Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Cooper University Hospital
Haddon Township, New Jersey
Dr. Christine Collins is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University and an Attending Physician with Cooper Addiction Medicine. Her clinical and academic work focuses on the intersection of emergency care, addiction medicine, and interventional pain management. She completed her Emergency Medicine residency at Cooper University Hospital, followed by a fellowship in Pain Management and Addiction Medicine at St. Joseph’s University Hospital. There, she trained with experts across anesthesia, sports medicine, palliative care, and physical medicine & rehabilitation (PM&R), developing innovative, opioid-sparing approaches to pain control. Dr. Collins recently launched an inpatient regional anesthesia program tailored to patients with substance use disorders and complex pain, with efforts underway to extend this model to outpatient care. Her research and educational initiatives aim to improve pain management for addiction populations. She serves with the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) Pain Management and Addiction section and is the current chair-elect of the Pain and Addiction Care in the ED (PACED) board.
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Beyond Withdrawal: Optimizing Pain in the Opioid Tolerant Patient
Saturday, April 25, 2026
4:45 PM - 6:00 PM PT