Pierre Singer

Pierre Singer is a French-Israeli physician specializing in intensive care, metabolism, and clinical nutrition. He is the past Chair of the Eduarda and Dr. Moshe Ishay Institute for the Study of the Effects of Natural Food on the Quality of Life and Human Health at Tel Aviv University, Emeritus Full Professor in Anesthesia and Intensive Care at the Tel Aviv University and current Full Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the Reichman University.

Early life and education Born in France, Singer completed his medical training at the Louis Pasteur Faculty of Medicine in Strasbourg, France. He is board certified in Gastroenterology-Hepatology-Nutrition and in Intensive Care Medicine.

Career Since 1995, Singer has served as the Director of the General Intensive Care Department at Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Campus, in Petach Tikva, Israel until 2022 and has led the Institute of Nutrition Research at Rabin Medical Center since 2006. Additionally, he headed the Eduarda and Dr. Moshe Ishay Institute for the Study of the Effects of Natural Food on the Quality of Life and Human Health at Tel Aviv University and directed the Laboratory of Nutrition and Metabolism Research at the Felsenstein Medical Research Center. He was President of the Israel Society of Intensive Care Medicine (2000-2004) and of the Israel Society for Clinical Nutrition (ISCN) from 2005-2009 as well as currently. He was President, Treasurer, Chairman of the European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPEN) (2010-2014), He is now acting as the head of the Intensive Care Unit at the Herzliya Medical Center in Herzlia and works also as Medical Officer at ART MEDICAL.

Editorial Singer serves as Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Nutrition Open Access and holds editorial positions with several journals, including Intensive Care Medicine, Clinical Nutrition, Nutrition, Nutrition in Clinical Practice, and JPEN.

Research work Singer’s research focuses on metabolism and nutrition in critically ill patients, as well as applications of artificial intelligence in these fields. He has published more than 300 peer reviewed papers and has H-Index of 74. He is cited more than 14 times/day. He has presented hundreds of lectures around the world. He has co-authored the ESPEN guidelines on nutrition in the intensive care unit (2019 and 2023) and teaching modules on the same topic. He is the head of the Special Interest group on Nutrition in the ICU in ESPEN.

Book Singer, Pierre (2013). Nutrition in intensive care medicine: beyond physiology. Basel: Paris Karger. ISBN 978-3318022278.