Benjamin Collins, MD, MS, MA

Benjamin Collins is an assistant professor and physician with Hospital Medicine with a secondary appointment with the Department of Biomedical Informatics. He completed medical school at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine in Richmond, VA and internal medicine residency at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia, PA. During residency, he also earned an MA degree from Temple. He then completed a clinical informatics fellowship at Oregon Health & Science University along with an MS degree in biomedical informatics, finishing a capstone project by developing an online training module for clinicians on using algorithms in health care. He also completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at Vanderbilt University Medical Center with research focused on artificial intelligence in health care.

He is interested in the use of AI for clinical decision support and to improve health care and options for all. This includes working to ensure that AI does not contribute to healthcare outcome differences through qualitative research, community engagement, and improving clinician education and training on the use of AI.  He is also interested in medical education, narrative medicine, and medical philosophy.