Bradley Collins, M.D., a 2010 Cook Award winner

posted February 17th, 2010

Bradley Collins, M.D., an associate professor of surgery at Duke Medical Center, is among nine members of the Duke-Durham community selected as 2010 “Sammie” award winners, named for the distinguished Duke University political scientist, educator and human rights activist Samuel DuBois Cook.

Collins, whose clinical practice includes liver, kidney and pancreas transplantation, encourages organ donation, particularly to under-represented minorities. He also coaches basketball and baseball through the Durham Parks and Recreation Department and helps to serve meals each month at Urban Ministries.

The winners were at the 13th-annual dinner and awards ceremony Tuesday, Feb. 16, at the Washington Duke Inn & Golf Club. All were chosen in appreciation of their work in furthering the legacy of Cook, Duke’s first the first African American faculty member.