Board
Certification
American Board of Surgery, General Surgery
American Board of Surgery, Vascular Surgery –
1983, recertified 2003
Professional
Activity
Medical Director, Cedars-Sinai Vascular Laboratory
Co-Director, Vascular Trauma, Cedars-Sinai Medical
Center
Honors
and Awards
Graduated Cum Laude, Yale University
Professional
Organizations
Fellow, American College of Surgeons
Society for Vascular Surgery
Western Vascular Society
Southern California Vascular Society
Selected
Publications
Cossman
DV, Callow AD, Stein A, Matsumoto G.
Early restenosis after carotid endarterectomy.
Arch Surg 1978.
Cossman
DV, Rosenthal D, Callow AD. A simplified
technique for obtaining internal carotid artery
back pressures. SGO 1977.
Cossman
DV, Treiman RL, Foran RF, Levin PM, Cohen
JL. Surgical approach to recurrent carotid stenosis.
Am J Surg 1980;140:209.
Treiman
RL, Cossman DV, Cohen JL, Foran
RF, Levin PL. Significance of carotid bruit, a
reserved position. In: Delaney & Varco, eds.
Controversies in Surgery II. Philadelphia: WB
Saunders, 1983.
Cossman
DV, Ellison J, Wagner WH, Carroll RM,
Treiman RL, Foran RF, Levin PM, Cohen JL. Comparison
of dye arteriography to arterial mapping with
color flow duplex scanning in the lower extremities.
J Vasc Surg 1989;10:522-9.
Cossman
DV. Clinical Ultrasound. In: Schapira
JN, Harold JG, eds. Two-dimensional Echocardiography
and cardiac Doppler, Second Edition. Baltimore:
Williams and Wilkins, 1990.
Wagner
WH, Ellison J, Cossman DV. Discrimination
between acute and chronic deep venous thrombus
by duplex scan. Video J Color Flow Imaging 1991;1:128-31.
Wagner
WH, Cossman DV, Treiman RL, Foran
RF, Levin PM, Cohen JL. Hemosuccus pancreaticus
from intraductal rupture of a primary splenic
artery aneurysm. J Vasc Surg 1994;19(1):158-164.
Wagner
WH, Cossman DV, Treiman RL. Tourniquet
control for distal bypass. In: Whittemore AD,
ed. Advances in vascular surgery, Vol 2. St. Louis:
Mosby Year Book, Inc., 1994.
Rosendahl
T, Cossman D, Wagner W, Sabarsky
M. Transcranial Imaging. Video J Color Flow Imag
6:33-40, 1996.
Personal Interests
Golf
Tennis