Linda de Cossart
English vascular surgeon
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- Doctorate Vascular Surgery King's College London
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Linda de Cossart CBE is an English general surgeon who specialises in vascular surgery. She is the director of medical education at the Countess of Chester Hospital. Biography Linda de Cossart graduated from the University of Liverpool School of Medicine in 1972 and was admitted as a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1978. At the time, there were few female surgeons; de Cossart has said that "women were actively discouraged from going into surgery". After obtaining her surgical fellowship, she completed a Master of Surgery at the University of Liverpool with a thesis on venous disease. While performing research for her thesis, she developed sarcoidosis. In 1988, she was appointed by the Countess of Chester Hospital as a consultant general surgeon and was tasked with establishing a specialised service for peripheral vascular surgery at the hospital. She retired from surgery in 2009, and remains an emeritus consultant and the director of medical education at the Countess of Chester Hospital.
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