{"id":12834,"date":"2022-01-26T08:00:04","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T14:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/?p=12834"},"modified":"2022-01-19T10:42:27","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T16:42:27","slug":"pediatric-cardiologist-at-stanford-credits-tech-for-giving-him-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/2022\/people\/pediatric-cardiologist-at-stanford-credits-tech-for-giving-him-opportunity\/","title":{"rendered":"Pediatric cardiologist at Stanford credits Tech for giving him opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Collins, `98 chemistry, says a person with his background is more likely to move to the moon than become a pediatric cardiologist at Stanford\u2019s Lucile Packard Children\u2019s Hospital. But that\u2019s exactly what he did, and he credits Tennessee Tech for giving him the opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>Collins grew up in Morgan County, one of the perennially lowest-income, least-educated counties in Tennessee. His father dropped out of high school, and his mother worked at a local prison.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know that it ever occurred to me that guys like me, from where I\u2019m from, aren\u2019t supposed to do the things that I\u2019ve done,\u201d said Collins. \u201cBut here I am, a doctor on the faculty at Stanford.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now, Collins has chosen to give back to his alma mater. He and his wife Missy established the Future Leader in Healthcare Scholarship for students majoring in a healthcare field. Collins says he wants students considering Tech to know that they can do anything and go anywhere with a Tech education.<\/p>\n<p>Read full story here:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tntech.edu\/univadv\/cac\/ttut-featured-alumni-pages\/tom-collins.php\">Tech Took Us There &#8211; Tom Collins (tntech.edu)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Collins, `98 chemistry, says a person with his background is more likely to move to the moon than become a pediatric cardiologist at Stanford\u2019s Lucile Packard Children\u2019s Hospital. But that\u2019s exactly what he did, and he credits Tennessee Tech for giving him the opportunity. Collins grew up in Morgan County, one of the perennially [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[23,24,22],"class_list":{"0":"post-12834","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-people","8":"tag-facstaff","9":"tag-rs","10":"tag-student"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/01\/2022-01-18_61e742bc1999e_ttut-collins.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12860,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12834\/revisions\/12860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}