Peter Staats
{{Short description|American physician}}
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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.[http://njmonthly.com/articles/topdoctors/lifting-the-shadow-of-pain.html Lifting the Shadow of Pain], at New Jersey Monthly; by Wayne J. Guglielmo; published October 14, 2008; retrieved March 13, 2014[http://www.jhu.edu/jhumag/0600web/health.html#pain Ooo-la-la! Pain relief that's a fantasy] at Johns Hopkins Magazine by Melissa Hendricks, published June 2000; retrieved March 13, 2014[https://books.google.com/books?id=3CFd-VjyzKoC&pg=PA220 Trends in Stem Cell Research] Edited by Erik V. Greer, Published 2005 by Nova Publishers (via Google Books) He is a past president of the North American Neuromodulation Society,[http://www.neuromodulation.com/assets/documents/ins-newsletter-spring-2004_12.pdf Neuromodulation Newsletter] Published Spring 2004, retrieved March 13, 2014 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.{{cite web|url=http://njsipp.org/about.htm |title=List of Board Members |publisher=NJSIPP.org |date= |access-date=2014-03-13}}
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.[https://abcnews.go.com/Health/PainManagement/story?id=5475061 In Pain? Your Favorite Food May Get You Through It] at ABC News; by Radha Chitale; published August 1, 2008; retrieved March 13, 2014{{cite journal | pmid = 24446870 | doi=10.1111/ner.12146 | volume=17 | title=Best practices for intrathecal drug delivery for pain |vauthors=Prager J, Deer T, Levy R, Bruel B, Buchser E, Caraway D, Cousins M, Jacobs M, McGlothlen G, Rauck R, Staats P, Stearns L | journal=Neuromodulation | year=2014 | issue=4 | pages=354–72; discussion 372| s2cid=25935175 }}{{cite journal | pmid = 14719720 | volume=21 | title=Spinal cord stimulation for angina pectoris and peripheral vascular disease |vauthors=Erdek MA, Staats PS | journal=Anesthesiol Clin North America | year=2003 | issue=4 | pages=797–804 | doi=10.1016/s0889-8537(03)00090-7}}{{cite journal | pmid = 20495597 | volume=13 | title=Consensus guidelines for the selection and implantation of patients with noncancer pain for intrathecal drug delivery |vauthors=Deer TR, Smith HS, Cousins M, Doleys DM, Levy RM, Rathmell JP, Staats PS, Wallace M, Webster LR | journal=Pain Physician | year=2010 | issue=3 | pages=E175-213| doi=10.36076/ppj.2010/13/E175 | doi-access=free }} He has written a broad theory of pain with Arthur Staats and Hamid Hekmat that unifies the biology with the psychologic aspects of pain.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.[https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0071442197 Pain Medicine and Management: Just the Facts], by Mark S. Wallace and Peter Staats; Published 2005 by McGraw Hill Professional (via Google Books)[https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1437721435 Interventional Pain Management: Image-Guided Procedures] by P. Prithvi Raj, Leland Lou, Serdar Erdine, Peter S. Staats, Steven D. Waldman et al.; Published 2008 by Elsevier Health Sciences (via Google Books)
Early life and education
Staats is the son of Arthur W. Staats{{cite web |last1=Sherman |first1=Mark |title=B.F. Skinner and the Hopelessness of It All |url=https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/real-men-dont-write-blogs/201007/bf-skinner-and-the-hopelessness-it-all |website=Psychology Today |access-date=18 September 2020}} and Carolyn K Staats.{{cite book |last1=Wallace |first1=Mark |title=Pain medicine and management : just the facts |date=2 March 2015 |location=New York |isbn=978-0071817455 |edition=Second }} Staats' father was a behavioral psychologist who invented Time Out for early child development{{cite web | url=https://www.today.com/parents/doctor-who-coined-time-out-dies-97-t220873 | title=Doctor who coined parenting term 'time out' dies at 97 | date=4 June 2021 }} and was known for developing a field of psychology termed Psychological Behaviorism.{{cite news |last1=Vander Schaaff |first1=Sarah |title=The man who developed timeouts for kids stands by his now hotly-debated idea |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/the-man-who-developed-timeouts-for-kids-stands-by-his-now-hotly-debated-idea/2019/03/08/c169439e-3159-11e9-8ad3-9a5b113ecd3c_story.html |access-date=18 September 2020}} 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.{{citation needed|date=October 2020}}
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{{cite news |last1=Schaaff |first1=Sarah Vander |title=New drugs, decades in the making, are providing relief for migraines. |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/new-drugs-decades-in-the-making-are-providing-relief-for-migraines/2018/11/30/3b691176-e865-11e8-bbdb-72fdbf9d4fed_story.html |newspaper=Washington Post |access-date=18 September 2020}} (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.{{citation needed|date=October 2020}}
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.{{cite journal |last1=Staats |first1=Peter S. |last2=Hekmat |first2=Hamid |last3=Staats |first3=Arthur W. |title=The psychological behaviorism theory of pain and the placebo: its principles and results of research application |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15248365/ |journal=Advances in Psychosomatic Medicine |access-date=18 September 2020 |pages=28–40 |doi=10.1159/000079056 |date=2004|volume=25 |pmid=15248365 |isbn=3-8055-7742-7 }} 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.{{cite journal |vauthors=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 |title=Intrathecal Ziconotide in the Treatment of Refractory Pain in Patients With Cancer or AIDS: A Randomized Controlled Trial |journal=JAMA |date=2004 |volume=291 |issue=1 |pages=63–70 |doi=10.1001/jama.291.1.63 |doi-access=free |pmid=14709577}}
Other research was on high dose topical capsaicin, creating the foundational patents for Qutenza patch.{{cite web | url=https://patents.google.com/patent/US6248788B1/en | title=Therapeutic method with capsaicin and capasicin analogs }}
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{{cite journal |last1=Staats |first1=Peter |last2=Giannakopoulos |first2=Georgios |last3=Blake |first3=Justyna |last4=Liebler |first4=Eric |last5=Levy |first5=Robert M. |title=The Use of Non-invasive Vagus Nerve Stimulation to Treat Respiratory Symptoms Associated With COVID-19: A Theoretical Hypothesis and Early Clinical Experience |url= |journal=Neuromodulation: Technology at the Neural Interface |pages=784–788 |language=en |doi=10.1111/ner.13172 |date=2020|volume=23 |issue=6 |pmid=32342609 |pmc=7267613 |s2cid=216596414 }} devices and was the first academic anesthesiologist to have surgical privileges at any academic university in the United States.
=Leadership in academic societies=
- Founding chair:{{cite journal |vauthors=Staats PS, Stinson MS, Lee RR |title=Lumbar Stenosis Complicating Retained Epidural Catheter Tip |url=https://pubs.asahq.org/anesthesiology/article/83/5/1115/35188/Lumbar-Stenosis-Complicating-Retained-Epidural |journal=Anesthesiology |pages=1115–1118 |language=en |doi=10.1097/00000542-199511000-00027 |date=1 November 1995|volume=83 |issue=5 |pmid=7486164 |doi-access=free }} Interventional pain section American Society of Anesthesiologists 1996
- President Southern Pain Society 2002–2004
- President North American Neuromodulation Society 2002-2003{{cite web | url=https://www.neuromodulation.org/past-presidents.html | title=Past Presidents of NANS }}
- President NJ society of Interventional pain 2014–2015
- President American Society of Interventional Pain{{cite web |title=CDC Offers New Guidelines for Prescribing Pain Medication {{!}} Video |url=https://www.njspotlight.com/news/video/cdc-offers-new-guidelines-for-prescribing-pain-medication/ |website=NJ Spotlight News |access-date=18 September 2020}} 2015–2016
- Chair Board of Examination World Institute of Pain{{cite book |last1=Stogicza |first1=Agnes |title=INTERVENTIONAL PAIN : a step-by-step guide for the fipp exam. |date=2020 |publisher=SPRINGER NATURE |location=[Place of publication not identified] |isbn=978-3030317409}} 2015–2019
- Health and Human Services United States Government Subcommittee one alternatives to opioid therapy, pain task force June 18, 2018 -June 2019{{cite web | url=https://www.treatingpain.com/news-updates/2018/october/national-spine-pain-centers-dr-staats-attends-20/ | title=National Spine & Pain Centers' Dr. Staats attends 2018 Pain Management Best Practices Inter-Agency Task Force Meeting }}
- President elect World Institute of Pain 2019-2020{{cite web | url=https://www.worldinstituteofpain.org/about-wip/ | title=About WIP }}
- President World Institute of Pain 2020–2023{{cite web | url=https://www.worldinstituteofpain.org/about-wip/ | title=About WIP }}
- Founder and Chair Vagus Nerve Society 2022–present{{cite web | url=https://www.vnsociety.org/leadership/ | title=Leadership }}
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.{{cite web |last1=Miller |first1=Laura |title=150 Pain Management Physicians to Know |url=https://www.beckersasc.com/lists/150-pain-management-physicians-to-know.html |website=www.beckersasc.com |date=10 May 2012 |access-date=18 September 2020}} 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.{{cite web |last1=Pace |first1=Elizabeth |title=Jacksonville doctor creates device to help COVID-19 patients |url=https://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/local/duval-county/jacksonville-doctor-creates-device-help-covid-19-patients/VFA5TP74VRCKLKLDK65VEZVHCU/ |website=WJAX|date=23 July 2020 }} Breakthrough designation for PTSD from the FDA was granted in 2022.
Awards and honors
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- Recipient of “President's Distinguished Service Award,” Southern Pain Society, March 2000
- Hugh and Renee Rosomoff Award for Rxcellence in Pain Management 2004{{cite web | url=https://southernpainsociety.org/about-pain-management-society/ | title=About the Southern Pain Society – About Us }}
- Named in America's Top Doctors, May 2001 - 2019
- Named Outstanding Pain Physician of the Year by New York and New Jersey Chapters of the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, October 2012.
- Recipient of “Clinical Excellence Award”, Pain 2013 Conference, presented by the West Virginia Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, July 2013
- Recipient ASIPP Raj Award for Excellence ( ASIPP annual meeting 2017)
- Lifetime Achievement award American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (ASIPP) March 2018 {{cite web | url=https://www.treatingpain.com/news-updates/2018/september/2018-asipp-lifetime-achievement-award-recipient-/#:~:text=Peter%20Staats,-Category%3A%20News%20%26%20Events&text=National%20Spine%20%26%20Pain%20Centers%27%20Chief,Orlando%20World%20Center%20in%20Florida | title=2018 ASIPP Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient, Dr. Peter Staats }}
- Lifetime Achievement Award West Virginia Society of interventional pain, American society of pain and neuroscience June 1, 2018
- Lifetime Achievement Award New York and New Jersey Societies of Interventional Pain November 2018https://nynjpainsymposium2022.com/gala-dinner-and-award-celebration/
- Lifetime Achievement Award North American Neuromodulation Society Las Vegas (Jan 2019){{cite web | url=https://www.neuromodulation.org/award-history.html | title=History of NANS Award Recipients }}
- Lifetime Achievement Award American Society of Pain and Neuroscience (2021) https://aspnpain.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/ASPN-PAIN-Agenda-2021.pdf
- Legacy Award The 30th Annual Napa Pain Conference ( Aug 2023){{cite web | url=https://napapainconference.com/the-legacy-lecture-series/ | title=The Legacy Lecture Series }}
- Trailblazer award The World institute of Pain (Sept 2023){{cite web | url=https://www.worldinstituteofpain.org/2023/07/23/pain-management-trailblazer-budapest-conference-peter-staats-md-fipp/ | title=Celebrate Pain Management Trailblazers at Our Budapest Conference! Peter Staats MD, FIPP | date=23 July 2023 }}
Further reading
- {{cite book|author1=Sudhir Diwan|author2=Peter Staats|title=Atlas of Pain Medicine Procedures|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xvl8MAEACAAJ&q=diwan+staats|date=January 2015|publisher=McGraw Hill|isbn=978-0-07-173876-7}}
- {{cite book|author1=Peter Staats|author2=Mark Wallace|title=Pain Medicine and Management: Just the Facts|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YJWKoAEACAAJ&q=staats+wallace+just+the+facts|date=March 2015|publisher=McGraw Hill|isbn=9780071817455}}
- {{cite book|author1=Peter Staats|author2=Sanford Silverstein|title=Controlled Substance Management in Chronic Pain: A Balanced Approach|date=May 2016|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-3319309620}}