Penn Medicine Provider
Ronald Gary Collman, MD
Sees patients age 18 and up

About me

  • Director, Penn Center for AIDS Research
  • Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care)
  • Professor of Medicine in Microbiology

Education and training

  • Medical School: Boston University School of Medicine
  • Residency: Temple University Hospital
  • Fellowship: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Insurance accepted

My Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Penn Medicine Rittenhouse Long-Term Acute Care Hospital
Dr. Collman is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

My research

Wetzel, K.S., Bayer, A., Bello, E., Romero, D., Yi, Y., Bibollet-Ruche, F., Hahn, B.H., Silvestri, G., Peeters, M., Collman, R.G. Loss of CXCR6 coreceptor usage characterizes pathogenic lentivirus infections , PLoS Pathogens, 14(4): 2018,e1007003


Clarke, E.L., Lauder, A.P., Hofstaedter, C.E., Fitzgerald, A.S., Imai, I., Bierna, W., Bekawiecki, B., Majewska, H., Dubaniewicz, A., Litzky, L.A., Feldman, M.D., Bittinger, K., Rossman, M.D., Patterson, K.C., Bushman, F.D., Collman, R.G. Microbial lineages in sarcoidosis: A metagenomic analysis tailored for low microbial content samples , Am. J. Respiratory Crit. Care Med., 197(2): 2018


Sherril-Mix, S., McCormick, K., Lauder, Al, Bailey, A., Zimmerman, L., Li, Y., Django, J.B.N., Bertolani, P., Colin, C., Hart, J.A. Hart, T.B., Georgiev, A.V., Zanz, C.M., Morgan, D. B., Atencia, R., Cox, D., Muller, M.N., Sommer, V., Piel, A., Stewart, F.A., Speede, S., Roman, J., Wu, G., Taylor, J., Bohm, R., Rose, H.M., Carlson, J., Mjungu, D., Schmidt, Pl, Gaughan, C., Bushman, J.I., Schmidt, E., Bittinger, K., Collman, R.G., Hahn, B.H., Bushman, F.D. Allometry and ecology of the bilaterian gut microbiome , mBio, 9(2): 2018,pii: e00319-18. doi: 10.1128/mBio.00319-18.


Abass, A., Diamond, J.M., Chehoud, C., Chang, B., Kotzin, J.J., Young, J.C., Imai, I., Haas, A.R., Cantu, E., Lederer, D.J., Meyer, K., Milewski, K., Orthoff, K.M., Shaked, A., Christie, J.D., Bushman, F.D., Collman, R.G. The Perioperative Lung Transplant Virome: Torque Teno Viruses are Elevated in Donor Lungs and Show Divergent Dynamics In Primary Graft Dysfunction , Am. J. Transplantation, 17(5): 2017,1313-1324


Wetzel, K.S., Yi, Y., Elliott, S.T.C., Romero, D., Hahn, B.H., Muller-Trutwin, M., Apetrei, C., Pandrea, I., Collman, R.G. CXCR6-mediated SIVagmSab entry into Sabaeus African Green Monkey lymphocytes implicates widespread use of non-CCR5 pathways in natural host infections , J. Virology, 91(4): 2017


Yadav, A., Betts, M.R., Collman, R.G. Statin modulation of monocyte phenotype and function: implications for HIV-1 associated neurocognitive disorders , J. Neurovirology, 4(1): 2016,7


Kelly, B.J., Imai, I., Bittinger, K., Laughlin, A., Fuchs, B.D., Bushman, F.D., Collman, R.G. Composition and dynamics of the respiratory tract microbiome in intubated patients , Microbiome, 11(4): 2016,7


Elliott, S.T.C., Wetzel, K.S., Francella, N., Bryan, S., Romero, D., Riddick, N.E., Shaheen, F., Vanderford, T., Derdeyn, C.A., Silvestri, G., Paiardini, M., Collman, R.G. Dual-tropic CXCR6/CCR5 Simian Immunodeficiency Virus infection of Sooty Mangabey primary lymphocytes: Distinct coreceptor use in SIV natural versus pathogenic hosts , J. Virology, 89(18): 2015,9252-61


Young, J.C., Chehoud, C., Bittinger, K., Bailey, A., Diamond, J.M., Cantu, E., Abbas, A., Frye, L., Christie, J.D., Bushman, F.D., Collman, R.G. Viral metagenomics reveals blooms of anelloviruses in the respiratory tract of lung transplant recipients , Am. J. Transplantation, 15(1): 2015,200-9


Beck, J.M., Schloss, P.D., Venkataraman, A., Twigg III, H., Jablonski, K.A., Bushman, F.D., Campbell, T.B., Charlson, E.S., Collman, R.G., Crothers, K., Curtis, J.L., Drews, K.L., Flores, S.L., Fontenot, A.P. Foulkes, M.P., Frank, I., Ghedin, E., Huang, L., Lynch, S.V., Morri, A., Palmer, B.E., Schmidt, T.M., Sodergren, E., Weinstock, G.M., Young, VB., for the Lung HIV Microbiome Project. Multi-center Comparison of Lung and Oral Microbiomes of HIV-Infected and HIV-Uninfected Individuals. , Am. J. Respiratory Crit. Care Med., 192(11): 2015,1335-44