Daniel Margulies, MD, FACS

Daniel R. Margulies, MD, FACS is the Chief, Section of Trauma, Emergency Surgery and Surgical Intensive Care; Associate Director of the Division of General Surgery; Professor of Surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center; Health Sciences Clinical Professor of Surgery at the University of California at Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine. He is board certified in general surgery and surgical critical care.

Dr. Margulies has been a staff physician and member of the faculty at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, a Level I Trauma Center, for over twenty-four years. In his current role as Trauma Medical Director and Director of Acute Care Surgery he oversees trauma, emergency surgery and surgical critical care. In his academic role as a Professor of Surgery Dr. Margulies is the two-time recipient of the Leo Rigler Golden Apple Outstanding Teaching Award, a testament to his excellence in educating, mentoring and training residents and medical students.

Dr. Margulies is dedicated to professional organizations both regionally and nationally. He is an active member of the American College of Surgeons’ Committee on Trauma and will serve as Chairman of the Verification Review Committee come March, 2018. He is a member of the Emergency Medical Services Committee and State Faculty for the American College of Surgeons Advanced Trauma Life Support. He is currently President of the Southwestern Surgical Congress, District Representative of the Western Surgical Association, and has memberships with the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, American College of Surgeons, the Pacific Coast Surgical Association and the American Surgical Association. Dr. Margulies is also a Commissioner of Emergency Medical Services for the State of California.

In addition to his clinical and teaching interests as faculty of the general surgery residency program, and as past director of the Surgical Critical Care Fellowship at Cedars-Sinai, Dr. Margulies has a wide interest in surgical research in trauma and surgical critical care. He is widely published in peer-reviewed journals, has co-authored many book chapters and currently serves as an editorial reviewer for The Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery.

Dr. Margulies earned his bachelor’s degree from Stanford University in mechanical engineering, and earned his medical degree from the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine. He completed his general surgery internship and residency at the University of Hawaii School of Medicine, followed by a Clinical Fellowship in Surgical Critical Care at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.