Dr. Brian Cole | Orthopedic & Sports Medicine Surgeon Chicago, IL

Brian J. Cole, MD, MBA

Renowned specialist for treatment of the shoulder, elbow and knee
   □ Sports medicine
   □ Therapeutic biologics and alternatives to joint replacement
   □ Non-surgical and surgical
Vice-Chairman and Managing Partner of Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush
   □ Professor of Orthopaedics, Anatomy and Cell Biology at Rush University
        Medical Center
   □ Chairman of Surgery at Rush Oak Park Hospital
   □ Head of world’s most active Cartilage Restoration Research Center
Selected by his peers as
   □ "Top Doctor"
   □ "NBA Team Physician of the Year"
   □ A top shoulder, elbow, knee and sports medicine specialist
Team physician for the Chicago Bulls, White Sox, Chicago Fire, Chicago Dogs, and DePaul University
Co-host of Sports Medicine Weekly on 670TheScore Chicago Sports Radio

Renowned specialist for treatment of the shoulder, elbow and knee
   □ Sports medicine
   □ Therapeutic biologics and alternatives to joint replacement
   □ Non-surgical and surgical
Vice-Chairman and Managing Partner of Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush
   □ Professor of Orthopaedics, Anatomy and Cell Biology at Rush University
        Medical Center
   □ Chairman of Surgery at Rush Oak Park Hospital
   □ Head of world’s most active Cartilage Restoration Research Center
Selected by his peers as
   □ "Top Doctor"
   □ "NBA Team Physician of the Year"
   □ A top shoulder, elbow, knee and sports medicine specialist
Team physician for the Chicago Bulls, White Sox, Chicago Fire, Chicago Dogs, and DePaul University
Co-host of Sports Medicine Weekly on 670TheScore Chicago Sports Radio

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Dr. Cole chosen as "Top Doctor" and one of "America's Best Physicians" in 2019

Meet Dr. Cole

Dr. Brian Cole is an orthopedic sports medicine surgeon at Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush and a Professor of Orthopaedics, Anatomy and Cell Biology at Rush University Medical Center. Dr. Cole is Managing Partner of Midwest Orthopaedics and is the Department's Associate Chairman and the Section Head of the Cartilage Research and Restoration Center. He is the Chairman of Surgery at Rush Oak Park Hospital and leads the Rush Orthopedic Master's Program. Dr. Cole’s research interests include cartilage restoration, therapeutic biologics and regenerative medicine, and minimally invasive surgical techniques for the treatment of the knee, elbow, and shoulder. Honors awarded to Dr. Cole range from the “Best Doctors in America” since 2004 and “Top Doctor” in Chicagoland since 2003. In 2006, he was featured on the cover of Chicago Magazine as “Chicago’s Top Doctor." In 2009, he was selected as NBA Team Physician of the Year and Orthopedics This Week has named Dr. Cole as one of the top 20 sports medicine, knee and shoulder specialists repeatedly over the last 5 years as selected by his peers.

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Dr. Cole chosen as "Top Doctor" and one of "America's Best Physicians" in 2019

Patient Stories

Nic Meister | April, 2019
Beginning in January of 2018 I began experiencing pain in the AC Joint of my left shoulder. I felt the pain the most when hitting forehands in tennis as well as performing activities with a straight arm. I first attempted to rehab my shoulder through two weeks of physical therapy, however when I returned to playing the pain was the same and began to get worse. As a result, I received an MRI and we...
Micah Christian Hurd | March, 2019

I am so thankful for the fantastic work Dr. Brian Cole has done over the past two years. I can't say enough about how lucky I am. After each of my last two injuries, Dr. Cole fixed and rebuilt my knee even stronger.
In fall 2017, I tore my ACL and LCL while playing football and underwent surgery with Dr. Cole to repair both ligaments. I had just finished the recovery process from this sur...
John E. McMahon | January, 2019
Please also make sure your team knows how grateful we are for the quality of care Jack received. He had an incredible year in football as the team’s leading tackler and picked up some nice interceptions along the way too. The team went 13-1 and took second in State and although we lost the championship game, Jack kicked a field goal on that right knee! Couldn’t have been possible without Team...
Taylor Newman | January, 2019
I came to Dr. Cole in desperate need of pain relief and better mobility of my knee due to a sports injury 10 years ago that left me without a lateral meniscus and after years of bone on bone, my cartilage wore off and left me with a 2cm hole. At the age of 25, I could barely walk a mile without my knee swelling, and causing me pain for the next few days afterward. I couldn’t walk up or down ...
David Tuttle | December, 2018
Dr. Cole operated on my rotator cuff after a first attempt by another surgeon in another location tried and was unable to do the repair. Dr. Cole was prepoared to use a donor patch but was able to do the repair without using it. He also suggested and i went along with using a stem cell preparation though it was not covered by insurance. My recovery has been phenominal and i am at 100% range of ...

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