Ms. Collins serves as the senior advisor in the Office of the Chief Medical Officer at the TRICARE Management
Activity, the military health care system which serves more than 9 million beneficiaries. In this position,
she supports the deputy chief medical officer across the scope of clinical quality improvement, patient safety,
behavioral medicine, and population health. Her main project work is in the area of patient and family-centered care;
she launched the Patient and Family-Centered Care Initiative for perinatal care in the Department of Defense.
Ms. Collins is currently the program manager for the Military Health System (MHS) Office of Transformation
initiative, Effective Patient Partnerships. In this role, Ms. Collins has collaborated and joined forces with
many disciplines and initiatives to leverage existing programs and to forge ahead with the integration of
evidence-based medicine with effective patient partnerships. She created a new innovations award category for
the MHS to recognize effective patient partnerships. She received her nursing degree from Boston College and her
Master's degree in pulmonary and psychiatric-mental health nursing from the University of Florida Graduate School.
