Peter Staats Explained

Peter Sean Staats
Nationality:American
Occupation:Physician, Educator

Peter Sean Staats is an American physician, 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.[1] [2] [3] He is a past president of the North American Neuromodulation Society,[4] the New Jersey Society of Interventional Pain Medicine,the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (ASIPP) the World Institute of Pain (WIP), The Southern Pain Society.[5]

He is the author of over five hundred articles, abstracts and book chapters regarding pain management and neuromodulation. He has written or co-edited 14 books on the science and clinical practice of interventional pain medicine.[6] [7] [8] [9] He has written a broad theory of pain with Arthur Staats and Hamid Hekmat that unifies the biology with the psychologic aspects of pain.[10] [11] [12]

Early life and education

Staats is the son of Arthur W. Staats[13] and Carolyn K Staats.[14] Staats' father was a behavioral psychologist who invented Time Out for early child development[15] and was known for developing a field of psychology termed Psychological Behaviorism.[16] He attended Punahou School in Hawaii from first grade to 12th grade.

Staats attended the University of California at Santa Barbara and studied Physiologic psychology (neuroscience) and biological sciences.

Staats entered the University of Michigan medical school in 1985 and graduated in 1989. He was accepted for a one-year transitional program at the University of Hawaii (1989) and later in anesthesia and critical care medicine at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore[17] (1993). At the conclusion of his residency program at Johns Hopkins he did a fellowship in pain Medicine. He completed an MBA in Healthcare services at Johns Hopkins University Carey school of business in 2004.

Early career

After completion of a residency and fellowship in pain medicine he developed the Johns Hopkins division of pain medicine in the department of anesthesia and critical care. At age 30 was made division chief making him the youngest division chief at Johns Hopkisn school of medicine. He wrote Psychological Behaviorism theory of Pain with his father Arthur and Hamid Hekmat PhD.[18] This approach unified the biological with psychological perspectives in pain and served as a foundation for multidisciplinary and interventional pain used in many pain clinics today. Early research was on mechanisms of placebo effects and intrathecal therapy for cancer related pain.[19] Other research was on high dose topical capsaicin, creating the foundational patents for Qutenza patch.[20] He has trained numerous fellows residents and Medical students from Johns Hopkins University in interventional pain and placed a highlight on the lack of education on appropriate pain care. He developed an interventional pain track for Anesthesiology including implantation of neuromodulation[21] devices and was the first academic anesthesiologist to have surgical privileges at any academic university in the United States.

Leadership in academic societies

Industry

In 2004 he co-founded Premier Pain Centers and served as co managing partner until 2016 when it merged with National Spine and Pain Centers to become the largest integrated network of pain practices in the United States.[30] He has served as the chief medical officer between 2017 and 2023. He is also a Co Founder of electroCore in 2005, which has developed non invasive vagus nerve stimulation for a variety of indications. CE Mark in Europe includes treatment of Bronchoconstriction, Primary headache, gastrointestinal disorders, treatment of anxiety and seizure disorders. In the US, the FDA has granted six clearances in headache for acute treatment of episodic cluster, prevention of cluster headache, acute treatment of migraine, prevention of migraine, the treatment of adolescent migraine, the treatment of hemicrania continuua and the treatment of paroxysmal hemicrania. Emergency use application application for vagus nerve stimulation for treatment of COVID related respiratory distress was granted in 2020.[31] Breakthrough designation for PTSD from the FDA was granted in 2022.

Awards and honors

Further reading

Notes and References

  1. http://njmonthly.com/articles/topdoctors/lifting-the-shadow-of-pain.html Lifting the Shadow of Pain
  2. http://www.jhu.edu/jhumag/0600web/health.html#pain Ooo-la-la! Pain relief that's a fantasy
  3. https://books.google.com/books?id=3CFd-VjyzKoC&pg=PA220 Trends in Stem Cell Research
  4. http://www.neuromodulation.com/assets/documents/ins-newsletter-spring-2004_12.pdf Neuromodulation Newsletter
  5. Web site: List of Board Members . NJSIPP.org . 2014-03-13.
  6. https://abcnews.go.com/Health/PainManagement/story?id=5475061 In Pain? Your Favorite Food May Get You Through It
  7. 24446870 . 10.1111/ner.12146 . 17 . Best practices for intrathecal drug delivery for pain . Prager J, Deer T, Levy R, Bruel B, Buchser E, Caraway D, Cousins M, Jacobs M, McGlothlen G, Rauck R, Staats P, Stearns L . Neuromodulation . 2014 . 4 . 354–72; discussion 372. 25935175 .
  8. 14719720 . 21 . Spinal cord stimulation for angina pectoris and peripheral vascular disease . Erdek MA, Staats PS . Anesthesiol Clin North America . 2003 . 4 . 797–804 . 10.1016/s0889-8537(03)00090-7.
  9. 20495597 . 13 . Consensus guidelines for the selection and implantation of patients with noncancer pain for intrathecal drug delivery . Deer TR, Smith HS, Cousins M, Doleys DM, Levy RM, Rathmell JP, Staats PS, Wallace M, Webster LR . Pain Physician . 2010 . 3 . E175-213. 10.36076/ppj.2010/13/E175 . free .
  10. Staats, Peter S., Hamid Hekmat, and Arthur W. Staats. "The psychological behaviorism theory of pain: A basis for unity." Pain Forum. Vol. 5. No. 3. Churchill Livingstone, 1996.
  11. https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0071442197 Pain Medicine and Management: Just the Facts
  12. https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1437721435 Interventional Pain Management: Image-Guided Procedures
  13. Web site: Sherman . Mark . B.F. Skinner and the Hopelessness of It All . Psychology Today . 18 September 2020.
  14. Book: Wallace . Mark . Pain medicine and management : just the facts . 2 March 2015 . New York . 978-0071817455 . Second .
  15. Web site: Doctor who coined parenting term 'time out' dies at 97 . 4 June 2021 .
  16. News: Vander Schaaff . Sarah . The man who developed timeouts for kids stands by his now hotly-debated idea . . 18 September 2020.
  17. News: Schaaff . Sarah Vander . New drugs, decades in the making, are providing relief for migraines. . Washington Post . 18 September 2020.
  18. Staats . Peter S. . Hekmat . Hamid . Staats . Arthur W. . The psychological behaviorism theory of pain and the placebo: its principles and results of research application . Advances in Psychosomatic Medicine . 18 September 2020 . 28–40 . 10.1159/000079056 . 2004. 25 . 15248365 . 3-8055-7742-7 .
  19. Staats PS, Yearwood T, Charapata SG, Presley RW, Wallace MS, Byas-Smith M, Fisher R, Bryce DA, Mangieri EA, Luther RR, Mayo M, McGuire D, Ellis D . Intrathecal Ziconotide in the Treatment of Refractory Pain in Patients With Cancer or AIDS: A Randomized Controlled Trial . JAMA . 2004 . 291 . 1 . 63–70 . 10.1001/jama.291.1.63 . free . 14709577.
  20. Web site: Therapeutic method with capsaicin and capasicin analogs .
  21. Staats . Peter . Giannakopoulos . Georgios . Blake . Justyna . Liebler . Eric . Levy . Robert M. . The Use of Non-invasive Vagus Nerve Stimulation to Treat Respiratory Symptoms Associated With COVID-19: A Theoretical Hypothesis and Early Clinical Experience . Neuromodulation: Technology at the Neural Interface . 784–788 . en . 10.1111/ner.13172 . 2020. 23 . 6 . 32342609 . 7267613 . 216596414 .
  22. Staats PS, Stinson MS, Lee RR . Lumbar Stenosis Complicating Retained Epidural Catheter Tip . Anesthesiology . 1115–1118 . en . 10.1097/00000542-199511000-00027 . 1 November 1995. 83 . 5 . 7486164 . free .
  23. Web site: Past Presidents of NANS .
  24. Web site: CDC Offers New Guidelines for Prescribing Pain Medication Video . NJ Spotlight News . 18 September 2020.
  25. Book: Stogicza . Agnes . INTERVENTIONAL PAIN : a step-by-step guide for the fipp exam. . 2020 . SPRINGER NATURE . [Place of publication not identified] . 978-3030317409.
  26. Web site: National Spine & Pain Centers' Dr. Staats attends 2018 Pain Management Best Practices Inter-Agency Task Force Meeting .
  27. Web site: About WIP .
  28. Web site: About WIP .
  29. Web site: Leadership .
  30. Web site: Miller . Laura . 150 Pain Management Physicians to Know . www.beckersasc.com . 10 May 2012 . 18 September 2020.
  31. Web site: Pace . Elizabeth . Jacksonville doctor creates device to help COVID-19 patients . WJAX. 23 July 2020 .
  32. Web site: About the Southern Pain Society – About Us .
  33. Web site: 2018 ASIPP Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient, Dr. Peter Staats .
  34. https://nynjpainsymposium2022.com/gala-dinner-and-award-celebration/
  35. Web site: History of NANS Award Recipients .
  36. https://aspnpain.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/ASPN-PAIN-Agenda-2021.pdf
  37. Web site: The Legacy Lecture Series .
  38. Web site: Celebrate Pain Management Trailblazers at Our Budapest Conference! Peter Staats MD, FIPP . 23 July 2023 .

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