Donald Singer

Donald Singer
Born	Forres, Morayshire, Scotland
Citizenship	British
Fields	Clinical pharmacology and Therapeutics
Institutions	University of Warwick

Donald Robert James Singer, BMedBiol, MD, FRCP is president of the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine.

Biography

He was born in Forres, Scotland and attended schools in Iraq, Bahrein, and Scotland.

Medical career

Singer is professor of clinical pharmacology and therapeutics at the graduate medical school of the University of Warwick, where he was appointed in 2003. He was awarded Bachelor of Medical Biology and Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery degrees from the University of Aberdeen in 1975 and 1978 respectively, followed by the MD degree in 1995. He served as Senior Lecturer/Consultant and then Reader at St George's Hospital Medical School from 1996–2003, having previously trained at the Aberdeen Teaching Hospitals, Hammersmith Hospital, the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, and the Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School. While at St George's, he held honorary research posts at the Harefield Heart Science Centre, a research facility of the National Heart and Lung Institute, a Division of the Faculty of Medicine of Imperial College. In 2007, Singer was elected president of the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine.

Medical activities

His interests include new approaches to personalising medicine, chemical and genomic research for the discovery of medicines, prevention and treatment of hypertension and other disorders of the heart and circulation, and public understanding of health. He is a co-author of the Pocket Prescriber,^[1] a paper and electronic guide on safe and effective use of medicines for health students and prescribers, in publication since 2004.

Singer has been active on many medical and professional committees, including for the British Hypertension Society,^[2] the London Hypertension Society [President 1990-2002],^{[3][4][5][6][7][8][9]} the British Pharmacological Society, the West Midlands Physicians Association,^[10] the European Union of Medical Specialists,^[11] the European Association of Internal Medicine^[12] and the European Federation of Internal Medicine [EFIM].^[13] He was a co-founder and founding Associate Editor of the EFIM journal, the European Journal for Internal Medicine.^[14] He is a member of the National Health Service Health Technology Assessment Programme Pharmaceuticals Panel,^[15] member of Council and Chairman of the Committee of Heads of Clinical Pharmacology of the British Pharmacological Society and an Executive Committee member of the British Microcirculation Society^[16] and Secretary of the European Association for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics.^[17] He is an honorary Fellow of the Finnish Society for Internal Medicine and the European Federation of Internal Medicine [EFIM]. He is also Chair of the Advisory Board for the new journal of the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine: Health Policy and Technology.

Poetry and medicine

He was co-founder in 2009 with Michael Hulse of the Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine for UK NHS-related poets and the International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine.^[18][19][20] This Hippocrates poetry and medicine initiative was short-listed in the 2011 Times Higher Education awards for excellence and innovation^[21].

Other interests

He was formerly a trustee of the Richmond Orchestra, London and Ealing Junior Music School, London.
In 2010 he co-founded Healthy Heart Awards for schools and colleges. The inaugural 2011 Healthy Heart Awards were organised by the Cardiovascular Research Trust, and supported by Heads, Teachers and Industry.

See also

• Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine
• Postgraduate Medical Journal
• Health Policy and Technology

References

1. ^ TRJ Nicholson and DRJ Singer. 2011 Pocket Prescriber. 4th Edition, 25th Feb 2011, Hodder Arnold ISBN 1444121871
2. ^ http://www.bhsoc.org/
3. ^ Singer, DRJ. Introduction to New themes in hypertension. re Proceedings of the 6th Annual Symposium of the London Hypertension Society. J Human Hypertension 1995;9:634-4. http://www.nature.com/jhh/index.html
4. ^ Singer, DRJ & Hughes, AD. Introduction to New themes in hypertension. Proceedings of the 7th Annual Symposium of the London Hypertension Society. J Human Hypertension 1996;10:375-6.
5. ^ Singer, DRJ, Cappuccio, FP, Hughes, AD. New themes in hypertension: introduction. Proceedings of the 8th Annual Symposium of the London Hypertension Society. Journal of Human Hypertension 1997; 11:551-552.
6. ^ Singer, DRJ, Cappuccio, FP, Hughes, AD. New themes in hypertension. 9th Annual Symposium of the London Hypertension Society. Journal of Human Hypertension 1999
7. ^ Singer, DRJ, Cappuccio, FP, Hughes, AD. Carter, ND. New themes in hypertension. 10th Annual Symposium of the London Hypertension Society. Journal of Human Hypertension 2000;14:359.
8. ^ Singer, DRJ, Cappuccio, FP, Hughes, AD. New themes in hypertension. 11th Annual Symposium of the London Hypertension Society. NMCD 2000;10:223. http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/704955/description#description
9. ^ Singer DRJ; Cappuccio FP; Carter ND; Hughes AD. New horizons in cardiovascular disease. 12th Annual Symposium of the London Hypertension Society. NMCD. 2001;11;285-286.
10. ^ http://www.wmpa.org.uk
11. ^ http://www.uems.net/
12. ^ www.fesemi.org/efim/que_es/que_es_la_efim.pdf
13. ^ http://www.efim.org
14. ^ http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09536205
15. ^ http://www.hta.ac.uk/about/people/panels/php.shtml
16. ^ Website of the British Microcirculation Society: http://www.microcirculation.org.uk/
17. ^ Website of the European Association for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics: http://www.eacpt.org
18. ^ D.R.J. Singer and M.W. Hulse. Poetry, medicine, and the International Hippocrates Prize. The Lancet 2010;375:976-977. http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2810%2960427-8/fulltext doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(10)60427-8
19. ^ Hulse M, Singer D, eds. The Hippocrates Prize 2010. The winning and commended poems. The Hippocrates Prize in association with Top Edge Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-9545495-5-8.
20. ^ Hulse M, Gunne S, Singer D, eds. The Hippocrates Prize 2011. The winning and commended poems. The Hippocrates Prize, 2011.
21. ^ http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/hybrid.asp?typeCode=581&pubCode=1&navcode=175

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