Rate My Professor Anne Collins

Dr Anne Collins serves as Clinical Senior Lecturer in the Department of Surgery and Critical Care (Dunedin) at the University of Otago. Her qualifications include MB BCh BAO(Hons), B Med Sci(Hons), MCh, FRCSI(Plast), and FEBOPRAS, obtained primarily from Irish institutions such as University College Dublin and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. She is a consultant plastic, reconstructive, and aesthetic surgeon with positions at Dunedin Hospital and Southland Hospital in Invercargill, alongside private practice at Mercy Hospital in Dunedin and Southern Cross Central Lakes Hospital in Queenstown. Collins completed her medical degree with honours from University College Dublin in 2004, followed by specialist training in plastic surgery across major centres in Ireland, encompassing adult and paediatric cases. She undertook two years of advanced subspecialty training in Sydney, Australia, focusing on microsurgical breast and head and neck reconstruction, cosmetic surgery of the face, breast, and body, and hand surgery.

Her clinical specialties include skin cancer surgery for melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancers, hand surgery, breast surgery, body transformation procedures, and both surgical and non-surgical facial aesthetics. Collins has demonstrated academic commitment through numerous publications and awards. Key publications comprise 'Plastic surgery training courses: Motivation, money matters and more' (International Journal of Surgery Research & Practice, 2018), 'Microsurgery fellowship at St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, Australia: The ultimate hidden gem' (Annals of Plastic Surgery, 2017), 'Giant desmoid tumour of the thorax following latissimus dorsi and implant breast reconstruction' (Irish Medical Journal, 2017), 'The use of social media by plastic surgery journals' (Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery, 2016), and 'Audiovisual preconditioning enhances the efficacy of an anatomical dissection course' (Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery, 2015). Notable awards include the Kilner Prize for Best Overall Paper at the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons Winter Meeting (2008), first prize at the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland Surgical Section (2008), Irish Association of Plastic Surgeons Annual Meeting Clinical Conundrum first prize (2012), multiple Ethicon Foundation Travel Grants (2015, 2017), and the Federation of European Societies for Surgery of the Hand travelling fellowship (2013). As a Clinical Senior Lecturer, she contributes to the training and mentoring of future plastic surgeons.