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Peter Staats MD MBA

Interventional Pain Physician, Scientist, Inventor, and Author

Dr. Staats was the founder of the division of Pain Medicine in the Department of Anesthesia at Johns Hopkins University, where he was the director for over a decade. He maintains a joint appointment in the Departments of Anesthesiology and Critical Care and Oncology. In 2003 he became a founding partner in Premier Pain Centers in New Jersey where he currently practices interventional pain management.
He is boarded by the American Society of Anesthesiology, the Academy of Pain Medicine, the American Board of Interventional Pain Physicians (ABIPP) and the World Institute of Pain (FIPP) and has received fellowship status from both the World Institute of Pain and the North American Neuromodulation Society. He has edited or authored 9 textbooks on pain medicine and written nearly three hundred articles, book chapters and abstracts on the diagnosis and management of complex pain problems. His publications have appeared in prominent journals including JAMA, Lancet, Anesthesiology, Pain Medicine and others.
He is listed in Americas Top Doctors, New Jersey Top Doctors and Best Doctors in America. He is the Past President of ASIPP, (The American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians), and the North American Neuromodulation Society (NANS). He is currently chairman of the Board of Examination World Institute of Pain and on the Executive Board of the World Institute of Pain. He is also the recipient of the President’s Distinguished Service Award and the Excellence in Pain Management Award from the Southern Pain Society, as well as the Physician of the Year Award from both the West Virginia Society of Interventional Pain and the New York and New Jersey Societies of Interventional Pain and has received distinguished service awards from AAPM, ASIPP, NANS and NJSIPP.
He is the recipient or co-recipient of numerous grants on the multiple facets of pain management from the NIH, as well as industry. His research in cancer pain demonstrated how good pain management could lessen side effects and improve life expectancy. As a co-principle investigator he completed the largest trial ever performed on intrathecal pumps versus medical management, and the first large scale trial on a novel intrathecal agent for pain. His patents and research have led to novel approaches and FDA approvals in pain management including novel pharmaceuticals and medical devices (Qutenza, Prialt and Gammacore). His research on pain, mechanisms of placebo response, theories of pain and interventional therapies and intrathecal Ziconotide have been highlighted on Good Morning America, Peter Jennings World News Tonight, CBS News and multiple newspapers including USA Today, the Washington Post.

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