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The Holy Cross Board of Trustees has unanimously confirmed
the selection of a new chairman at its Dec. 1 meeting. Michael
F. Collins, M.D., '77 will be the first medical doctor to
serve in this capacity. He will begin a six-year term on
July 1, 2002, when current chairman, H.E. "Jack" Lentz
'67, completes his tenure.
Collins is president and chief executive officer of Caritas
Christi, the health care system sponsored by the Archdiocese
of Boston. Caritas Christi is an integrated health care system
with six hospitals, two nursing homes, a hospice, a home
for women and children, and Laboure College, where nurses
and allied health professionals are educated. Caritas Christi
has just under $1 billion in annual revenues, over 12,000
employees and the second largest inpatient market share in
the eastern Massachusetts health care marketplace.
"Michael Collins has an outstanding record of leadership.
His experience as the successful CEO of a major nonprofit
organization and his extensive involvement in fund raising,
for both Holy Cross and the Catholic health care system,
will be most helpful to me and to the Trustees," says
Holy Cross President Michael C. McFarland, S.J. "His
long and devoted service to the College shows his great loyalty
to and love of Holy Cross."
After graduating cum laude from Holy Cross in 1977 with
a degree in chemistry, he attended Tufts University School
of Medicine in Boston. Collins, who trained at St. Elizabeth's
Medical Center of Boston, is board certified in internal
medicine. He spent two years at Texas Tech University in
Lubbock as a member of the faculty in internal medicine and
as a member of the Dean's Office at the Health Sciences Center.
Returning to Boston in 1986 to become a member of the faculty
at Tufts, he is currently a clinical professor of medicine
there and a member of the medical staff at St. Elizabeth's
Medical Center of Boston.
Collins is actively involved in numerous professional and
civic organizations. Currently, he serves as chair of the
board of the Catholic Health Association of the United States,
an organization that represents over 1,200 U.S. Catholic
health care institutions. In addition he serves on the boards
of the Massachusetts Business Roundtable and Newton Country
Day School of the Sacred Heart.
At Holy Cross, Collins served as a class chair from 1983-1994
and as national chair of the Holy Cross Fund from 1994-2001;
he joined the Board of Trustees in 1996. As a Trustee he
has served as chair of the Academic Affairs Committee since
1998; he is also a member of the Development and College
Relations Committee, the executive committee of the Board
and the Campaign Steering Committee.
Collins lives in Westwood, Mass., with his wife, Maryellen,
and their two children.
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