DrOrla Collins

Dr. Orla Collins is a Consultant Physician in Geriatric and Acute Medicine in St. Vincent's University Hospital. She is a Clinical Associate Professor in the UCD School of Medicine. 

She studied undergraduate medicine in Trinity College Dublin. She completed her specialist training in Geriatric and General Internal Medicine in 2011. She was awarded a PhD from Trinity College Dublin in 2012. She was appointed as a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 2013. She completed a diploma with the RCPI/ HSE in Leadership and Quality in Healthcare in 2019. She is the clinical lead in Acute Medicine in SVUH. She is the current chair of the Physicians Subgroup. She is also chair of the Health Promotion Committee in SVUH. She is a trainer with the RCPI.

Her subspeciality interests include prevention and early diagnosis of MCI & dementia due to Alzheimer's disease, falls, syncope and health promotion. She runs speciality outpatient clinics in cognition, falls and syncope in Caritas Older Persons's Unit.