Sean Collins, MD, MSci, professor of Emergency Medicine, has taken on new leadership roles in the Vanderbilt Coordinating Center (VCC) and the Vanderbilt Institute for Medicine and Public Health (IMPH).
Collins will become co-director of the VCC, which was founded in 1989 by Gordon Bernard, MD, Melinda Owen Bass Professor of Medicine and Executive Vice President for the Office of Research. The VCC provides support for clinical trials led by VUMC through multiple teams — one that helps with screening and enrollment, another that provides consultation on design and recruitment and another that serves as a liaison for researchers — all with the goal of optimizing trial results.