Dr. Collins is an experienced speaker, with experience in both academic and non-academic environments.
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A former Yale Varsity Football Letterman and All-Ivy award winner, Dr. Collins now combines both his experience as a collegiate athlete and as a mental health professional in the arena of Sports Psychiatry. As a resident physician at Stanford, he is training at the renowned Sports Psychiatry and Sports Psychology Program, which provides evaluation and treatment for professional, Olympic, and NCAA athletes from around the San Francisco Bay area.
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Dr Collins was diagnosed with Type I Diabetes at the age of 13, which became on of the main motivators for studying the field of medicine. As a Diabetes Advocate, he is involved with helping others with T1D manage their glycemic control through exercise. Today, he continues to explore the intersection of chronic illness and mental health.
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Black Lives Matter, now and forever more. Dr Collins works tirelessly on diversity and social justice initiatives in order to recruit more future physicians of underrepresented backgrounds into medicine while simultaneously attempting to better his community around him for people of color. He currently serves as the Chair of the GME Diversity Committee at Stanford Healthcare.
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How do you combat "Diabetes Burnout'?
In this recorded session presented at the 2020 JDRF Virtual Summit, Dr. Collins presents expert guidance on how to both identify and alleviate ‘Diabetes Burnout’.
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All you need to know about sports psychiatry, Annual Medical Education Conference 2022
Each year, the Annual Medical Education Conference (AMEC) is consistently the largest gathering of underrepresented minority medical students in the nation. Dr. Collins was invited as an expert in the burgeoning field of sports psychiatry.
Testimonials
“Dr. Roy Collins’ presentation as a keynote speaker at our Type One Diabetes Virtual Round Table was nothing short of inspiring.
He really spoke from his heart and own experience as a person with Type One who understands the struggles and frustrations with the disease. Through those struggles he showed how he and so many others are able to persevere through the battle and reach their goals. With mental health being a very important and relevant topic for this community we serve, he did an excellent job relating to the attendees and answering their questions with ease.
— Lilly Novak
Community Outreach Coordinator •
Henry Mayo Fitness and Health
“Dr. Collins spoke to my high school juniors in the fall of 2020 which put his talk in the middle of a pandemic and compulsory virtual learning.
Students loved his real-life and well told stories of being a student athlete, obstacles he faced and the innovative paths he took to overcome them. As a teacher, I appreciated how he could thoughtfully and fluently navigate the range of topics his talk and the kids' questions covered. He was in one moment Dr. Collins the academic and achiever and the next moment Roy the relatable and vulnerable adult. Students were inspired that they, too could be both. His talk was an excellent classroom experience I would encourage others to have as well.”
— Dorothy Carlson
English and AVID Teacher • Westview High School
