Thomas E. Kottke, MD
HealthPartners
Cardiology

Hudson Specialty Clinic
405 Stageline Road
Hudson, WI
(715) 531-6700

Dr. Kottke is a clinical cardiologist, epidemiologist, and health services researcher at Regions Hospital Heart Center in St. Paul and the HealthPartners Research Foundation in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  His primary research interest is how lifestyle change can extend active life expectancy and delay the onset of disability.

Dr. Kottke's publications include 139 peer-reviewed papers, 30 book chapters and 25 invited editorials.  He was a member of both the first US Preventive Services Task Force and the federal panels that authored evidence-based guidelines for treating tobacco dependence (issued by the US Public Health Service in June 2000 and by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research in 1996).  Dr. Kottke is on the editorial board of the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, BMJ-USA and American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 

Dr. Kottke obtained his medical degree from the University of Minnesota School of Medicine, and received his residency training in internal medicine at the Royal Victoria Hospital, McGill University (Montreal) and at North Carolina Memorial Hospital (Chapel Hill).  He received an MSPH in epidemiology from the School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar in the Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.  Dr. Kottke trained in cardiovascular diseases and preventive cardiology at the Cardiovascular Division (Department of Medicine, School of Medicine) and Division of Epidemiology (School of Public Health), University of Minnesota. 

After serving on the faculty of the University of Minnesota School of Medicine, Dr. Kottke moved to Mayo Clinic Rochester where he was a consultant in the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases and a Professor of Medicine in the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine until June 2004.  Dr. Kottke is board certified in internal medicine and cardiovascular diseases. He is licensed to practice medicine in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa. While at Mayo Clinic Rochester, Dr. Kottke developed and directed CardioVision 2020 a project to make Olmsted County, Minnesota the healthiest county in the country by the year 2020.