Dr. Lauren Collins is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Emory University. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia and is a graduate of the Boston University School of Medicine. She completed her Internal Medicine residency at Duke University prior to moving to Atlanta where she completed Infectious Diseases fellowship and a Master of Science in Clinical Research at Emory University in 2020. Afterwards, she was recruited to join the Emory ID Division. She attends on the inpatient ID/HIV services at Grady Memorial Hospital and is a primary care physician at the Grady Ponce de Leon Center in the Adult and Women’s clinics, where she also serves as the Medical Director of the long-acting injectable antiretroviral therapy program.
Dr. Collins’s 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 aging-related comorbidities experienced by persons with HIV and investigates the role of sex differences as well as traditional versus HIV-specific risk factors contributing to overall comorbidity burden.
