Dr. Nancy Collop graduated summa cum laude from Edinboro State University in Edinboro, Pennsylvania. She was the first graduate from the All College Honors Program and the recipient of the Dean Weller Award for Outstanding Student in the Health Sciences. Dr. Collop then earned her medical degree at Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, where she was awarded the Roche Clinical Psychiatry Research Award and was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society. Dr. Collop completed her internal medicine internship and residency at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia and a pulmonary/critical care fellowship at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. She was a recipient of the Research Fellowship Award from the American Lung Association of Florida.

Currently an associate professor of medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Dr. Collop is the medical director of The Johns Hopkins Hospital Sleep Disorders Laboratory. She has been awarded several honors including “Best Doctors in America”, Baltimore’s “Top Doctor” in pulmonary and critical care medicine and sleep medicine, the Al Soffer Award for Editorial Excellence (American College of Chest Physicians), Distinguished Alumna for Natural Sciences (Edinboro University), and the Helmut S. Schmidt Award (American Board of Sleep Medicine).

Dr Collop has served on the American Board of Sleep Medicine Board of Directors since 1998 and currently serves as president. She also serves for the American Board of Internal Medicine on the Sleep Medicine Examination Committee as well as a Pulmonary SEP committee, is on the board of directors of the American Sleep Medicine Foundation and the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. Dr. Collop is an associate editor of the journal Chest and serves on the editorial board of Pulmonary Reviews. Her research interests include diagnostic testing for sleep-disordered breathing and standards for polysomnography.

Certifications

• American Board of Internal Medicine certification in Pulmonary, Critical Care and Internal Medicine
• Diplomate, American Board of Sleep Medicine