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Tamara Pringsheim is a Professor with the Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Psychiatry, Pediatrics and Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary. Tamara Pringsheim
(she / her)
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Positions
Professor
Cumming School of Medicine, Department of Clinical Neurosciences
Child Health & Wellness Researcher
Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, Owerko Centre
Full Member
Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Mathison Centre for Mental Health Research and Education
Educational Background
B.S.
, , 1995
Doctor of Medicine , , 1999
M.S. Clinical Epidemiology, University of Toronto, 2008
Biography
Dr. Her research program has focused on rational pharmacotherapy and evidence-based treatment for neurological and mental health disorders. Through her experience as a clinician, she has identified problems in the care of individuals with neurological diseases and mental illness, including inappropriate use of medication, inadequate access to appropriate care, a lack of national care standards, and a high burden of disease. Her research program uses knowledge synthesis, exchange and mobilization strategies to address these gaps in the safety of care, the effectiveness of care and the appropriateness of care. She creates solutions for these gaps through knowledge syntheses, clinical practice guidelines, care pathways, drug and disease registries, patient decision aids, educational curricula, tools for practice for physicians, and investigation of novel approaches to treatment. The outcomes of this collective work include improved care for individuals with neurological and mental health disorders, prevention of chronic disease and better health outcomes.
POSTPONED—OBAD Presents: Dirty Filthy Love (2004)—Movie Screening and Moderated Talk with Dr.
Tamara Pringsheim
A new date will be announced soon.
Due to the rising cases of COVID-19 cases in Alberta, out of an abundance of caution and care we have decided to postpone this event to a late date. Contemporary Calgary requires visitors ages 12 and older to provide proof of vaccination by scannable QR Code, documentation of a medical exemption, or a negative PCR or rapid test within the last 72 hours in order to enter the gallery.
Join neurologist Dr Tamara Pringsheim at a screening of the cult classic starring Martin Sheen and Shirley Henderson: “a darkly funny, quirky and poignant story of a man with obsessive-compulsive disorder and Tourette syndrome negotiating his way through divorce, his best friend’s matchmaking efforts and a woman who introduces him to therapy, filth and unconditional love.”
The film will be followed by an audience question and answer session with Dr Tamara Pringsheim, moderated by Dick Averns.
Diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome well into his adult life, Dick has become and advocate for addressing mood disorders through art, and in 2020 received the City of Calgary Mayor’s Cultural Leaders Legacy Award for Healing Through the Arts.
About Us
The University of Calgary, located in the heart of Southern Alberta, both acknowledges and pays tribute to the traditional territories of the peoples of Treaty 7, which include the Blackfoot Confederacy (comprised of the Siksika, the Piikani, and the Kainai First Nations), the Tsuut’ina First Nation, and the Stoney Nakoda (including Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Goodstoney First Nations).
This event marks both the final weekend of the exhibition Perspectives from Within and Bell Let’s Talk Day. Co-produced with Contemporary Calgary Perspectives From Within is curated by Dick Averns and presented by the Organization of Bipolar Disorders (OBAD) and their creative arm SITEc PROJECTS.
About the Speakers
Dr.
Tamara Pringsheim is a Professor with the Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Psychiatry, Pediatrics and Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary. She is the program lead for the Tourette and Pediatric Movement Disorder program at Alberta Children’s Hospital and the Deputy Director of the Mathison Centre for Mental Health Research and Education. She also works as an evidence-based medicine methodologist for the American Academy of Neurology. She is the president of the Tourette OCD Alberta Network, a nonprofit organization that supports people living with Tourette syndrome and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Alberta, and provides education and training on these disorders to healthcare providers.
Tamara Pringsheim is a Professor with the Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Psychiatry, Pediatrics and Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary. She is the program lead for the Tourette and Pediatric Movement Disorder program at Alberta Children’s Hospital and the Deputy Director of the Mathison Centre for Mental Health Research and Education. She also works as an evidence-based medicine methodologist for the American Academy of Neurology. She is the president of the Tourette OCD Alberta Network, a nonprofit organization that supports people living with Tourette syndrome and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Alberta, and provides education and training on these disorders to healthcare providers.
As a neurologist specializing in movement disorders, neuropsychiatry and neurodevelopmental disorders, these three clinical interests intersect in the study and care of individuals with Tourette syndrome, which has been the center of Dr Pringsheim’s clinical and academic work.
The city of Calgary is also home to the Métis Nation within Alberta (including Nose Hill Métis District 5 and Elbow Métis District 6).
The University of Calgary is situated on land Northwest of where the Bow River meets the Elbow River, a site traditionally known as Moh’kins’tsis to the Blackfoot, Wîchîspa to the Stoney Nakoda, and Guts’ists’i to the Tsuut’ina.
Tamara Pringsheim - Neurologist and specialist in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Tourette Syndrome.
Dick Averns - Artist, curator, and researcher into art and community mental wellness.
This free public program accompanies the current exhibition, Perspectives From Within, exploring the lived experience of mental health and neuro-divergence.
This is an in-person program.
He was deployed with Canadian Forces as an official war artist in The Middle East and curates at The University of Calgary Founders’ Gallery at The Military Museums.
As an educator in 2017 he was named by Canadian Art Magazine as one of Canada’s leading post-secondary instructors to incorporate wellness into his teaching.
Neurology and mental health
As a neurologist specializing in movement disorders, neuropsychiatry and neurodevelopmental disorders, these three clinical interests intersect in the study and care of individuals with Tourette syndrome, which has been the center of Dr Pringsheim’s clinical and academic work.
Existing Ticket holders will be automatically pre-registered for the rescheduled date once identified. We have added a waitlist in hopes of expanding ticket capacity should it be safe to do so for the rescheduled event.
Presented by SITEc PROJECTS and OBAD – The Organization for Bipolar Affective Disorders, in partnership with Contemporary Calgary.
Dr.
She is the program lead for the Tourette and Pediatric Movement Disorder program at Alberta Children’s Hospital and the Deputy Director of the Mathison Centre for Mental Health Research and Education. Tamara is also president of the Tourette OCD Alberta Network, a nonprofit organization that supports people living with Tourette syndrome and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, and provides education and training on these disorders to healthcare providers.
Dick Averns
(he / him)
Dick Averns is a curator, artist and writer whose research specialties include conflict, mental health and public art.
On this land and in this place we strive to learn together, walk together, and grow together “in a good way.”
Tamara Pringsheim
Biography
Dr. Masks are mandatory, and physical distancing will be maintained.