Donald Singer
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Donald Robert James Singer, BMedBiol, MD, FRCP is president of the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine
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, Scotland
and attended schools in Iraq
, Bahrein, and Scotland
.
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
.
and other disorders of the heart and circulation, and public understanding of health. He is a co-author of the Pocket Prescriber, 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, the London Hypertension
Society [President 1990-2002], the British Pharmacological Society
, the West Midlands Physicians Association, the European Union of Medical Specialists, the European Association of Internal Medicine and the European Federation of Internal Medicine [EFIM]. He was a co-founder and founding Associate Editor of the EFIM journal, the European Journal for Internal Medicine. He is a member of the National Health Service
Health Technology Assessment Programme Pharmaceuticals Panel, 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 and Secretary of the European Association for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics
. 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.
of the Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine
for UK NHS
-related poets and the International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine. Singer, Michael Hulse
and Sorcha Gunne won the 2011 Times Higher Education Award for Excellence and Innovation in the Arts for the Hippocrates poetry and medicine initiative. This award aims to recognise the collaborative and interdisciplinary work within universities and their external partners to promote the arts..
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.
Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine
The Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine is a British non-profit organisation that was founded after World War I and pioneered the development of postgraduate educational programmes in all branches of medicine...
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Biography
He was born in ForresForres
Forres , is a town and former royal burgh situated in the north of Scotland on the Moray coast, approximately 30 miles east of Inverness. Forres has been a winner of the Scotland in Bloom award on several occasions...
, Scotland
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
and attended schools in Iraq
Iraq
Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
, Bahrein, and Scotland
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
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Medical career
Singer is professor of clinical pharmacologyClinical pharmacology
Clinical pharmacology is the science of drugs and their clinical use. It is underpinned by the basic science of pharmacology, with added focus on the application of pharmacological principles and methods in the real world...
and therapeutics at the graduate medical school of the University of Warwick
University of Warwick
The University of Warwick is a public research university located in Coventry, United Kingdom...
, where he was appointed in 2003. He was awarded Bachelor of Medical Biology and Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery
Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, or in Latin Medicinae Baccalaureus, Baccalaureus Chirurgiae , are the two first professional degrees awarded upon graduation from medical school in medicine and surgery by universities in various countries...
degrees from the University of Aberdeen
University of Aberdeen
The University of Aberdeen, an ancient university founded in 1495, in Aberdeen, Scotland, is a British university. It is the third oldest university in Scotland, and the fifth oldest in the United Kingdom and wider English-speaking world...
in 1975 and 1978 respectively, followed by the MD
Doctor of Medicine
Doctor of Medicine is a doctoral degree for physicians. The degree is granted by medical schools...
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
Hammersmith
Hammersmith is an urban centre in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in west London, England, in the United Kingdom, approximately five miles west of Charing Cross on the north bank of the River Thames...
Hospital, the Royal Postgraduate Medical School
Royal Postgraduate Medical School
The Royal Postgraduate Medical School was an independent medical school, based primarily at Hammersmith Hospital in west London. In 1988, the school merged with the Institute of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, and in 1997 became part of the Imperial College School of Medicine.-History:The medical school...
, and the Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School
Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School
Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School existed as a legal entity for 13 years, as the midpoint of a series of mergers which strategically consolidated the many small medical schools in west London into one large institution under the aegis of Imperial College LondonIn 1984, Charing Cross...
. 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
Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine
The Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine is a British non-profit organisation that was founded after World War I and pioneered the development of postgraduate educational programmes in all branches of medicine...
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Medical activities
His interests include new approaches to personalising medicine, chemical and genomic research for the discovery of medicines, prevention and treatment of hypertensionHypertension
Hypertension or high blood pressure is a cardiac chronic medical condition in which the systemic arterial blood pressure is elevated. What that means is that the heart is having to work harder than it should to pump the blood around the body. Blood pressure involves two measurements, systolic and...
and other disorders of the heart and circulation, and public understanding of health. He is a co-author of the Pocket Prescriber, 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
Hypertension
Hypertension or high blood pressure is a cardiac chronic medical condition in which the systemic arterial blood pressure is elevated. What that means is that the heart is having to work harder than it should to pump the blood around the body. Blood pressure involves two measurements, systolic and...
Society, the London Hypertension
Hypertension
Hypertension or high blood pressure is a cardiac chronic medical condition in which the systemic arterial blood pressure is elevated. What that means is that the heart is having to work harder than it should to pump the blood around the body. Blood pressure involves two measurements, systolic and...
Society [President 1990-2002], the British Pharmacological Society
British Pharmacological Society
The British Pharmacological Society is the professional association for pharmacologists in the UK.The society was formed when a group of pharmacologists met in Oxford, UK in 1931. The learned society aims to further education within Pharmacology and also organizes meetings of the world's most...
, the West Midlands Physicians Association, the European Union of Medical Specialists, the European Association of Internal Medicine and the European Federation of Internal Medicine [EFIM]. He was a co-founder and founding Associate Editor of the EFIM journal, the European Journal for Internal Medicine. He is a member of the National Health Service
National Health Service
The National Health Service is the shared name of three of the four publicly funded healthcare systems in the United Kingdom. They provide a comprehensive range of health services, the vast majority of which are free at the point of use to residents of the United Kingdom...
Health Technology Assessment Programme Pharmaceuticals Panel, member of Council and Chairman of the Committee of Heads of Clinical Pharmacology of the British Pharmacological Society
British Pharmacological Society
The British Pharmacological Society is the professional association for pharmacologists in the UK.The society was formed when a group of pharmacologists met in Oxford, UK in 1931. The learned society aims to further education within Pharmacology and also organizes meetings of the world's most...
and an Executive Committee member of the British Microcirculation Society and Secretary of the European Association for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics
European Association for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics
The European Association for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics has its origins in a working party in the early 1980s under the auspices of the World Health Organisation . After consultation across Europe a committee was created in 1993 chaired by Folke Sjöqvist with the remit to prepare the...
. 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
Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine
The Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine is a British non-profit organisation that was founded after World War I and pioneered the development of postgraduate educational programmes in all branches of medicine...
: Health Policy and Technology.
Poetry and medicine
He was co-founder in 2009 with Michael HulseMichael Hulse
Michael Hulse is an English translator, critic, and poet.-Life and Works:Hulse has translated over sixty books from the German, among them works by Goethe, Rilke, and Jakob Wassermann. He is nowadays most familiar as the translator of three of W. G. Sebald's books: The Emigrants, The Rings of...
of the Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine
Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine
The Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine was founded in 2009 by Donald Singer, a clinical professor, and poet and translator Michael Hulse...
for UK NHS
National Health Service
The National Health Service is the shared name of three of the four publicly funded healthcare systems in the United Kingdom. They provide a comprehensive range of health services, the vast majority of which are free at the point of use to residents of the United Kingdom...
-related poets and the International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine. Singer, Michael Hulse
Michael Hulse
Michael Hulse is an English translator, critic, and poet.-Life and Works:Hulse has translated over sixty books from the German, among them works by Goethe, Rilke, and Jakob Wassermann. He is nowadays most familiar as the translator of three of W. G. Sebald's books: The Emigrants, The Rings of...
and Sorcha Gunne won the 2011 Times Higher Education Award for Excellence and Innovation in the Arts for the Hippocrates poetry and medicine initiative. This award aims to recognise the collaborative and interdisciplinary work within universities and their external partners to promote the arts..
Other interests
He was formerly a trustee of the Richmond Orchestra, LondonLondon
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
and Ealing Junior Music School, London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
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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 MedicineFellowship of Postgraduate MedicineThe Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine is a British non-profit organisation that was founded after World War I and pioneered the development of postgraduate educational programmes in all branches of medicine...
- Postgraduate Medical JournalPostgraduate Medical JournalThe Postgraduate Medical Journal was established by the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine in 1925 . The Postgraduate Medical Journal continues to be the official journal of the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine...
- Health Policy and Technology