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 John
P. Cole, MD practices in Atlanta, Georgia, Chicago,
Illinois, Tampa, Florida, and Charlotte, North Carolina.
Dr. Cole attended Mercer University on an academic scholarship
from the United States Army and graduated summa cum
laude with a degree in biology in 1981. He continued
on to the Medical College of Georgia, where he received
his medical degree in 1985.
Dr.
Cole completed his postgraduate medical training at
the University of Missouri in the field of internal
medicine. He has dedicated his practice solely to the
field of hair transplant surgery since 1990 He has maintained
a private practice in hair restoration since that time
He is a member of the International Society of Hair
Restoration Surgery, the American Society of Hair Restoration
Surgery and the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery.
Dr. Cole was among the first thirty physicians to become
a Diplomat of the American Board of Hair Restoration
Surgery.
He
serves on the Board of Directors and examination committee
for the American Board of Hair Restoration Surgery In
the interest of sharing his knowledge to improve the
field of hair transplantation, Dr. Cole has written
and presented many papers, both to hair transplantation
societies and at educational seminars. He maintains
a keen interest in development of instruments to refine
hair transplantation procedures, creative research in
follicular anatomy, and has developed mathematical formulas
to accurately measure human performance in hair restoration
surgery
In
1999 Dr. Cole was awarded a research grant from the
International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery for
his work on regional variation in hair diameter and
hair density He presented the current findings from
this research at the 2000 meeting of the International
Society of Hair Restoration Surgery In December 2000,
Dr. Cole orchestrated the Beginner’s Program at
the International Society of Hair Restoration’s
Annual Medical Conference in Hawaii whereby he trained
over 75 physicians in the processes and techniques of
hair transplantation Dr. Cole is an invited speaker
to the first Korean Workshop on Hair Restoration, the
2001 European Society of Hair Restoration Surgery in
Barcelona, and the 2001 Italian Society of Hair Restoration
Surgery meeting in Sicily
Dr.
Cole will function as Co-chair at the Aegean meeting
of hair restoration surgery in Athens, Greece this year
At the 2000 International Society of Hair Restoration
Surgery meeting Dr. Cole was awarded First Place by
the International Society of Hair Restoration for his
poster presentation entitled, “Computer Applications
in Hair Transplantation.” He was named to the
Research Committee of the International Society of Hair
Restoration Surgery in 1999 Dr. Cole will function as
director of the Beginners Program at the International
Society Meeting of Hair Restoration Surgery meeting
in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
He
is in charge of the audio-visual committee of the ISHRS
meeting in Puerto, Vallarta He will speak at the 2003
annual meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology
in San Francisco on the subject of donor harvesting
and management along with a select group consisting
of only four other physicians His most recent scientific
project is developing improved optics for the dissection
and harvesting of white hairs using physics and lasers
His most recent inventions include a follicle cutting
board with fiber optic back lighting He is presently
working on a recipient site counting device and a computerized
fluid dynamic anesthesia delivery machine
Dr.
Cole has invented several other instruments to improve
the speed and efficiency of hair restoration surgery
These include instruments to harvest the donor region,
instruments to prepare the recipient sites, and most
recently a slivering board to assist in the preparation
of thin strips of donor tissue over 1 cm in length and
1 mm wide This slivering board is transparent and allows
for both top and bottom lighting The combination of
both improves visualization of the grafts and decreases
trauma to the individual hairs The production of thin
slivers speeds the production of grafts, at a rate often
exceeding 450 per hour, with minimal damage to the hairs
His latest inventions include a fiber optic back lighting
system that allows visualization through the tissue
so that all hairs are easily distinguished, a new anesthesia
delivery system, a new recipient site instrument, a
new ergonomic microscope base, a voice activated computerized
graft counting system, and a suction device to assist
in the production of recipient sites under a clean field
Media
Dr. Cole has many appearances and interviews by local
stations and national publications These include a local
CBS TV interview in 1992, live radio interview regarding
propecia in 1998, plastic surgery television interview
in 1999, and an interview by Cosmetic Surgery Times
in 1998.
Teaching
ISHRS Beginners course 98, 99, 2000, 2001
Italy 1997 beginners course European 2001 Beginners
course Korean Live surgery workshop 2001 Numerous physicians
have traveled from Europe and the middle east to learn
hair restoration surgery from Dr. Cole Dr. Cole served
as the surgery research coordinator in Orlando, FL for
the International Society of Hair Restoration Live Surgery
Workshop in 2002 Dr. Cole is currently involved in teaching
the training Fellow physicians for Medical Hair Restoration
Articles
Several in Forum on nomenclature, the use of trigonometry
to accurately calculate the donor harvest, how to estimate
the recipient area, how to estimate the size and number
of follicular units, how to maximize donor yield, how
to measure the distance between the grafts based on
the density and the pattern of distribution, how to
predict coverage, and predicted yield. The chapter on
Donor Harvesting for Walter Unger’s new text is
authored by Dr. Cole A featured article in Cosmetic
Surgery Times on Donor Harvesting in 1998
Awards
1999 ISHRS Research Grant for his study on Regional
Variation in Hair, 2001 Archimedes Award by the Italian
Society of Hair Restoration Surgery, 2002 Michelangelo
Award for Elegance and Energy, 2002 DHI 30 Year Anniversary
Award for his contribution to hair research and the
Aegean Masters Hair Restoration Surgery Meeting
Presentations
Maximizing Donor yield, donor harvesting, mathematics
of follicular transplantation, microscope vs loops comparison,
etiology of hair loss, mustache transplantation, the
metamorphic changes to surgically excised hairs, biological
switches, and the physics of light Numerous seminars
across the United States on the cause and treatment
of androgenic alopecia to the lay public
Dr.
Cole’s other interests include computers, electronics,
flying, snowboarding, water skiing, baseball wake boarding,
golf, dressage, and raising his children.
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