EAST WINDSOR William M. Singer, M.D., died July 28 at home.
Born in New York City to the late Edna and Sid Singer, Dr. Singer was an East Windsor resident since 1978.
Dr. Singer received a bachelor’s degree in biology from the City College of New York and his M.D. from Albany Medical College in 1969. He interned at Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, and was a resident in psychiatry at St. Vincent’s Hospital, New York, from 1970 to 1973.
Dr. Singer served as a major in the Army Medical Corps from 1973 to 1975, stationed in the Panama Canal Zone. He was the Gorgas Hospital staff psychiatrist and chief forensic psychiatric consultant to Gamboa Prison. During his years of service he was a lecturer in psychiatry at the National Psychiatric Hospital of the University of Panama. He was awarded the Army Commendation Medal in 1975.
Dr. Singer served as the director of the Adult Psychiatry Inpatient Service at Jersey City Medical Center; chief psychiatric consultant at the Jewish Hospital and Rehabilitation Center, Jersey City; review physician for the N.Y. Division of Disability Determinations; a clinical instructor in psychiatry at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of N.J.; and was in private practice in Jersey City. He was board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.
He is survived by a sister, Andrea Sonn of East Windsor; two nephews, Adam and Daniel Sonn of King of Prussia, Pa.; an aunt and uncle, Lynn and Dr. Carl Schiller of New York; an aunt, Connie Dubins of Boca Raton, Fla.; uncles Ira Singer of Ballston Lake, N.Y., and Stanley Singer of Florida; and 12 cousins.
At his direction Dr. Singer’s remains were donated to further medical research at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Robert Wood Johnson Medical School conducts a memorial service for the families and friends of donors each spring.
Contributions in Dr. Singer’s memory may be made to the American Cancer Society.
