Dr. Cole graduated from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and completed his residency in orthopedics at the Hospital for Special Surgery at the Cornell Medical Center in New York. He also undertook a fellowship in sports medicine at the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh.
At the Rush Cartilage Restoration Center within Rush Medical Center, Dr. Cole works on synthesizing current research to develop treatments for cartilage problems. He developed the Rush Cartilage Restoration Center program to “take care of patients who were relatively active and otherwise healthy and who were often told that they had no other solution to their problem besides a knee replacement,” according to an interview with Body1 online health network.
Dr. Cole has authored and edited several hundred peer-reviewed publications, including acclaimed textbooks on arthroscopy, sports medicine and cartilage transplantation. He is especially interested in arthroscopic reconstruction of athlete’s shoulder (rotator cuff, instability and arthritis), elbow and knee and is the principle investigator for numerous FDA clinical trials. He also lectures nationally on the techniques of shoulder arthroscopy and serves on the board of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons.
