Thomas E. Kottke, MD, MSPH, is the medical director for population health at HealthPartners and is also a clinical cardiologist in HealthPartners Medical Group, an epidemiologist, and a health services researcher at the HealthPartners Institute for Education and Research in Minneapolis, Minn. His primary professional interests are 1) promoting lifestyles that extend active life expectancy, increase well-being, and delay the onset of disability and 2) applying research findings to inform cardiovascular disease prevention and treatment priorities.
Dr. Kottke earned his medical degree from the University of Minnesota School of Medicine in Minneapolis and completed his residency training in internal medicine at the Royal Victoria Hospital, McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and at North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill. He received a master of science in public health degree in epidemiology from the School of Public Health of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar in the Department of Medicine at the same institution. Dr. Kottke trained in cardiovascular diseases and preventive cardiology in the Cardiovascular Division of the Department of Medicine and the Division of Epidemiology in the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota. He is board certified in internal medicine and cardiovascular diseases.
After serving on the faculty of the University of Minnesota School of Medicine from 1981 through 1987, Dr. Kottke moved to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., where he was a consultant in the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases and a professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine until June 2004. He now holds the academic rank of professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota.
Diabetes Spectrum associate editor Joann Sperl-Hillen, MD, coordinated this From Research to Practice section.
