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Revision as of 12:29, 13 January 2011
Professor Donald R. J. Singer, BMedBiol, MD, FRCP is President of the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine in England.
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 at the University of Warwick, appointed in 2003. He earned a Bachelor of Medical Biology degree and MB ChB degree from the University of Aberdeen in 1975 and 1978 respectively, followed by the MD higher 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, at the Hammersmith Hospital and the Royal Postgraduate Medical School and at the Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School of the University of London. 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 London. In 2007, Singer was elected President of the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine, publishers since 1925 of the Postgraduate Medical Journal.
His academic interests include new approaches to personalising medicine, chemical and genomic research for the discovery of medicines and prevention and treatment of disorders of the heart and circulation. 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 British Pharmacological Society, the National Health Service Health Technology Assessment Programme Pharmaceuticals Panel[3], the West Midlands Physicians Association[4], the European Union of Medical Specialists[5], the European Association of Internal Medicine[6] and the European Federation of Internal Medicine [EFIM][7]. He was a co-founder and founding Associate Editor of the EFIM journal, the European Journal for Internal Medicine[8]. He is a member of the External Affairs Committee of the British Pharmacological Society and a member of the Council of the European Association for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics[9].
He was co-founder in 2009 with Michael Hulse of the International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine[10][11]. He was formerly a trustee of the Richmond Orchestra[12] and Ealing Junior Music School[13].
He is an honorary Fellow of the Finnish Society for Internal Medicine and the European Federation of Internal Medicine [EFIM].
References
- ^ TRJ Nicholson and DRJ Singer. 2011 Pocket Prescriber. 4th Edition, 25th Feb 2011, Hodder Arnold ISBN-10: 1444121871
- ^ http://www.bhsoc.org/
- ^ http://www.hta.ac.uk/about/people/panels/php.shtml
- ^ http://www.wmpa.org.uk
- ^ http://www.uems.net/
- ^ www.fesemi.org/efim/que_es/que_es_la_efim.pdf
- ^ http://www.efim.org
- ^ http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09536205
- ^ http://www.eacpt.org
- ^ http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2810%2960427-8/fulltext doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(10)60427-8
- ^ 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.
- ^ http://www.richmondorchestra.org.uk/
- ^ tp://www.ejms.org.uk/