Articles by Marcia Collins

Marcia Collins, Marcia Collins is the associate VP for medical education. She has devoted much of her professional career to monitoring trends and characteristics of the state’s physician workforce. Marcia joined TMA in 1996 and serves as the association’s liaison with the medical schools and staffs a number of physician committees including: TMA Council on Medical Education TMA Subcommittee for Academic Physicians TMA Committee on Physician Distribution and Health Care Access TMA Reference Committee on Medical Education (House of Delegates) Ad hoc Council of Medical School Deans She conducts research and drafts policy, advocacy, and public relations materials in the promotion of a high quality medical education system. Her duties include liaison with the state’s higher education coordinating board and medical board. Her personal interests include a passion for travel (recently substituted with gardening), photography, and her Pink Floyd music collection. One of her favorite activities outside TMA is driving German rental cars on the Autobahn at completely unreasonable speeds. She is married to her high school sweetheart and her most treasured role in life is parenting her daughter who is now 24 and lives in Austin.