University at Buffalo (UB)
Release Date: August 31, 1999 This content is archived.
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Richard Laurence Collins, M.D., of Clarence, has been elected president of the University at Buffalo Medical Alumni Association for 1999-2000.
Other officers elected are: vice president, John J. Bodkin II, M.D., of East Amherst, and treasurer, Stephen B. Pollack, M.D., of Williamsville.
A primary-care internist with the Buffalo Medical Group, Collins is a clinical assistant professor of medicine at UB.
He graduated from the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in 1983 and earned a bachelor's degree from Boston College in 1979.
Collins formerly was medical director of the Northwest Buffalo Community Health Care Center and a staff physician with Health Care Plan.
A former treasurer of the association, Collins has been involved in many activities at the school and in the community. He is a member of the American College of Physicians, Phi Beta Kappa and is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine.
Bodkin, president of the Highgate Medical Group, specializes in family practice.
A 1976 graduate of the UB medical school, he is an assistant professor of family medicine at UB and is affiliated with Kaleida Health, Millard Fillmore Hospitals. He earned a bachelor's degree from Manhattan College.
Pollack, who received his medical degree in 1982, is an assistant professor of ophthalmology at UB.
Affiliated with Kaleida Health, Millard Fillmore Hospitals, he earned his bachelor's degree from Brandeis University.