Dr. Joseph C.W. Tham
Dr. Joseph Tham is an assistant clinical professor at UBC Hospital, Clinical Neurosciences, Div of Neuropsychiatry and the BC Neuropsychiatry Program.
He graduated from medical school at the University of Alberta and completed his psychiatry residency at the University of Calgary. He was certified in neuropsychiatry after completing the Clinical Neuropsychiatry Fellowship at the University of British Columbia in 2003.
Since then, Dr. Tham has been working at the BC Provincial Neuropsychiatry Program with inpatient and outpatient privileges at UBC Hospital. Research interests include neuropsychiatric treatment of MS patients, medical management of behavioral dysregulation in traumatic brain injury, and the treatment of somatoform disorders.
Dr. Tham will present on: The diagnosis and treatment of Somatization and Conversion Disorder
Learning objectives:
- To learn about the controversies surrounding the diagnostic category of somatoform disorder
- To learn about the presentation, diagnosis, and treatment of conversion disorder
- To learn about somatization, the process whereby psychiatric distress is converted into physical symptom