Dr. Christopher Cote, MD

Dr. Christopher Cote is a facial plastic surgeon and otolaryngologist at FacesFirst in Denver. He is certified by the American Board of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery and the American Board of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. His work includes rhinoplasty for appearance and breathing, facelifts, brow lifts and eyelid surgery, facial liposculpture, laser and light treatments, and reconstruction of the face, head and neck after skin cancer or injury. He also treats facial paralysis and nasal obstruction.

He studied at the College of the Holy Cross and Oxford University, was a Harvard research fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital, and received his medical degree from Tufts University. He completed his internship and otolaryngology residency at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the National Naval Medical Center, then a facial plastic and reconstructive surgery fellowship at Johns Hopkins.

Before joining FacesFirst he spent 12 years in the U.S. Army and was honorably discharged as a lieutenant colonel. He served as Chief of Otolaryngology for U.S. Forces in Korea, Chief of Facial Plastic Surgery and later Chief of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery at Walter Reed, and otolaryngology consultant to the White House Medical Unit, and he treated soldiers wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan. He teaches in the University of Colorado plastic surgery residency program.