Peter Sean Staats is an American physician, educator, author, inventor and clinical researcher, specializing in interventional pain medicine. He is the founder of the Division of Pain Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and was the Division's chief for nearly a decade. He is also a past president of the North American Neuromodulation Society. As of 2013, he is the past president of the New Jersey Society of Interventional Pain Medicine. He is the past president of the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, past president of the Southern Pain Society, and Chair, board of examinations World Institute of Pain. He is the founder and chief executive of Positive Outcomes Worldwide, a non-profit dedicated to improving pain care worldwide. He was the co-founder of electroCore and served on the board of directors from 2005-2018. He currently serves as electroCore's Chief Medical Officer. In addition, Dr. Staats serves as the Chief Medical Officer of National Spine & Pain Centers, the largest pain practice in the United States.
Attended High School at Punahou high school 1977-1981, University of California Santa Barbara 1981-1985, University of Michigan Medical School 1985-1989, Johns Hopkins University Residency Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine 1990-1993, Fellowship in Pain Management 1992-1994. MBA Johns Hopkins University 2004.
He has won numerous awards, from local to national and international, including New Jersey Top Doctor since 2007 through present and Americas Top Doctor since 2001 and has received the physician of the year award from NY, NJ and West Virginia pain societies and the presidents distinguished service award from the Southern Pain Society, "the state society award" from ASIPP, and the Raj Excellence Award. In 2018 he received a lifetime achievement award from ASIPP.
He is the author of over three hundred articles, abstracts and book chapters regarding pain management and neuromodulation. He has written or co-edited 10 books on the science and clinical practice of interventional pain medicine. He has written a broad theory of pain with Arthur Staats PhD and Hamid Hekmat PhD that unifies the biology with the psychologic aspects of pain. He was the co-principle investigator in the largest randomized intrathecal therpy to maximal medical management in patients with cancer pain. he was also the principle investigator on the use of a novel intrathecal agent for managing refractory pain due to cancer and AIDS. He is the co-inventor of the capsaicin high-dose dermal patch (trade name Qutenza) used to relieve the pain of peripheral neuropathy.
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Further reading
- Sudhir Diwan; Peter Staats (January 2015). Atlas of Pain Medicine Procedures. McGraw Hill. ISBN 978-0-07-173876-7.
- Peter Staats; Mark Wallace (March 2015). Pain Medicine and Management: Just the Facts. McGraw Hill. ISBN 9780071817455.
- Peter Staats; Sanford Silverstein (May 2016). Controlled Substance Management in Chronic Pain: A Balanced Approach. Springer. ISBN 978-3319309620.
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