Peter Staats

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]

Peter Sean Staats
Nationality	American
Education	University of California Santa Barbara University of Michigan Medical School Johns Hopkins University
Occupation(s)	Physician, Educator

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.^{[citation needed]}

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.^{[citation needed]}

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

• Founding chair:^[22] Interventional pain section American Society of Anesthesiologists 1996
• President Southern Pain Society 2002-2004
• President North American Neuromodulation Society 2002-2003^[23]
• President NJ society of Interventional pain 2014-2015
• President American Society of Interventional Pain^[24] 2015-2016
• Chair Board of Examination World Institute of Pain^[25] 2015-2019
• Health and Human Services United States Government Subcommittee one alternatives to opioid therapy, pain task force June 18, 2018 -June 2019
• President elect World Institute of Pain 2019-2020
• President World Institute of Pain 2020–2023
• Founder and Chair Vagus Nerve Society 2022-present^[26]

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.^[27] He has served as the chief medical officer since 2017. 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.^[28]Breakthrough designation for PTSD from the FDA was granted in 2022.

Awards and honors

• Recipient of “President's Distinguished Service Award,” Southern Pain Society, March 2000
• Hugh and Renee Rosomoff Award for Rxcellence in Pain Management 2004^[29]
• 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 ^[30]
• 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 2018^[31]
• Lifetime Achievement Award North American Neuromodulation Society Las Vegas (Jan 2019)^[32]
• Lifetime Achievement Award American Society of Pain and Neuroscience (2021) ^[33]
• Legacy Award The 30th Annual Napa Pain Conference ( Aug 2023)^[34]
• Trailblazer award The World institute of Pain (Sept 2023)^[35]

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.
• Stogiza, Mansano, Trescot Staats Interventional Pain: A step by step guide for the FIPP exam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-3030317409
• Erdine S Staats PS Complications of Pain Relieving Procedures: An Illustrated guide 2022

References

1. Lifting the Shadow of Pain, at New Jersey Monthly; by Wayne J. Guglielmo; published October 14, 2008; retrieved March 13, 2014
2. Ooo-la-la! Pain relief that's a fantasy at Johns Hopkins Magazine by Melissa Hendricks, published June 2000; retrieved March 13, 2014
3. Trends in Stem Cell Research Edited by Erik V. Greer, Published 2005 by Nova Publishers (via Google Books)
4. Neuromodulation Newsletter Published Spring 2004, retrieved March 13, 2014
5. "List of Board Members". NJSIPP.org. Retrieved 2014-03-13.
6. In Pain? Your Favorite Food May Get You Through It at ABC News; by Radha Chitale; published August 1, 2008; retrieved March 13, 2014
7. Prager J, Deer T, Levy R, Bruel B, Buchser E, Caraway D, Cousins M, Jacobs M, McGlothlen G, Rauck R, Staats P, Stearns L (2014). "Best practices for intrathecal drug delivery for pain". Neuromodulation. 17 (4): 354–72, discussion 372. doi:10.1111/ner.12146. PMID 24446870. S2CID 25935175.
8. Erdek MA, Staats PS (2003). "Spinal cord stimulation for angina pectoris and peripheral vascular disease". Anesthesiol Clin North America. 21 (4): 797–804. doi:10.1016/s0889-8537(03)00090-7. PMID 14719720.
9. Deer TR, Smith HS, Cousins M, Doleys DM, Levy RM, Rathmell JP, Staats PS, Wallace M, Webster LR (2010). "Consensus guidelines for the selection and implantation of patients with noncancer pain for intrathecal drug delivery". Pain Physician. 13 (3): E175-213. doi:10.36076/ppj.2010/13/E175. PMID 20495597.
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. Pain Medicine and Management: Just the Facts, by Mark S. Wallace and Peter Staats; Published 2005 by McGraw Hill Professional (via Google Books)
12. 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)
13. Sherman, Mark. "B.F. Skinner and the Hopelessness of It All". Psychology Today. Retrieved 18 September 2020.
14. Wallace, Mark. Pain medicine and management : just the facts (Second ed.). New York. ISBN 007181745X.
15. https://www.today.com/parents/doctor-who-coined-time-out-dies-97-t220873
16. Vander Schaaff, Sarah. "The man who developed timeouts for kids stands by his now hotly-debated idea". The Washington Post. Retrieved 18 September 2020.
17. Schaaff, Sarah Vander. "New drugs, decades in the making, are providing relief for migraines". Washington Post. Retrieved 18 September 2020.
18. Staats, Peter S.; Hekmat, Hamid; Staats, Arthur W. (2004). "The psychological behaviorism theory of pain and the placebo: its principles and results of research application". Advances in Psychosomatic Medicine. 25: 28–40. doi:10.1159/000079056. ISBN 3-8055-7742-7. PMID 15248365. Retrieved 18 September 2020.
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 (2004). "Intrathecal Ziconotide in the Treatment of Refractory Pain in Patients With Cancer or AIDS: A Randomized Controlled Trial". JAMA. 291 (1): 63–70. doi:10.1001/jama.291.1.63. PMID 14709577.
20. https://patents.google.com/patent/US6248788B1/en
21. Staats, Peter; Giannakopoulos, Georgios; Blake, Justyna; Liebler, Eric; Levy, Robert M. (2020). "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. 23 (6): 784–788. doi:10.1111/ner.13172. PMC 7267613. PMID 32342609. S2CID 216596414.
22. Staats PS, Stinson MS, Lee RR (1 November 1995). "Lumbar Stenosis Complicating Retained Epidural Catheter Tip". Anesthesiology. 83 (5): 1115–1118. doi:10.1097/00000542-199511000-00027. PMID 7486164.
23. https://www.neuromodulation.org/past-presidents.html
24. "CDC Offers New Guidelines for Prescribing Pain Medication | Video". NJ Spotlight News. Retrieved 18 September 2020.
25. Stogicza, Agnes (2020). INTERVENTIONAL PAIN : a step-by-step guide for the fipp exam. [Place of publication not identified]: SPRINGER NATURE. ISBN 978-3030317409.
26. https://www.vnsociety.org/leadership/
27. Miller, Laura. "150 Pain Management Physicians to Know". www.beckersasc.com. Retrieved 18 September 2020.
28. Pace, Elizabeth (23 July 2020). "Jacksonville doctor creates device to help COVID-19 patients". WJAX.
29. https://southernpainsociety.org/about-pain-management-society/
30. 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'%20Chief,Orlando%20World%20Center%20in%20Florida.
31. https://nynjpainsymposium2022.com/gala-dinner-and-award-celebration/
32. https://www.neuromodulation.org/award-history.html
33. https://aspnpain.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/ASPN-PAIN-Agenda-2021.pdf
34. https://napapainconference.com/the-legacy-lecture-series/
35. https://www.worldinstituteofpain.org/2023/07/23/pain-management-trailblazer-budapest-conference-peter-staats-md-fipp/