William Collins, M.D.
Professor of Surgery Emeritus
Dr. William Collins is the Harvey and Kate Cushing Professor of Surgery Emeritus. He graduated from Yale University and Yale University School of Medicine. He received his surgical and neurosurgical training at Barnes Hospital St. Louis. He was a fellow in Neurophysiology at Washington University. He taught at Western Reserve School of Medicine reaching the rank of Associate Professor. He then was made Professor and Chief of Neurosurgery at the Medical College of Virginia leaving that position to take the position as Professor and Chief of Neurosurgery at Yale. He resigned that position in 1984 to become Chairman of the Department of Surgery and took Emeritus status in 1994.

In 1995, he was appointed Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Southern California and in 1996, Clinical Professor of Surgery (Neurosurgery), University of California School of Medicine at San Diego.

He no longer does surgery but sees patients in consultation. He recently has directed development of the Center for Children with Special Health Care Needs at Yale New Haven Hospital. His main clinical interests remain pain, pituitary tumors and spinal cord and peripheral nerve injury. Dr. Collins' research has been directed at the physiology and anatomies of pain, the relationships of the hypothalamus and pituitary gland, and the reaction of the Central Nervous System to injury. The latter has been mainly directed at spinal cord injury

Dr. William Collins can be reached at 203-785-2811
oremail to william.collins@yale.edu

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