Dr. Collins is an experienced speaker, with experience in both academic and non-academic environments. His diverse experiences in the worlds of collegiate sports, T1D and diversity advocacy in addition to his training as a mental health provider enable him to give compelling and powerful insights.

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  • A former Yale Varsity Football Letterman and All-Ivy award winner, Dr. Collins now combines both his experience as a collegiate athlete and as a mental health professional in the arena of Sports Psychiatry. As a resident physician at Stanford, he is training at the renowned Sports Psychiatry and Sports Psychology Program, which provides evaluation and treatment for professional, Olympic, and NCAA athletes from around the San Francisco Bay area.

  • Dr Collins was diagnosed with Type I Diabetes at the age of 13, which became on of the main motivators for studying the field of medicine. As a Diabetes Advocate, he is involved with helping others with T1D manage their glycemic control through exercise. Today, he continues to explore the intersection of chronic illness and mental health.

  • Black Lives Matter, now and forever more. Dr Collins works tirelessly on diversity and social justice initiatives in order to recruit more future physicians of underrepresented backgrounds into medicine while simultaneously attempting to better his community around him for people of color.

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  • Interested in booking Dr. Collins for your event?

    Dr. Collins is based in the San Francisco Bay Area, but it open to traveling for engagements and has extensive experience with creating virtual presentations.

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  • Testimonial

    “Dr. Roy Collins’ presentation as a keynote speaker at our Type One Diabetes Virtual Round Table was nothing short of inspiring.

    He really spoke from his heart and own experience as a person with Type One who understands the struggles and frustrations with the disease. Through those struggles he showed how he and so many others are able to persevere through the battle and reach their goals. With mental health being a very important and relevant topic for this community we serve, he did an excellent job relating to the attendees and answering their questions with ease.”

    — Lilly Novak, Community Outreach Coordinator • Henry Mayo Fitness and Health

  • Testimonial

    “Dr. Collins spoke to my high school juniors in the fall of 2020 which put his talk in the middle of a pandemic and compulsory virtual learning.

    Students loved his real-life and well told stories of being a student athlete, obstacles he faced and the innovative paths he took to overcome them. As a teacher, I appreciated how he could thoughtfully and fluently navigate the range of topics his talk and the kids' questions covered. He was in one moment Dr. Collins the academic and achiever and the next moment Roy the relatable and vulnerable adult. Students were inspired that they, too could be both. His talk was an excellent classroom experience I would encourage others to have as well.”

    — Dorothy Carlson, English and AVID Teacher • Westview High School

  • Testimonial

    In our team of medical people, we have nurses, doctors, perhaps nutritionists, but we NEVER have T1D exercise specialists.  Why not?  We’re asked all the time if we exercise, but it’s quickly brushed aside if we respond affirmatively.  We know it isn’t easy. It’d be nice to have more experts like Dr. Collins!

     Thank you for your amazing work bringing him to our meeting!  And of course, Thank you to Dr. Collins!!!

    - Feedback provided through Jennifer Pliner, Community Engagement Manager, BreakthroughT!D

Past Speaking Engagements

 

JDRF 2023 TypeOneNation: Using Exercise to Build Resilience

In this recorded session presented at the 2023 JDRF TypeOneNation Summit, Dr. Collins presents expert guidance on how to utilize both physical and mental strategies to build Resilience and combat ‘Diabetes Burnout’.

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AMEC 2022: "All you need to know about
sports psychiatry"

Each year, the Annual Medical Education Conference (AMEC) is consistently the largest gathering of underrepresented minority medical students in the nation. Dr. Collins was invited as an expert in the burgeoning field of sports psychiatry.

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