Laura C. Collins, MD

2026 F.K. Mostofi Distinguished Service Award

Dr. Laura Collins is a Professor of Pathology, the Vice Chair of Oncologic Pathology and Chief of Breast Pathology at Weill Cornell Medicine/New York-Presbyterian and Breast Cancer Research Team Lead in the Meyer Cancer Center at WCM.

Dr. Collins earned her medical degree from the Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School in London, UK. She completed a residency in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology and Cytology Fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, thereafter joining the faculty at BIDMC and rising to the rank of Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School. She served as the Vice Chair of Anatomic Pathology at BIDMC for several years and previously as the Program Director of both the Residency and Selective Pathology Fellowship Training Programs.

She has served as a member of the USCAP Education Committee, USCAP Board of Directors, and as the Director of the Interactive Microscopy Courses for USCAP. She is also a Past-President of the Arthur Purdy Stout Society of Surgical Pathologists.

Dr. Collins is an internationally renowned breast pathologist. She has published numerous original articles, review articles and book chapters on breast pathology. She has twice been the guest editor for a monograph on Current Concepts in Breast Pathology in the Surgical Pathology Clinics Series. She co-authored the popular pathology textbook entitled “Biopsy Interpretation of the Breast”, now in its fourth edition, is the author of Tumors of The Mammary Gland for the American Registry of Pathology, and she was a contributor to several chapters in the WHO Classification of Tumors of the Breast, 2012, 2019 and 2026.

Her research interests are in breast cancer, and in particular the understanding of precursor lesions and early breast neoplasia. In addition to her work in research, Dr. Collins is a committed educator, giving numerous lectures and post-graduate CME courses around the US and the world to support the ongoing education of pathologists and pathologists-in-training in the diagnosis of breast disease.