Physician Assistant of the Year Award 2013

LCDR Billy Collins serves as a Senior Program Manager and Physician Assistant within the Department of Brain injury Medicine at Womack Army medical Center, Fort Bragg, North Carolina. In this assignment under the joint DOD-HHS Partners in Mental Health: Supporting Our Service members and their Families initiative, LCDR Collins worked diligently to establish a joint DOD-VA concussion screening and VA disability evaluation clinic that greatly improved the identification and evaluation process for service members who sustained head injury that significantly reduced the time to process the disability claims for service members leaving active duty service.

LCDR Collins currently serves as a director-at –large for the National Carolina Academy of Physician Assistants (NCAPA) and as the Student Affairs Committee chair. LCDR Collins has been heavily involved in activities at both the state and national level working to improve the Physician Assistant’s profession ability to provide high quality, patient focused care while simultaneously improving the practice environment for all physician assistants. LCDR Collins was a recent recipient of the American Academy of Physician Assistants Achievement Award for his extensive involvement with student recruitment, training and development of the NCAPA Student Leader Retreat.

LCDR Collins has consistently displayed exemplary professional and personal commitment to serve the Physician Assistant profession and the United States Public Health Service..

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