The appointment is effective April 16.
Singer is a professor of pediatrics and psychiatry.
She has been a staff psychologist at Rainbow Babies and Childrens Hospital since 1981, and she will remain in that position, too. Singer also is an associate medical staff member at both University Hospitals of Cleveland and MetroHealth Medical Center, and from 1994-98 was Director of the Center for the Advancement of Mothers and Children at MetroHealth. Her very considerable research record focuses on health problems faced by children and families. She will work half time as vice provost, and will devote the remainder of her time to continuing her work in the School of Medicine. Singer is a double alumna of CWRU, receiving the M.A. and the Ph.D. in clinical psychology in 1978 and 1979, respectively.