ElectroCore LLC Appoints Peter Staats as Chief Medical Officer
June 20, 2017
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electroCore LLC announced the appointment of Peter Staats as Chief Medical Officer. Dr. Staats brings with him more than 25 years experience in the medical field focused in the area of pain management and has an international reputation for successfully developing and implementing minimally invasive procedures for chronic pain and neuromodulation. The appointment of Dr. Staats to CMO, which was unanimously approved by the company’s Board, is part of electroCore’s evolution and furthers the momentum toward future growth. Dr. Staats will be responsible for leading electroCore’s global medical and scientific efforts, focused on the development of non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation for the treatment of primary headaches (cluster headache and migraine) and other conditions in neurology, immunology and endocrinology. He will join electroCore’s management team, reporting to Francis R. Amato, the company’s Chief Executive Officer. Dr. Staats was the founder of the division of Pain Medicine in the Department of Anesthesia at Johns Hopkins University and a founding partner in the Premier Pain Centers in New Jersey. He has served as the past President for several societies, including American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, North American Neuromodulation Society, New Jersey Society of Interventional Pain Physicians and the Southern Pain Society, and has co-edited or authored 10 textbooks on pain medicine and written nearly three hundred articles, book chapters and abstracts on the diagnosis and management of complex pain problems, appearing in publications such as JAMA, Lancet, and Pain Medicine.
electroCore, Inc. is a commercial stage bioelectronic medicine and wellness company. It provides non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation (nVNS) technology platform. The Companyâs product categories include Handheld, personal use medical devices for the management and treatment of certain medical conditions such as primary headache, and Handheld, personal use consumer products utilizing nVNS technology to promote general wellness and human performance. Its products include gammaCore, Truvaga and TAC-STIM. Its gammaCore Sapphire, is a prescription medical device that is used for a variety of primary headache conditions. Its Truvaga is a personal use consumer electronics general wellness product that does not require a prescription and is available direct-to-consumer from electroCore at www.truvaga.com. The Companyâs TAC-STIM product is not a medical device and is not intended to diagnose, cure, mitigate, prevent, or treat a disease or condition.