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Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

Become a Member
Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

Membership Benefits
ACS
ACS Fellow Since 1996

J. Craig Collins, MD FACS

Board Certification

  • American Board of Surgery - General Surgery

Additional Information

Gender

Male

General Surgery

Private

Long Beach, CA 90803

United States

Contact Information

Biography

General and minimally-invasive surgery

Subspecialties and Areas of Clinical Concentration

Abdomen and Digestion Disorder/Procedure

  • anti-reflux procedures
  • appendectomy
  • fundoplication
  • fundoplication - laparoscopic
  • gastroesophageal reflux disease
  • peptic ulcer disease
  • splenectomy

Liver, Gallbladder, Pancreas Disor/Proc

  • cholecystectomy
  • gallstone disease
  • laparoscopic cholecystectomy

Hernia Procedures

  • abdominal hernia
  • component separation
  • epigastric hernia
  • femoral hernia
  • inguinal hernia
  • laparoscopic hernia repair
  • paraesophageal hernia
  • umbilical hernia
  • ventral hernia

Minimal Access Surgery

Colon and Rectal Disorders/Cancer

  • colectomy
  • colon surgery
  • colon/rectal cancer
  • diverticular disease
  • hemorrhoidectomy
  • laparoscopic colon surgery

Minimally Invasive Procedures

  • laparoscopic surgery

Surgical Oncology (Cancer/Tumors)

  • colon cancer/polyps
  • colon/rectal cancer

Hospital Appointments

Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center

Trauma/Acute Care Surgeon

Academic Appointments

Surg (UCLA)

Clinical Associate Professor