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 currently 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 in both 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.

She is an active member of the International Continence Society (ICS), where she serves as the elected chair of the nursing committee. Her recent 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). In the forthcoming second edition of Fecal Incontinence for the Advanced Practice Nurse, she authored the chapter on fecal incontinence in community-dwelling older adults. Most recently, she participated in the ICS 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).