Biography

Steven P. Stanos, DO currently serves as Executive Medical Director of Rehabilitation and Performance Medicine (RPM) for Providence Swedish Health System in Seattle, WA. In addition to this executive medical role, Dr. Stanos serves as the Medical Director of Providence Swedish Pain Medicine and Services. At Providence Swedish, he leads the sports medicine, medical spine, pain medicine, and bone health service lines as well as medical director of the system's comprehensive pain center, Swedish Pain Services. The center provides a wide range of multi modal pain services including interventional pain management, medical management, addiction treatment, and comprehensive interdisciplinary pain care. As director of RPM, he helps to lead a portfolio of sports medicine partnerships including Seattle University Athletics, the Seattle Storm of the WNBA, and the MLS Seattle Sounders, FC. He is board certified in physical medicine and rehabilitation and pain medicine by the American Board of Pain Medicine and by the American Board of Anesthesia. Dr. Stanos is a Past President of the American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM). A Mayday Foundation Advocacy fellow in 2013, his advocacy continues to focus on increasing awareness and access for interdisciplinary biopsychosocially-based pain care for patients suffering with chronic pain. In 2022, AAPM awarded Steven with the Philipp Lippe MD Award for contributions to social and political aspects of pain medicine. Steven has appeared on CNN, National Public Radio, Fox News, regional print and television news on topics related to pain medicine and rehabilitation.

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