Centennial, Colo.-based AlloSource awarded Brian Cole, MD, its inaugural 2017 Dr. Steven Gitelis Inspiration Award.
AlloSource provides cartilage, cellular, bone, skin and soft-tissue allografts for surgeries and wound care.
Here are five highlights:
1. The award recognizes physicians or clinicians that inspire AlloSource with their donated human allograft work.
2. Dr. Cole is a part of Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush in Chicago. He serves as an orthopedics professor and physician.
3. Dr. Cole utilizes allografts to help with patient healing following injuries.
4. Dr. Cole also serves as surgery chairman at Rush Oak Park (Ill.) Hospital.
5. Steven Gitelis, MD, is a founding physician of AlloSource. Throughout his career, Dr. Gitelis utilized donated human tissues in surgical procedures.