Lauren F. Collins, MD, MS

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Emory University

Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

Lauren F. Collins, MD, MSc is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Emory University. Dr. Collins’ clinical and research interests focus on improving the care of persons with HIV and in particular, women with HIV and those affected by the Southern HIV/AIDS epidemic. In her research, she studies the mounting burden of non-AIDS comorbidities experienced by aging persons with HIV and specifically investigates the role of aging, sex, mechanistic drivers, and traditional and HIV-specific risk factors contributing to overall comorbidity burden. She is also interested in the clinical, service delivery and public health implications of coinfections affecting persons with HIV, namely chronic HCV and SARS-CoV-2. Dr. Collins serves as a co-investiagator in the MACS/WIHS Combined Cohort Study and in the Emory Specialized Center of Research Excellence (SCORE on Sex Differences and in August 2020 was awarded a KL2 Scholarship through the Georgia Clinical & Translational Science Alliance.

Poster(s):

• 1903 - Factors associated with response to a phone-administered alcohol and substance use survey during the COVID-19 pandemic among women in the MACS/WIHS Combined Cohort Study: Who are we missing?
  Saturday, October 22, 2022

  12:15 PM – 1:30 PM US ET