Donald Robert James Singer (20 August 1954 – 11 June 2022) was a British clinical pharmacologist who was the president of the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine.
He was chair of the advisory board of Health Policy and Technology[24] and a consulting editor for Clinical Therapeutics[25] He was a member of the Healthcare Professionals' Working Party of the European Medicines Agency.
[26] He has worked as a clinical pharmacologist on the Human Resources for Health Programme for Rwanda[27] advising on systems for pharmacovigilance and organizing an International Symposium on Medicines and Patient Safety held in Kigali in November 2014 in partnership with Pharmacology for Africa[28] and IUPHAR.
[30][31][32] 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.
[41] The inaugural 2011 Healthy Heart Awards were organised by the Cardiovascular Research Trust[42][failed verification] and supported by "Heads, Teachers and Industry".