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Dr. Peter Alexander Cole, MD

Orthopaedic Trauma, Orthopedic Surgery
Accepting new patients
35 years of experience
The Burn Center At Regions Hospital 640 Jackson St # C5400, St. Paul, MN 55101
(651) 254-0056

Overview
Location
Expertise
Insurance

Brief Intro

Though born in Havre de Grace, Maryland on the Chesapeake Bay, Dr. Cole originally comes from a small New England town outside of Boston, but moved when he was ten to Caracas, Venezuela with his family where he spent almost four years developing a love for the Latin culture and a fluency in Spanish. The family moved to Lighthouse Point, Florida, where he spent his High School years and which has been a family home base for many years. The other lasting home base and his emotional favorite is Cape Cod, Massachusetts to where all the Coles escape annually. He received his undergraduate degree from Emory University in Atlanta, before taking a two year research fellowship position at Washington University in Saint Louis, the city from which his lovely wife Nancy hails. After this influential period in an elite diabetes and vascular research laboratory, he moved back to South Florida to attend the University of Miami School of Medicine. He subsequently fulfilled his internship and residency at Brown University in Providence before two sequential fellowships in Orthopaedic Traumatology at Brown University-Rhode Island hospital and then at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, Washington. He took his first academic position at the University of Mississippi School of Medicine in Jackson, where he began to develop new techniques for complex orthopaedic pathology, as well as a profound sense of responsibility to indigent care and missions. He was recruited by the University of Minnesota Department Chair in 2002 to build an orthopaedic trauma division for the Regions Hospital Level I Trauma Center in Saint Paul. Within a few years, HealthPartners wanted to help grow, under his leadership and collaboration with the University, a full service line orthopaedic department which has become one of the most influential Orthopaedic practices in the Twin Cities. As a full time Professor, of the University of Minnesota, practicing out of Regions Hospital, Dr. Cole has developed a worldwide reputation as an educator and researcher on advanced trauma topics including surgery of complex joint injuries, bone malunions, pelvic ring injuries. He is a leading expert in minimally invasive fracture care and complex shoulder girdle injury, and has the largest experience on record for the treatment of scapula fractures. Underlying these clinical, administrative, and investigative accomplishments is a passion for creative problem solving and an undying desire for the betterment of medicine for The Patient. Dr. Cole and his wife Nancy founded and operate a medical ministry in the Peruvian Amazon called Scalpel At The Cross. www.scalpelatthecross.org

Education Background

MEDICAL SCHOOL

University Of Miami Leonard M Miller School Of Medicine - 1990

Languages Spoken

English
Spanish

Location & Hours

The Burn Center At Regions Hospital
640 Jackson St # C5400, St. Paul, MN 55101
Mon:8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tue:8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Wed:8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Thu:8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Fri:8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Sat:Closed
Sun:Closed

Specialties Treated

Orthopedic Surgery
Orthopaedic Trauma

Procedures Performed

Shoulder Surgery
Hip/Femur Fractures and Dislocations
Lower Leg/Ankle Fractures and Dislocations
Hip/Femur Fractures and Dislocations
Occupational Therapy Evaluation
Wound Care

Insurance Accepted

* Insurance information may change frequently. Please verify directly with the provider (doctor/clinic).

Humana
Medicaid
Medicare
CDPHP
Optum Health
UnitedHealthcare
UCare
Hennepin Health
HealthPartners
PreferredOne
Group Health Cooperative of Eau Claire
Medica

Cancer 13
Cardiology, Heart & Vascular Surgery 13
Orthopedics 23
Neurology & Neurosurgery 15
Gastroenterology & GI Surgery 21
Pulmonology & Lung Surgery 22
Diabetes & Endocrinology 8
Children's Hospital 7
Urology 20
Psychiatry 23
Geriatrics 18
Rehabilitation 10
Obsterics & Gynecology 3
Ophthalmology 1
Ear, Nose & Throat 2
Rheumatology 1
Long Term Care 2
Maternity Care (Uncomplicated Pregnancy) 19