunction in men and the effects of hypermobility on arthralgia in aging.

An active member of the International Continence Society, Tamara serves as the elected chair of the nursing committee. Her publications include Advanced Assessment of the Patient with Urinary Incontinence and Voiding Dysfunction in Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Core Curriculum (Engberg S., editor; 2021). She authored the chapter on fecal incontinence in community-dwelling older adults for the forthcoming second edition of Fecal Incontinence for the Advanced Practice Nurse. She also participated in the International Continence Society Masterclass on Conservative Continence Management (2024) and contributed to two ICS podcasts: “Discussion of Bowel and Bladder Training Document” (2024) and “Getting Involved with the ICS: A Nursing and Physiotherapist Perspective” (2023).