AlfredJosephCossariJr.MD

Pediatric & Strabismus

Chief of the Section of Ophthalmology Mather Hospital / Northwell Health

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Office
311 Barnum Ave
Port Jefferson, NY 11777
Phone+1 631-928-6400

Fax+1 631-928-2353

Dr. Alfred Cossari is an ophthalmologist in Port Jefferson, NY and is affiliated with Mather/Northwell Hospital where he is Chief of the Ophthalmology Service and St. Charles Hospital. He received his medical degree from La Sapienza at the University of Rome where he was involved in ophthalmic research under Prof. G.B. Bietti. At the Wilmer Institute of Johns Hopkins University he completed a Retinal Vascular Fellowship under Dr. Arnall Patz, followed by a Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus Fellowship at the Children's National Hospital of George Washington University under Dr. Marshall Parks after a surgical internship and ophthalmology residence at the Nassau University Hospital. He has been in private practice for 48 years, speaks both English and Italian, and specializes in Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus in children and adults. In addition to caring for both children and adults, his specialty interests include the surgical and nonsurgical management of eye muscle disorders and double vision, eye disorders of infancy and childhood, dyslexia, and headache/migraine evaluations. He continues to be involved in clinical research.

Strabismus surgery, Children's eye disorders, Diplopia management, Dyslexia evaluations, Exotropia, esotropia and hypertropia, Headache/migraine diagnosis and counselling

Children's National Medical Center/George Washington UniversityFellowship, Pediatric Ophthalmology, 1975 - 1976
Johns Hopkins UniversityResidency, Ophthalmology, 1974 - 1975
Nassau University Medical CenterResidency, Ophthalmology, 1971 - 1974
Nassau University Medical CenterInternship, Transitional Year, 1970 - 1971
La SapienzaClass of 1969

PubMed

7 citations
Parainfectious optic neuritis and encephalomyelitis. A report of two cases with thalamic involvement.
Latif M. Hamed, Jonathan Silbiger, John Guy, J. Parker Mickle, Patrick A. Sibony
Journal of Clinical Neuro-Ophthalmology. 1993-03-01
2 citations
Progressive iris changes in a case of Axenfeld-Rieger syndrome.
Robert Honkanen, Wallace L.M. Alward, Alfred J. Cossari
Archives of Ophthalmology. 2006-12-01
Nonsurgical Consecutive Exotropia Following Childhood Esotropia: A Multicentered Study.
Linda Colpa, Sina Khalili, Stephen Kraft, Darron Bacal, Coralie Hemptinne
American Journal of Ophthalmology. 2024-02-01

Journal Articles

Non-Surgical Consecutive Exotropia following Childhood Esotropia: A Multicentered Study
Linda Colpa, Sina Khalili, Stephen Kraft , Darron Bacal, Coralie Hemptinne, Demet Yuksel, Alfred Cossari, Kamiar Mireskandari, American Journal of Ophthalmology, 7/28/2023
Reversible Blindness in Optic Neuritis Associated with Influenza Vaccination.
Perry, HD, Mallen FJ, Grodin RW, Cossari, AJ., Annals of Ophthalmology 1979; 11: No.4
Corneal perforation in a premature infant
Zagelbaum BM, Stroh EM, Perry HD, Donnenfeld ED, Cossari AJ, J Refract Surg, 4/1995
Corneal perforation in a premature infant
Zagelbaum BM, Stroh EM, Perry HD, Donnenfeld ED, Cossari AJ, J Refract Surg, 4/1995
Parainfectious Optic Neuritis and Encephalomyelitis
Hamed, LF, Silbiger, J, Guy, J, Mickle, JP, Sibony, P, Cossari, AJ, Andriola, M, Journal of Clinical Neuro-ophthalmology, 1993
Chronic Lymphangiectasis in Turner's Syndrome
Perry HD, Cossari AJ, British Journal of Ophthalmology, 1986
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Books/Book Chapters

Ophthalmic Desk Reference
Chapter: Ocular Motility
Page 61 - 123Cossari, AJ.Editors: Collins JF.Masson Pub. USA, Inc., NewYork1991
The Eye in Systemic Disease
Chapter: Lymphedema
Page 668 - 669Cossari AJ, Perry, HD, Donnenfeld, EDEditors: Gold DH, Weingeist TA, ed..Lippincott JP, New York1990

Abstracts/Posters

Intermittent exotropia: a novel surgical algorithm based on a postocclusion distant-near relationship
Alfred J. Cossari, Maja Magazin, Alan Kaell, Gregory D. Haggerty, JAAPOS, 8/1/2022

Lectures

Distinguished Alumni Professor Lecture
Children's National Medical Center, Washington, D.C. - 6/26/2019
David S. Friendly Lecture
Costenbader Society, Asheville, NC - 10/13/2013