Managing senior physician at the Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, University Hospital Heidelberg

Management of the psychotherapy ward AKM with affiliated day clinic, Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, University Hospital Heidelberg

Head of psychosomatic consultation and liaison service, specialty care unit for irritable bowel syndrome, Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, University Hospital Heidelberg

Senior physician and private lecturer at the Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, University Hospital Heidelberg

Specialist in internal medicine, Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, University Hospital Heidelberg

Resident for internal medicine and psychosomatics, Department for General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, University Hospital Heidelberg

Research assistant, Institute for Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Heidelberg

Adjunct professorship (apl.) at the Medical Faculty of the Ruprechts-Karls-University Heidelberg

Habilitation, University Heidelberg, Medical Faculty; Venia legendi for the field General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics

Auxiliary designation for Emergency Medicine

Auxiliary designation for Manual Medicine

PhD, Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology under Prof. Dr. med. Mense on the differences in spinal expression of c-Fos and FosB immunoreactive neurons in the spinal cord of the rat after stimulation of nociceptive fibers of the skin and muscle"

Medical studies, Medical Faculty, University Heidelberg

Studies of Philosophy and Linguistics, University Heidelberg

German Award for Pain Research

Günter-Jantschek Research Prize of the German College of Psychosomatic Medicine (DKPM)

Postdoc Fellowship of the Physician Scientist Program of the Medical Faculty of Heidelberg

Carus scholarship holder for the "Qualification Program Clinical Research

Life Science Lab Fellow of the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg

Advanced training in relaxation techniques

Training as EMDR Psychotherapist (Level A)

Training trigger point therapy (basic level); Medical Society for Myofascial Pain

Training Medical Hypnosis Therapy
(Basic Level) German Society for Medical Hypnosis & Autogenic Training e.V.

Training in Neurorehabilitation and Mirror Therapy Seminars for Therapeutic, and Educational Specialists

Training in diagnostic and therapeutic local anesthesia, German Academy for Neural Therapy and Acupuncture

Research residence at the `Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory' (Director: Prof. Dr. T. Wager), Department of Psychology and Neuroscience and the Institute for Cognitive Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado/USA, Colorado/USA

Research residence, junior researcher at the University of California, (Director: Prof. Dr. H. Niaido), Department of Microbiology, Berkeley/USA

Berens S, Banzhaf P, Baumeister D, Gauss A, Eich W, Schaefert R, Tesarz J. J Psychosom Res (Impact factor: 3.268). 2020;128:109846. Relationship between adverse childhood experiences and illness anxiety in irritable bowel syndrome - The impact of gender. 

Goldstein P, Ashar Y, Tesarz J, Kazgan M, Cetin B, Wager TD. Neurotherapeutics (Impact factor: 5.719). 2020;17(3):774-783. Emerging Clinical Technology: Application of Machine Learning to Chronic Pain Assessments Based on Emotional Body Maps. 

Tesarz J, Eich W, Baumeister D, Kohlmann T, D'Agostino R, Schuster AK. Eur Heart J (Impact factor: 23.425). 2019;40(20):1609-1617 Widespread pain is a risk factor for cardiovascular mortality: Results from the Framingham Heart Study.

Dong Y, Baumeister D, Berens S, Eich W, Tesarz J. Front Psychiatry (Impact factor: 3.532). 2019;10:714. High Rates of Non-Response Across Treatment Attempts in Chronic Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Results From a Follow-Up Study in Tertiary Care. 

Baumeister D, Eich W, Lerner R, Lutz B, Bindila L, Tesarz J. Psychother Psychosom (Impact factor: 13.122).  2018;26:1-3. Plasma parameters of the endocannabinoid system are unaltered in fibromyalgia.

Wettstein M, Eich W, Bieber C, Tesarz J. Pain Med (Impact factor: 2.782). 2018 [Epub ahead of print]. Profiles of Subjective Well-Being in Patients with Chronic Back Pain: Contrasting Subjective and Objective Correlates.

Dong Y, Berens S, Eich W, Schaefert R, Tesarz J. BMJ Open (Impact factor: 2.413). 2018;8(10):e019453. Is body mass index associated with symptom severity and health-related quality of life in irritable bowel syndrome? A cross-sectional study.

Gerhardt A, Eich W, Treede RD, Tesarz J. PAIN (Impact factor: 5.559). 2017;158(3):430-439. Conditioned pain modulation in non-specific chronic back pain patients with chronic local pain, chronic widespread pain, and fibromyalgia.

Tesarz J, Wolfgang E, Treede RD, Gerhardt A. PAIN (Impact factor: 5.213). 2016;157(8):1799-809. Altered pressure pain thresholds and increased wind-up in adult chronic back pain patients with a history of childhood maltreatment: a quantitative sensory testing study.

Gerhardt A, Leisner S, Hartmann M, Janke S, Seidler GH, Eich W. Tesarz J. Front Psychiatry (Impact factor: 4.58). 2016. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Versus Treatment as Usual for Non-Specific Chronic Back Pain Patients with Psychological Trauma: A Randomized Controlled Pilot Study.

Schuster AK, Harder BC, Schlichtenbrede FC, Jarczok MN, Tesarz J. Cochrane Database Syst Rev (Impact factor: 6.222). 2016; 11:CD011503. Valacyclovir versus acyclovir for the treatment of herpes zoster ophthalmicus in immunocompetent patients. 

Tesarz J, Gerhardt A, Leisner S, Janke S, Treede RD, Eich W. Pain (Impact factor: 5.213). 2015;156(4):577-86. Distinct quantitative sensory testing profiles in nonspecific chronic back pain.