CURRICULUM VITAE

PETER KOSEK, MD

 

PERSONAL

 

            Pain Consultants of Oregon, PC                                               

            360 S. Garden Way, Suite 101, Eugene, OR 97401                  

            Phone: (541) 684-9451

Fax:     (541) 684-9566

 

            Place of Birth: Stanford, CA

 

EMPLOYMENT

 

1998-Present

Partner, 100% Pain Management Practice with Joseph Dunn, MD. Pain Consultants of Oregon, PC

1997-1998

Staff Anesthesiologist, Pain Management Physician

50% Pain Management practice including evaluation, management and interventional therapies.  Developed consultative and interventional pain services for the Anesthesia Service.

Member of Sacred Heart General Hospital Pain Task Force.

Anesthesia Service of Eugene, PC

1994-1997

Assistant Clinical Professor of Anesthesia

Cardiac, neuro, obstetric, pediatric and general anesthesia

Voluntary clinical faculty 1994-2002

Oregon Health Sciences University

1993-1992

Assistant Clinical Professor of Anesthesia

Cardiac, neuro, obstetric, pediatric and general anesthesia

Voluntary clinical faculty 1994-2002

Stanford University Medical Center

 

 

           

           

 

CLINICAL RESEARCH

 

Completed 1999

Institutional Review Board approval for ‘A Study of the Algomed Infusion System (PAR) for the Intrathecal Delivery of Morphine Sulfate as Management of Pain Due to Cancer and Its Therapies.’ Principal investigator at this site.   

 

Completed 1999

Institutional Review Board approval for ‘Clinical Protocol for a double-blind randomized; placebo- and active-controlled single dose active-controlled multiple dose study of the analgesic activity of intravenously administered SC-69124A 20mg, SC-69124A 40mg, katabolic 30mg, and morphine 4mg, in post general surgery patients, IND #52,613.  Co-investigator at this site. 

 

Completed 2001

Institutional Review Board approval for ‘A randomized controlled trial for spinal morphine therapy in cancer pain.’  Principal Investigator at this site of a multinational trial of spinal morphine to treat cancer pain unrelieved with systemic narcotics. 

 

Completed 2002

Institutional Review Board approval for ‘A retrospective evaluation of physician implant technique and catheter complications.  Principal investigator at this site, three sites total. 

 

Completed 2003

Institutional Review Board approval for ‘A study of the synchromed patient activator system for patient controlled spinal narcotic therapy.’ Principal investigator at this site of a 6-site trial. 

 

Started July 2002

Institutional Review Board approval for  ‘A double blind placebo controlled trial of intrathecal Ziconotide in the treatment of chronic pain.’  Principal investigator at this site of 40 site trial.

 

Pending start date

Institutional Review Board approval for ‘An Open-Label, Multicenter Study of the Safety and Efficacy of Combined Intrathecal Infumorph and Ziconotide (Prialt): Addition of Prialt in Patients Receiving Infumorph for Severe Chronic Pain. Primary Investigator at this site.

 

INTERNSHIP

 

1988–1989      Pacific Presbyterian Medical Center  San Francisco, CA

Internal Medicine

 

RESIDENCY

 

1989–1992      Stanford University Stanford, CA Anesthesiology

Six months of research related to mechanisms of pain and anesthesia.

 

 

CERTIFICATIONS

           

California Medical License

Oregon Medical License

DEA License

Diplomat of the American Board of Pain Medicine

Diplomat of the American Board of Anesthesiology

Diplomat of the American Board of Anesthesiology Added Qualifications in Pain Management 1998.

Diplomat of the National Board of Medical Examiners

 

COMMITTEES

 

 

Quality Assurance Committee, Stanford University

1992-1993

Pharmacy and Therapeutics, Sacred Heart Medical Center

 

2000-present

Health Resources Commission Subcommittee on Narcotics for Non-Cancer Pain, Oregon  2002 Evidence based literature review for the Oregon Department of Human Services

 

(work completed)

Physician member, Pain Management Commission Steering Committee, Oregon Department of Human Services

 

2002-present

Lane Independent Physician Association (LIPA) Difficult patient committee

2000-present

 

 

SOCIETIES

 

American Society of Anesthesiologists

Oregon Society of Anesthesiologists

Oregon Medical Association

Lane County Medical Association

American Pain Society

Pain Society of Oregon (member of founding board)

American Medical Association

International Spinal Injection Society

 

           

EDUCATION

 

1988    MD from University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine

1984    BA with honors from Grinnell College, Grinnell IA.  Majors in Chemistry and Mathematics

             

             

 

AWARDS

 

Outstanding Anesthesia Faculty, Stanford

 

1992-1993

Outstanding Anesthesia Resident, Stanford

 

1991-1992

‘Class Act’ teaching award, Oregon Health Sciences University

1994-1995

 

 

MEDICAL VOLUNTEER

 

Rural clinic physician volunteer, Banepa, Nepal.

 

1988

Interplast anesthesiologist volunteer, Mexacale, Mexico.

 

1993

American Association for Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery anesthesiologist volunteer, Enkatarienberg, Russia.

1994

 

PUBLICATIONS AND REFERENCES

 

 

Rauck, R.L., Cherry, D., Boyer, M.F., Kosek, P., Dunn, J, Alo, K.., Long-term intrathecal opioid therapy with a patient-activated, implanted delivery system for the treatment of refractory cancer pain. J Pain, 2003. 4(8): p. 441-7.

Kosek, P;Mody, I;MacIver, MB;Tanelian, D.  Differential GABAergic involvement in the action of three volatile anesthetics synaptic responses.  Anesthesiology, 1992 Sep, 77(3A):A797.

Tanelian DL;Kosek PS;Mody I;MacIver B.  The role of the GABA(A) receptor / chloride channel complex in anesthesia.  Anesthesiology, 1993 April, 78(4):757-76.

Jaffe RA;Samules SI, Eds.  Anesthesiologist’s Manual of Surgical Procedures.  Raven Press, New York 1994.  Chapter:  Anesthesia for surgery of the lower extremities.

Olson KA, Kosek P, Isaacson W, Bedder MD, Kallgren MA.  The assessment of suicide probability in the pain patient:  A normative study.  Abstract, Eighth world congress on pain, Vancouver, BC, August 17-22, 1996.

Erythromelalgia pain managed with gabapentin.  McGraw T, Kosek P. Anesthesiology. 1997 Apr;86(4):988-90.
PMID: 9105243

Preoperative anxiety and fear: a comparison of assessments by patients and anesthesia and surgery residents.  Shafer A, Fish MP, Gregg KM, Seavello J, Kosek P. Anesth Analg. 1996 Dec;83(6):1285-91.
PMID: 8942601

The effect of cimetidine and ranitidine on the duration of action of succinylcholine.  Woodworth GE, Sears DH, Grove TM, Ruff RH, Kosek PS, Katz RL. Anesth Analg. 1989 Mar;68(3):295-7.
PMID: 2919769