Daniel Margulies, MD, FACS Director, Trauma Services and Acute Care Surgery, Surgery Associate Director, General Surgery
Email: daniel.margulies@cshs.org Phone: (310) 423-5874 Fax: (310) 423-0139

Academic Appointments

Professor, Surgery

Awards and Activities

Leo Rigler Golden Apple Teaching Award, Cedars-Sinai Surgical Residency	2006
Editor: The Amercan Surgeon	2007 - 2010
Society of Critical Care Medicine	1992
American College of Surgeons, Fellow	1998
American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, Member	1999
Pacific Coast Surgical Association, Member	2001
Bay Surgical Society, Board of Directors	2004 - 2010
State Chairman, Southern California, American College of Surgeons Committee On Trauma,	2004 - 2011
American College of Surgeons, Governor-at-large, Calfiornia	2007
Bay Surgical Society, Vice- President	2008
American College of Surgeons, Committee on Trauma	2012

Research Focus

Injury related research with focus on nutrition, sepsis, infection, and surgical critical care. The high volume of complex cases provide significant opportunity for investigation to optimize patient care.

Research Contributions

Cedars-Sinai combines the newest surgical technology and applies this to our multiply injured and critically ill patients. The trauma team and Surgical ICU probe this concept staying on the forefront of discovery and care. Examples include advocating for CT angiogram in diagnosing vascular neck injury, saving the patient invasive studies; use of laparoscopy for trauma, often saving large incisions for diagnosis and treatment of abdominal injuries, and a new technique of rapidly reversing anticoagulation from coumadin in brain injury patients.

Current investigations include:

--Rapid reversal of anticoagulation in traumatic brain injury
--Utility of FDG-PET and PET/CT in the Evaluation of Patients with Suspected Cholecystitis
--A multicenter, randomized, open-label comparison of the safety and efficacy of tigecycline, with that of ampicillin-sulbactam or to treat complicated skin and skin structure infections

Selected Publications

1. Woo K, Wilson MT, Killeen K, Margulies DR: Adapting to the changing paradigm of management of colon injuries. Am. J. Surg., 194(6): 746-9; discussion 750, 2007
2. Woo K, Magner DP, Wilson MT, Margulies DR: CT angiography in penetrating neck trauma reduces the need for operative neck exploration. The American surgeon, 71(9): 754-8, 2005
3. Major KM, Hui T, Wilson MT, Gaon MD, Shabot MM, Margulies DR: Objective indications for early tracheostomy after blunt head trauma. Am. J. Surg., 186(6): 615-9; discussion 619, 2003
4. Chelly MR, Major K, Spivak J, Hui T, Hiatt JR, Margulies DR: The value of laparoscopy in management of abdominal trauma. The American surgeon, 69(11): 957-60, 2003
5. Hui TT, Major KM, Avital I, Hiatt JR, Margulies DR: Outcome of elderly patients with appendicitis: effect of computed tomography and laparoscopy. Archives of surgery (Chicago, Ill. : 1960), 137(9): 995-8; discussion 999-1000, 2002
6. Khalili TM, Koss W, Margulies DR, Morrison E, Shabot MM: Percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy is as safe as open tracheostomy. The American surgeon, 68(1): 92-4, 2002