Wesselmann, Ursula, Ph.D., M.D.

Clinical Subspecialty and Area(s) of Interest

• Urogenital and pelvic pain in women

Education and Degrees

• Harvard Medical School, Pain Medicine Fellowship, 1994
• Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Pain Medicine Fellowship, 1995
• Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Medical Doctor, West Germany, 1983
• London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, DTM&H (Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene), 1985
• Physiological Institute, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, West-Germany,  Research Fellow in Neurophysiology, 1985
• Physiological Institute, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, West-Germany Dr. med., (PhD equivalent), 1987
• Northwestern University Medical School, Internal Medicine Internship (PGY-1), 1990
• The University of Chicago, Neurology Residency (PGY-2 to PGY-4), 1993

Awards and Honors

• Recipient, scholarship of the "Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes" (German National Merit Scholarship Program)
• Recipient, dissertation-scholarship of the "Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes"
• Recipient of the "Wolf-Boas-Preis" (5000 DM) for dissertation: "Untersuchungen der Impulsübertragung im Ganglion Mesentericum Inferius", Heidelberg, West-Germany
• Recipient, research fellowship, Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome Association of America
• Passano Physician Scientist Award
• Visiting Scientist Fellowship Grant awarded by Flinders University of South Australia.
• Research Award, National Vulvodynia Association
• Research Award, National Vulvodynia Association

• Finalist: Rita Allen Foundation Scholars, Princeton Club, New York
• Certificate of Appreciation, National Institutes of Health, Office of Research on Women's Health
• Selected to present at Reproduction 2003: a forum of scientific presentations to highlight the advances and groundbreaking research of outstanding funded grantees. NIH/National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Reproductive Sciences Branch
• Honorary Member, Indian Society for Pain Research and Therapy
• 2007-2008 Best Doctors in America Database

Professional Societies

• Society for Neuroscience
• International Brain Research Association
• American Academy of Neurology
• International Association for the Study of Pain
• American Pain Society
• American Physiological Society
• International Society for Autonomic Neuroscience
• International Council on Women's Health Issues
• The International Pelvic Pain Society
• American Neurological Association

Recent Publications

• Moormann O, Planz B, Caspers HP, Wesselmann U.[Chronic prostatitis. Chronic pelvic pain syndrome] Schmerz. 2004 Apr;18(2):125-9. Review. German.
• Lempa M, Grotemeyer KH, Häuser W, Moormann O, Wesselmann U, Derra C. [Dysfunctional syndromes: their diagnostics and treatment]Schmerz. 2004 Apr;18(2):141-4. Review. German
• Häuser W, Türp JC, Lempa M, Wesselmann U, Derra C. [Functional somatic pain syndromes-nomenclature]Schmerz. 2004 Apr;18(2):98-103. Review. German. Erratum in: Schmerz. 2004 Jun;18(3):223.
•  Heinberg LJ, Fisher BJ, Wesselmann U, Reed J, Haythornthwaite JA. 

  Psychological factors in pelvic/urogenital pain: the influence of site of pain versus sex. Pain. 2004 Mar;108(1-2):88-94.
• Edwards RR, Sarlani E, Wesselmann U, Fillingim RB. 

  Quantitative assessment of experimental pain perception: multiple domains of clinical relevance. Pain. 2005 Apr;114(3):315-9. Review. No abstract available
• Weijmar Schultz W, Basson R, Binik Y, Eschenbach D, Wesselmann U, Van Lankveld J.

  Women's sexual pain and its management. J Sex Med. 2005 May;2(3):301-16.
• Baranowski AB, Collett T, Newton-John, Wesselmann U.  Urogenital pain-taking management forward.  Proceedings of the 11th World Congress in Pain (IASP Press, Seattle, WA), 681-693, 2006.
• Abrams P, Baranowski A, Berger RE, Fall M, Hanno P, Wesselmann U. 

  A new classification is needed for pelvic pain syndromes--are existing terminologies of spurious diagnostic authority bad for patients?J Urol. 2006 Jun;175(6):1989-90. No abstract available.
• Bachmann GA, Rosen R, Pinn VW, Utian WH, Ayers C, Basson R, Binik YM, Brown C, Foster DC, Gibbons JM Jr, Goldstein I, Graziottin A, Haefner HK, Harlow BL, Spadt SK, Leiblum SR, Masheb RM, Reed BD, Sobel JD, Veasley C, Wesselmann U, Witkin SS. Vulvodynia: a state-of-the-art consensus on definitions, diagnosis and management.J Reprod Med. 2006 Jun;51(6):447-56.
• Baranowski AP, Abrams P, Berger RE, Buffington CA, de C Williams AC, Hanno P, Loeser JD, Nickel JC, Wesselmann U. 

  Urogenital pain--time to accept a new approach to phenotyping and, as a consequence, management.

  Eur Urol. 2008 Jan;53(1):33-6. Epub 2007 Oct 15. No abstract available.
• Warren JW, Brown J, Tracy JK, Langenberg P, Wesselmann U, Greenberg P. 

  Evidence-based criteria for pain of interstitial cystitis/painful bladder syndrome in women.

  Urology. 2008 Mar;71(3):444-8.
• Collett BJ, Berkley K, and Task Force on Fact Sheets for the Global Year against 'Pain in Women' 2007/2008:  Aloisi MA, Amata A, Berger P, Czakanski P, Derbyshire S, Doctor T, Fillingim R, Giamberardino MA, Gray G, Helou A, Holdercroft A, Keogh E, Kreiter K, LeResche L, McGrath P, Mogil J, Stones W, Storr F, Traub R, Tu F, Wesselmann U.  Editorial:  The IASP Global Year Against Pain in Women.  Pain, 132, S1-2, 2007.
• Greenspan JD, Craft RM, LeResche L, Arendt-Nielsen L, Berkley KJ, Fillingim RB, Gold MS, Holdcroft A, Lautenbacher S, Mayer EA, Mogil JS, Murphy AZ, Traub RJ, and the Consensus Working Group of the Sex, Gender, and Pain SIG of the IASP:  Aloisi AM, Univ. of Sienna, Italy;, Arendt-Nielsen L, Aalborg Univ., Denmark.  Arnold A, UCLA, USA; Bereiter D, University of Minnesota, USA;Berkley K, Florida State Univ., USA; Blaustein J, University of Massachussets, USA; Bodnar R, Queens College, CUNY, USA; Chang L, UCLA, USA; Craft R, Washington State Univ., USA; Fillingim R, Univ. of Florida, USA; Gintzler A, SUNY Downstate, USA; Gold M, Univ. of Pittsburgh, USA; Greenspan J, Univ. of Maryland, USA; Hargreaves K, Univ. of Texas, San Antonio, USA; Holdcroft A, Imperial College, London, UK; Keogh E, Univ. of Bath, UK; Lautenbacher L, Univ. of Bamburg, Germany; LeResche L, Univ. of Washington, USA; Mayer E, UCLA, USA; McCarthy M, Univ. of Maryland, USA; Mogil J, McGill University, Canada; Murphy A, Georgia State Univ., USA; Naliboff B, UCLA, USA; Robinson M, Univ. of florida, USA; Steiner M, McMaster Univ., Canada, Ch. Stohler, Univ. of Maryland, USA; Traub R, Univ. of Maryland, USA; Wesselmann U, Johns Hopkins Univ., USA; Young E, Univ. of Michigan, USA, Studying sex and gender differences in pain, and analgesia; a consensus report.  Pain, 132, S26-45, 2007.