Dr. Collins is an attending surgeon at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. She is the director of the Adolescent Bariatric Surgery Program at CHOP, and has specialty training in minimally invasive general and obesity surgery. While her research interests are concentrated in the area of adolescent obesity, she maintains interest in all aspects of the care of the newborn or child with surgical problems including congenital anomalies, oncology, and trauma.

• 2002 - present American College of Surgeons (Fellow)
• 2002 - present Association of Women Surgeons
• 2004 - present Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons
• 2008 - present American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgeons
  • (member of Public Education Committee and Pediatric Surgery Committee)
• 2009 - present American Academy of Pediatrics (Fellow)
• 2009 - present American Pediatric Surgical Associates

• 2007 - present Pennsylvania Medical Society

1. Collins JL, Vodovotz Y, Yoneyama T, Hatakeyama K, Green AM, Billiar TR. Catecholamines de-crease nitric oxide production by cytokine-stimulated hepatocytes. Surgery 130(2):256-264, Aug. 2001.
2. Collins JL, Vodovotz Y, Hierholzer C, Villavicencio RT, Liu S, Alber S, Gallo D, Stolz DB, Watkins SC, Godfrey A, Gooding W, Kelly E, Peitzman AB, Billiar TR. Characterization of the expression of inducible nitric oxide synthase in rat and human liver during hemorrhagic shock. Shock 19(2):117-122, Feb. 2003.
3. Sacks BC, Mattar SG, Qureshi FG, Eid GM, Collins JL, Barinas-Mitchell EJ, Schauer PR, Ramanathan RC. Incidence of marginal ulcers and the use of absorbable anastomotic sutures in laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass. Surgery for Obesity & Related Diseases 2(1):11-16, Jan./Feb. 2006.
4. Eid GM, Gourash W, Collins JL. A novel technique for fascial fixation of laparoscopic adjustable gastric band ports. Surgical Endoscopy 20(4):697-699, Apr. 2006.
5. Collins JL, Mattar SG, Qureshi FG, Warman J, Ramanathan RC, Schauer PR, Eid GM. Initial outcomes of laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass in morbidly obese adolescents. Surgery for Obesity & Related Diseases 3(2):147-152, Mar./Apr. 2007.
6. Collins JL, McCloskey C, Titchner R, Goodpastro B, Hoffman M, Hauser D, Wilson M: Preoperative weight loss in high-risk super-obsese bariatric patients: A CT-based analysis. Surgery for Obesity & Related Diseases (in press, 2010).

1. Collins JL, Qureshi F, Sacks B, Velcu L, Thodiyil P, Lane B, Yenumula P, Rogula T, Taylor D, Eid G, Ramanathan R, Schauer PR, Mattar SG. Laparoscopic versus open Roux-en-Y gastric bypass after previous unsuccessful vertical banding gastroplasty. Poster presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons, 2004.

1. Collins JL, Vodovotz Y, Billiar TR. Biology of nitric oxide: Measurement, modulation, and models. Chap. 68 in Souba WW, Wilmore DW (eds.): Surgical Research. San Diego: Academic Press, 2001, 949-969.
2. Collins JL. Adolescent bariatric surgery. In Mattei P (ed.): Fundamentals of Pediatric Surgery. New York: Springer, 2009 (in press).
3. Collins JL, Nance ML. Thoracic emergencies. In Fleischer J, Ludwig S (eds.): Textbook of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Sixth Edition. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2009 (in press).