Nationality American Occupation Physician, Educator | Name Peter Staats | |
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Education University of California Santa Barbara
University of Michigan Medical School
Johns Hopkins University | ||
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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 currently President of the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, and Chair, board of examinations World Institute of Pain. He remains affiliated with Johns Hopkins University and is an adjunct faculty in the department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, and a clinical physician in private practice in New Jersey.
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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 and “the state society award” from ASIPP. He is the author of over two hundred and seventy five articles, abstracts and book chapters regarding pain management and neuromodulation. He has written or co-edited 9 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 has co-authored or co-edited several books on the subject. He is the co-inventor of the capsaicin high-dose dermal patch (trade name Qutenza) used to relieve the pain of peripheral neuropathy.