Dr. Peter Staats Chosen as the Outstanding Pain Physician of the Year - Asbury Park Press

Peter S. Staats, M.D., M.B.A., received the Outstanding Pain Physician Award at the 2012 Pain Medicine Symposium held on October 19th in Jersey City, New Jersey. Sponsored by the New York and New Jersey chapters of the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, the event honored Dr. Staats, who is internationally renowned for developing and implementing minimally invasive procedures to treat pain disorders.

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Dr. Gabor B. Racz, the Grover Murray Professor and Chairman Emeritus of the Department of Anesthesiology at the Pain Center at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, said of Dr. Staats, "I am most impressed with his quality as a person, as a physician and as a researcher. I would trust him to work on anybody I love and respect, including myself. He is a doctor's doctor."

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