Justin Collins, MD

Dr. Justin Collins is a robotic surgeon at UCLH, honorary associate professor at UCL and consults for MedTech industry in the areas of surgical training in knowledge and skills assessments.  From 2014-2019 he worked as a Urologist and research coordinator at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm and in the last year of this he was also the medical director at ORSI academy.

He graduated from Bristol University England and has completed surgical fellowships at Clinique St Augustine, Bordeaux; Karolinska, Stockholm; USC Keck Medical Los Angeles and Mansoura University Hospital, Egypt. His research interests include improving robotic surgical training with data-based metric development that is benchmarked, telesurgery, surgical data science and the application of AI in healthcare. Dr. Collins is currently contributing to ongoing research work to standardize robotic training and train the trainer curricula. This work includes integration of novel technologies such as telesurgery to help develop international robotic networks with the future potential to enable collaborative telementorship, co-surgery, educational webinars and to guide and improve decision making with AI.

He has published over 200 articles on robotic surgery and is ranked 32nd globally for publications on Robotic Surgical procedures according to Expertscape. Dr. Collins is a reviewer for several high impact journals and has been guest editor for Current Opinion in Urology and MDPI Healthcare journal.

With his experience and expertise in robotic surgery, innovation in emerging technologies, the Delphi process, and AI, Dr. Collins is an excellent addition to the ISE board.