In this thoroughly researched biography, Dr. Robert Collins remembers one of the twentieth century’s greatest scientists whose work fostered the field of virology and the success of Vanderbilt University Medical School. Ernest Goodpasture, a visionary pathologist, consummate investigator, practical idealist, and gracious colleague, is best known for his discovery of the chick embryo technique for culturing viruses. For this contribution to medical science, Goodpasture earned international renown as well as numerous honors and awards.
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Robert D. Collins was born in Fentress County, Tennessee, attended Webb School in Bell Buckle, and began a lifelong association with Vanderbilt University as an undergraduate in 1945. Graduating with his M.D. in 1951, Collins was privileged to receive training in pathology as a student and resident under Doctors Ernest Goodpasture, James Dawson, and John Shapiro. After a fellowship in microbiology at Johns Hopkins under Dr. Barry Wood, Collins returned to Vanderbilt as assistant professor of pathology in 1959. He was promoted to professor in 1968.
Collins served as assistant dean of medical students from 1964 to 1967, has received numberous teaching awards, the Harvie Branscomb Distinguished Professor Award, and the Grant Liddle Award for Excellence in Research. Collins has also enjoyed developing expertise in the study of diseases of lymph nodes and bone marrow, the specialty of hematopathology.
In 1999, Collins bagan a second career at Vanderbilt that includes writing this biography, developing a scholarship program for all medical students, and research with colleagues and former students at the Medical Center.
Dr. Collins and his wife Elizabeth Cate Collins live in Nashville. They have four children and five grandchildren.
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