A Surgeon's Training, An Artist's Flair
Karen Singer earned her undergraduate degree at the prestigious Harvard University, graduating Magna Cum Laude with Highest Honors. After earning her MD at Harvard Medical School, she received training in general surgery in New York City at Roosevelt Hospital and at St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, New Jersey. Dr. Singer remained at St. Barnabas an additional two years to complete specialized training in plastic surgey.
She pursued her interest in hand surgery after being selected for a one-year fellowship at the University of Colorado Health Sciences in Denver. Dr. Singer is a member of an elite group of Bay Area physicians to have completed such a fellowship. She has been in practice in St. Petersburg, Pinellas Park and Largo since 1984.
Dr. Singer combines this formal training with an eye for form, proportion, design, color match, and symmetry, whether making noticeable changes or subtle refinements to her patients' appearance.
Dr. Singer is a native of New York and now resides in St. Petersburg. She is an accomplished ballroom dancer whose appreciation for grace, beauty, and form have helped her garner recognition in state and national dance competitions.
Dr. Singer is not only Board Certified, she is Board Certified in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.
Summary of Qualifications
Education
•Harvard Medical School
•Harvard University, Magna Cum Laude with Highest Honors
Post Graduate Training
•Hand Surgery Fellowship
•Denver, Colorado
Hospital Affiliations
•Bayfront Medical Center
•Belleair Surgi-Center
•Center for Special Surgery
•Edward White Hospital
•St. Anthony's Hospital
•Health South St. Petersburg Surgery Center
Previous Academic Positions
•Tampa Bay Society of Plastic &Reconstructive Surgeons
*President
•American Medical Women's Association
*President, Local Branch
•Bayfront Medical Center
*Chief of Plastic Surgery
*Chief of Hand Surgery
•All Children's Hospital
*Consultant in Children's Services
•University of Colorado
*Instructor, Dept. of Surgery
*Hand Surgery Fellowship
•College of Physicians & Surgeons of Columbia University
*Visiting Clinical Fellow
Certification
•American Board of Plastic Surgery
Residencies
•Plastic Surgery Residency
*Livingston, NJ
•General Surgery Residency
*New York, NY and Livingston, NJ
•Surgical Internship
*New York, NY
Professional Memberships
•American Society of Plastic Surgeons
•Southeastern Society of Plastic Surgeons
•Tampa Bay Society of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeons
•Pinellas County Medical Association
•American Medical Women's Association
•Harvard Medical Alumni Association
Honors
•Board of Governors, Pinellas County Medical Association
•Member, Who's Who Among Rising Young Americans
•2000 Notable American Women
•Personalities of America
•Presidential Scholar
•National Merit Scholar