Peter Kosek, M.D.
Education
Dr. Kosek graduated from Grinnell College in Iowa and received his MD from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine.
Affiliations
Sacred Heart General Hospital Pain Task Force
International Neuro-Modulation Society
American Academy of Pain Management
American Society of Anesthesiologists
Board Membership
Dr. Peter Kosek serves as a Board member of the Oregon Chapter of American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians.
Credentials
Peter Kosek, M.D., is a licensed physician in both California and Oregon and a Board Certified Anesthesiologist
Background
Dr. Kosek is one of the original members of the Oregon Pain Management Commission and has a pain management practice located in Eugene, Oregon
Peter Kosek, MD completed medical school at UCLA and residency at Stanford where he joined the faculty. He then moved to Oregon and served on the faculty at Oregon Health Sciences University before starting private practice in Eugene.
He is Board Certified in Anesthesiology and Pain Management. Appointed by the Governor of Oregon, he has served as a member of the Oregon Pain Management Commission of the Oregon Department of Health and Human Services since 1995.
He lectures and instructs courses on interventional pain management including spinal stimulation, spinal injections, spinal drug delivery and vertebroplasty for the American Society of Intervention al Pain Physicians. He is a Certified Principle Investigator through the Association of Clinical Research Professionals.
He has been involved in over 25 clinical trials of medication and device therapies for acute, chronic and cancer related pain, and is a Courtesy Professor at the University of Oregon in the Department of Human Physiology.
His goal in pain treatment is to have pain treated as seriously as any other medical condition, using compassion and science.
