Biography

Peter A. Singer, M.D., is currently Professor of Clinical Medicine, and Chief of Clinical Endocrinology, Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. Dr. Singer was born and raised in San Francisco, and received his medical degree from the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF). He then did a rotating internship at Los Angeles County General Hospital (now, LAC+USC Medical Center), followed by two years in military service, including a year as a battalion doctor in Viet Nam. After the service he returned to Los Angeles and completed a medical residency and endocrine fellowship at USC. Dr. Singer has had an active clinical practice for 40 years, with an emphasis on thyroid conditions. He has approximately 100 peer reviewed publications, book chapters, and abstracts. Dr. Singer is Past President (2002-2003) of the American Thyroid Association, and has been on the Board of Directors of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) since 2008. In 2004 he received the Outstanding Clinical Endocrinologist Award from AACE. Dr. Singer spends his “spare time” as Chairman of the Board of East Meets West (www.eastmeetswest.org), and in 2011 was honored by the Ministry of Health of Viet Nam for his more than 20 years of humanitarian assistance to that country. Peter Singer is married to Marjorie Kagawa, who is Professor of Public Health and Asian American Studies at UCLA. Despite the academic and athletic rivalry between USC and UCLA, Peter and Margie have managed to set aside their differences, and have two grown kids, a son who is Assistant Professor of Medicine at UCSF, and a daughter who is expecting Margie and Peter’s second grand child.

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