Lynn Twarog Singer

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2002

From left to right, Dr. Pedro  Delgado, Dr. Robert Findling, Dr. Lynn Singer, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur, Dr. Joseph Calabrese, Dr. Edward Hundert, Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones, Dr. John Ferry and Dr. Robert Ronis

Dedication is Great Success
Mind Matters Vol1, Issue 1
November 2002

UHC/CWRU Psychiatry Dept. Dedicates New Center of Excellence for Bipolar Disorder Supported with close to $2 million from US Govt. and UHC

CLEVELAND – University Hospitals of Cleveland and Case Western Reserve University held
a dedication ceremony of their new Center of Excellence for Care and Study of Children and Adults with Bipolar Disorder and Alcohol/ Drug Abuse on Oct. 15th, 2002 at the Rainbow Babies and Children Amphitheatre.
The dedication included remarks from the Honorable Marcy Kaptur, United States Representative, Ohio District 9, and the Honorable Stephanie Tubbs Jones, United States Representative, Ohio District 21.

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Cocaine in the Unborn
Explorations Summer 2002 PDF

When babies in the womb are exposed to cocaine, it impedes their cognitive development as children, but not their motor development, according to researchers at CWRU’s School of Medicine, MetroHealth Medical Center, and University Hospitals of Cleveland.
The study, which was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, looks at how prenatal cocaine exposure affects child development.

The researchers followed 415 cocaine-exposed infants born at MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland. They were compared to non-exposed infants in terms of cognitive and motor development until age two.

At 2 Years, Cocaine Babies Suffer Cognitive Development Effects
Researchers Also Find Tobacco Has Negative Effects On Motor Development

Medlines June 2002 PDF - (article only)

Scientists know the effects of cocaine on the adult brain and cardiovascular systems. Now there is a growing body of research documenting the effects of prenatal cocaine exposure
on infants, which is raising public health concerns about the long-term cognitive and developmental outcomes for these children.

A study published by the CWRU School of Medicine, MetroHealth Medical Center, and University Hospitals of Cleveland researchers in the April 17 issue of the Journal of the
American Medical Association, “Cognative and Motor Outcomes of Cocaine- Exposed Infants,” looks at how prenatal cocaine exposure affects child developmental outcomes.

In Ectasy's Wake
CWRU Magazine Spring 2002

Use of the drug MDMA, more commonly known as “ecstasy,” is widespread among young adults throughout Europe and is increasing in popularity among young people in the United States. Ecstasy, also called Adam, XTC, hug, beans, and love drug on the street, is a synthetic, psychoactive drug with both stimulant (amphetamine-like) and hallucinogenic (LSD-like) properties.

Researchers at CWRU’s School of Medicine and University Hospitals of Cleveland (UHC) are examining the long-term effects of ecstasy exposure on a developing fetus, as well as the physical and psychological effects ecstasy can have on a mother, which in turn may have consequences on her child-rearing abilities. They have received $2.5 million over five years from the National Institutes of Health for this first-of-its-kind study.

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Study shows cocaine babies suffer learning problems
Campus News April 25, 2002

Researchers at the School of Medicine and affiliated hospitals have found that prenatal cocaine exposure negatively affects a child's cognitive development but not motor development. Tobacco exposure has negative effects on motor development.

A study published by the School of Medicine, MetroHealth Medical Center and University Hospitals of Cleveland researchers in the Journal of the American Medical Association, "Cognitive and Motor Outcomes of Cocaine-Exposed Infants," looks at how prenatal cocaine exposure affects child developmental outcomes.

The study was conducted by Lynn T. Singer, Robert Arendt, Sonia Minnes, Ann Salvator and H. Lester Kirchner, all of the CWRU School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics; Kathleen Farkas, CWRU Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences; and Robert Kliegman, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wis.

Interim Leadership

Medical Bulletin Vol 8 No. 2

Jerold Goldberg, D.D.S., dean of the Case Western Reserve University School of Dentistry, is serving as interim dean of the medical school, effective July 1. He maintains his duties as dean of the dental school. Lynn T. Singer, Ph.D., vice provost for planning and assessment at CWRU, is serving as interim vice president for medical affairs. A national search is being conducted for a successor who will, once again, serve in both capacities, as Nathan A. Berger, M.D., did before assuming directorship of the new Center for Science, Health and Society at CWRU.

Dr. Singer also is a professor of pediatrics and psychiatry at the medical school, a staff psychologist at Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital, and an associate medical staff member at University Hospitals of Cleveland and MetroHealth Medical Center. Her research focuses on high-risk infancy conditions. She served as interim provost and university vice president when James W. Wagner, Ph.D., served as interim president of CWRU.
Dr. Singer received a master of arts degree in psychology and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology at CWRU, in 1978 and 1979, respectively. Previously, she had earned a bachelor of arts degree in French from Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, and an M.Ed. in learning disabilities and behavior disorders from the University of Pittsburgh.

Researchers study effects of drug “ecstasy”on developing fetus
MedLines January 2002 PDF

Use of the drug MDMA, more commonly known by its street name “ecstasy,” is widespread among young adults throughout Europe and is increasing in popularity among
young people in the United States. MDMA is a synthetic, psychoactive drug with both stimulant (amphet- amine-like) and hallucinogenic (LSD- like) properties. Other street names for it include Adam, XTC, hug, beans, and love drug.
Researchers at the CWRU School of Medicine and University Hospitals of Cleveland have received $2.5 million over five years from the National Institutes of Health for a
first-of-its-kind study: To examine the long-term effects of ecstasy exposure on a
developing fetus, as well as to examine the physical and psychological effects ecstasy
can have on a mother, which in turn may have consequences on her child-rearing
abilities.

The principal investigator is Lynn T. Singer, Ph.D., professor of pediatrics at CWRU and UHC. She and her colleagues in Cleveland will collaborate with researchers from the University of East London in Great Britain, who have developed an international
reputation for studies of ecstasy effects on adults. of infant outcomes, the study aims to assess environmental and maternal psychological factors on ecstasy-exposed children.

Celebrating Women Faculty
Medical Bulletin, Vol. 7, No. 2, 2001/2002

Wonder Women

April 16, Lynn Singer, Ph.D., was named vice provost for planning and assessment at Case Western Reserve University.
The Office of the Provost, as the chief academic budget and operating office for the university, provides leadership to support the scholarly enterprise of the university and plans and implements academic programs.

The principal duties of Dr. Singer's newly created position include institutional planning involving resource allocation and policy assessment and development; evaluating the structure and staffing of the university's School of Graduate Studies; coordinating activities related to the university's new ad hoc Committee on Postdoctoral Researchers; and implementing strategies to help ensure the university's continued accreditation.

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2001/2000

'Million Dollar Professors' Named
Medical Bulletin, Vol. 7, No. 2, 2001/2002

Forty-eight Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine faculty members each secured $1 million or more in federal research grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other sources for the 2000-2001 academic year in their quest to discover tomorrow's cures. They were honored at a Jan. 23 dinner, as were the newly designated "Soaring Eagles," those faculty who have been "Million Dollar Professors" for five or more years since the School of Medicine recognition program was begun.

For 14 consecutive years, the CWRU medical school has experienced growth in funds from the NIH, the nation's largest provider of medical research support. The school expects that soon-to-be-released figures for fiscal year 2001 will show this trend continuing, with the school having received $165 million in NIH funding during the year, again placing it first of all Ohio medical schools. The NIH awarded funds to faculty based at CWRU, University Hospitals of Cleveland, MetroHealth Medical Center, the Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit.

Front row, from left: Yu-Chung Yang, Ph.D.; Susan Redline, M.D., M.P.H.; Robert C. Elston, Ph.D.*; Robert P. Friedland, M.D.; Sana Loue, Ph.D.; Laura Siminoff, Ph.D.*; Karl F. Herrup, Ph.D.; Ellis D. Avner, M.D.; Pamela B. Davis, M.D., Ph.D.*; James M. Anderson, M.D., Ph.D.; Lynn Singer, Ph.D.; Claudio Fiocchi, M.D.
Middle row: Saul M. Genuth, M.D.; Sanford Markowitz, M.D., Ph.D.; Antonio Scarpa, M.D., Ph.D.*; Nathan A. Berger, M.D.*; Henri Brunengraber, M.D., Ph.D.; Stanton L. Gerson, M.D.*; Nancy L. Oleinick, Ph.D.*; James Kazura, M.D.*; Mitchell Drumm, Ph.D.; Kevin D. Cooper, M.D.; G. Hudson Taylor, Ph.D.; Clark W. Distelhorst, M.D.; Arthur M. Brown, M.D., Ph.D.
Back row: Michael A. Weiss, M.D., Ph.D.; Edward E. Medof, M.D., Ph.D.; Nanduri R. Prabhakar, Ph.D., D.Sc.*; Huntington F. Willard, Ph.D.*; E. Regis McFadden, M.D.*; Michael E. Lamm, M.D.; Timothy Kern, Ph.D.; John D. Porter, Ph.D.; W. Henry Boom, M.D.*; Clifford V. Harding III, Ph.D.; Scot Remick, M.D.; Alan D. Levine, Ph.D.
Not pictured: Janice Douglas, M.D.*; Pierluigi Gambetti, M.D.*; Richard W. Hanson, Ph.D.*; Terry J. Hassold, Ph.D.; Michael Lederman, M.D.*; Roland Moskowitz, M.D.; Joseph H. Nadeau, Ph.D.; Jane Olson, Ph.D.; Bryan Roth, M.D., Ph.D.; John R. Sedor, M.D.; James K.V. Willson, M.D.*. *= Soaring Eagle.
Medical Bulletin, Vol. 7, No. 2, 2001/2002
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Lynn Singer named vice provost for planning and assessment

Campus News 4-12-01

Provost James Wagner has appointed CWRU faculty member Lynn Singer to the new position of vice provost for planning and assessment. The appointment is effective April 16.

"I am pleased and honored to welcome a colleague of such stature and achievement to serve as my principal deputy in the provost's office," Wagner said.
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.
As vice provost, Singer will focus on "providing leadership for institutional research and other activities to support academic planning and assessment, for advising us on such matters as resource allocation for faculty and academic programs, and for representing me both internally and externally as needed," Wagner said in his announcement.

Singer is a double alumna of CWRU, receiving the M.A. and the Ph.D. in clinical psychology in 1978 and 1979, respectively. Previously she had earned a bachelor's degree from Duquesne University and the M.Ed. from the University of Pittsburgh.

1999

Mothers of very low birth-weight babies
have high levels of depression and stress
Medlines May 1999

In the first controlled study examining psychological stress experienced by mothers of very low birth-weight babies (VLBW) over time, CWRU School of Medicine researchers report finding that 13 percent of these mothers suffer severe levels of psychological distress right after the baby's birth, compared with one percent of mothers who delivered full-term babies. The study appeared in the March 3 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

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