About Me
Dr. Rupinder Singh is a physician who specializes in Geriatric Pelvic Medicine. Geriatric Pelvic Medicine is an emerging discipline and essentially encompasses the diagnosis and treatment of all types of neuromuscular disorders within the anatomic pelvis of both men and women. To that end, he completed an ACGME qualified fellowship in Geriatric Pelvic Medicine which was jointly sponsored by both the Sinai Hospital of Baltimore and the University of Maryland. Not uncommonly, his pre-requisite medical training was completed in Internal Medicine. The specific residency training program was a combined program based out of Johns Hopkins University in association with Sinai Hospital of Baltimore. Dr. Singh’s academic training is highly focused and helps define him but in so many ways, it harnesses his academic creativity and brings it to a culmination to help make the Maryland Institute for pelvic NeuroScience (MIpNS) uniquely well suited for dealing with these most complicated pelvic medicine cases.
So, to begin, Dr. Singh received his Bachelors degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Maryland in College Park. During his senior year, he was an apprentice at the Human Factors Lab at the University of Maryland where he became involved with a team of people focused on medical devices. Subsequently, he was formally hired as a reviewer for medical patents at the U.S. Patent office. Dr. Singh stayed there until he could not deny his true love for medical science. To that end, he was called by some family friends and mentor physicians back to his home town in India to start formal medical training at KMC Medical College.
While in medical school he was at the top of his class in Pathophysiology and Immunology. Subsequently, he became immersed in the immunologic basis for disease especially as it related to the urinary tract and kidneys. Not surprisingly, as Dr. Singh continued to do well and graduated with honors before committing to begin his post doctoral work here in the U.S. at the Sinai Hospital of Baltimore. Sinai has a combined program with Johns Hopkins University and Dr. Singh was admitted as a part of the Internal Medicine class of 2013. During his time as a resident, Dr. Singh pursued issues that were emerging here in U.S. facilities. Not the least of which was CAUTI or Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infection. To that end, he worked closely with Dr. John Cmar in Infectious Disease to try to help develop protocols to combat this issue. It was at this time that he realized that CAUTI was really a multi-factorial problem and that many of the considerations and concerns in attempting to get it under control were not centered in Infectious Disease but actually more closely related to microscopic anatomy and the dynamics of voiding, both of which really fall under the purview of “Pelvic Medicine”. To that end, when Dr. Singh entered his second year of residency, he requested a rotation with Dr. Gordon in Geriatric Pelvic Medicine where he continued his work on CAUTI and ultimately, he was asked to write the chapter on UTI in the textbook “Pelvic Medicine & Surgery in the Elderly” where Dr. Gordon is the lead editor. The text is published by Springer and is scheduled for release in December of 2016.
Finally, after graduation from the combined Internal Medicine program at Sinai Hospital & Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Singh was accepted into the Geriatric Pelvic Medicine Fellowship at Sinai Hospital. During his time as a fellow, Dr. Singh continued to add to his list of accomplishments. He rewrote the protocol for the CAUTI program at multiple facilities within the LifeBridge and Future Care Systems. In addition, he is helping to redefine guidelines for UTI between chronic and acute care facilities as well as trying to develop guidelines for urodynamic testing within chronic and acute care settings.
