Laura Collins, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Dr. Collins works full-time at the San Francisco VA Community Living Center. She is the physician-leader of the Social Focus Cohort, an interdisciplinary team that specializes in the care of veterans with complex medical, psychiatric and behavioral needs.

Education & Training

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• M.D. Medicine University of California, San Francisco 1998
• Residency School of Medicine University of California, San Francisco

Publications (11)

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AcetanilidesNutritional StatusBioethicsWearable Electronic DevicesCardiac Resynchronization TherapySeptal Occluder DeviceAngina, StableProfessional CompetenceParent-Child RelationsEnergy IntakeAustraliaAtrioventricular NodeFeeding BehaviorThinkingCD36 Antigens

• Not Ready for Prime Time? Clinical Pitfalls of Echocardiographic Interpretation on Miniaturized Wearable Devices.
  Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography : official publication of the American Society of Echocardiography 2016 Wosik J, Duong T, Martinez Parachini JR, Resendes E, Rangan BV, Roesle M, Minniefield N, Collins LJ, Grodin J, Abdullah SM, Banerjee S, Brilakis ES
• The Predictors of Diet Quality among Australian Children Aged 3.5 Years.
  Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics 2016 Collins LJ, Lacy KE, Campbell KJ, McNaughton SA
• Outcomes after atrioventricular node ablation and biventricular pacing in patients with refractory atrial fibrillation and heart failure: a comparison between non-ischaemic and ischaemic cardiomyopathy.
  Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology 2014 Sohinki D, Ho J, Srinivasan N, Collins LJ, Obel OA
• Fostering critical thinking, reasoning, and argumentation skills through bioethics education.
  PloS one 2012 Chowning JT, Griswold JC, Kovarik DN, Collins LJ
• Ranolazine for the treatment of refractory angina in a veterans population.
  Cardiovascular revascularization medicine : including molecular interventions 2012 Greene RS, Rangel RM, Edwards KL, Chastain LM, Brouse SD, Alvarez CA, Collins LJ, Brilakis ES, Banerjee S

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• Global health: a successful context for precollege training and advocacy.
  PloS one 2010 Gervassi AL, Collins LJ, Britschgi TB
• Mechanical valve dysfunction after percutaneous perimitral leak closure: salvage by percutaneous occluder retrieval.
  Catheterization and cardiovascular interventions : official journal of the Society for Cardiac Angiography & Interventions 2010 Brilakis ES, Collins LJ, Obel O, Banerjee S
• CD36 gene promoter polymorphisms are associated with low density lipoprotein-cholesterol in normal twins and after a low-calorie diet in obese subjects.
  Twin research and human genetics : the official journal of the International Society for Twin Studies 2008 Goyenechea E, Collins LJ, Parra D, Liu G, Snieder H, Swaminathan R, Spector TD, Martínez JA, O'Dell SD
• Adiponectin gene ADIPOQ SNP associations with serum adiponectin in two female populations and effects of SNPs on promoter activity.
  Journal of human genetics 2008 Kyriakou T, Collins LJ, Spencer-Jones NJ, Malcolm C, Wang X, Snieder H, Swaminathan R, Burling KA, Hart DJ, Spector TD, O'Dell SD
• Association of common JAK2 variants with body fat, insulin sensitivity and lipid profile.
  Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) 2008 Ge D, Gooljar SB, Kyriakou T, Collins LJ, Swaminathan R, Snieder H, Spector TD, O'Dell SD
• Common STAT3 variants are not associated with obesity or insulin resistance in female twins.
  Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) 2007 Jamshidi Y, Kyriakou T, Gooljar SB, Collins LJ, Lane CA, Snieder H, Wang X, Spector TD, O'Dell SD