Ursula Werneke

Ursula Werneke, MD, MSc, FRCPsych

Dr Werneke is a Consultant Psychiatrist and Associate Professor in Psychiatry at Sunderby Hospital Luelå and Umeå University in Northern Sweden right beneath the Arctic Circle.

She earned her baseline medical degree in Düsseldorf, Germany, and obtained thereafter a research fellowship for studies on diabetes with the University of La Plata, Argentina. She went on to study Health Services Management at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and then assisted Germany in developing and implementing their national breast cancer screening programme.

She then returned to London to train psychiatry and liaison psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital in London, UK, after which she was Consultant Psychiatrist at East London and Honorary Consultant at the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital before she took up her present position in Sweden.  Dr Werneke's main interests are lifestyle, nutrition, clinical pharmacology and complementary medicine, and her work in these areas has gained broad international attention. Dr Werneke is a biographee of Marquis Who’s Who in the World.