Dr Collum graduated from the Medical University of South Carolina in 1979. He completed his AP/CP residency training at Yale-New Haven Hospital in New Haven, CT and became Board Certified in AP/CP in 1983.
Dr Collum is the site medical director for the Phoenix and Denver regional labs as well and the division medical director for Mid-America. He came to LabCorp after serving as medical director of St Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center’s Department of pathology and laboratory medicine from 1993 until 2018. He was also chief of staff at St. Joseph’s from 2014-2017 and currently chairs their Credentials Committee.
He is an active member of the College of American Pathologists and has performed over 200 inspections. He currently chairs their Complaints and Investigations Committee and is a member of the International Accreditation Committee as well as the Commission on Laboratory Accreditation.
Dr Collum enjoys hiking, cycling, and jigsaw puzzles in his time away from work.