2006 Distinguished Alumnus Award Recipients

Dr. William Collins, recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus Award for Loyalty

Dr. Collins graduated from MCG in 1962 and works as an orthopedic surgeon at the Northside Orthopaedic Clinic in Atlanta. He earned a master’s degree in business administration from Kennesaw State University in 1998.

He was co-director of the Cerebral Palsy Clinic at Scottish Rite Hospital (now Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta) from 1974-86 and served as a clinical associate professor at Emory University School of Medicine from 1975-96. He is a past president of the MCG School of Medicine Alumni Association, MCG Foundation Board of Directors and Medical Association of Georgia. He is a Founder’s Level member of the MCG President’s Club, chair of the Board of Directors for the Medical Association of Atlanta and served on the American Academy of Orthopedics Research Committee.

 

 

Dr. Jerome Siegel, recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus Award for Professional Achievement

Dr. Siegel earned his medical degree from MCG in 1960 and completed a research fellowship in gastroenterology and liver diseases at the Royal Free Hospital in London. He is a clinical professor of medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, N.Y., and has worked as a physician at Gastroenterology-Hepatology-Gastrointestinal Endoscopy in New York City since 1975.

He is a master of the American College of Gastroenterology and was recently elected governor of the college representing Manhattan. He also was recently elected a board member of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Foundation. He was included in Castle Connolly Medical Ltd.’s America’s Top Doctors publication and Woodward-White’s Best Doctors in America.

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Contact Director of Alumni Relations
Scott Henson, shenson@mcg.edu, at 706-721-4416