Duke Leadership Academy Scholars Profile

Lindsay Singler

Title: Director, Duke Clinical Research Institute
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Senior Management Area: Research Communications and Engagement
Class Year: 2024

Bio:
Lindsay Singler, MPH, is the Director of Research Communications & Engagement at the DCRI. In her role, she oversees stakeholder and patient outreach for DCRI-led programs and studies. In addition, she was the project leader of the organization's first direct-to-family pediatric lupus study, iPERSONAL, which is conducted in partnership with Science 37 and the FDA. She recently coauthored the paper "Bringing research directly to families in the era of COVID-19" in Pediatric Research, which profiles her experience. She brings more than a decade of experience in communications and patient engagement from Quintiles (now IQVIA) and the DCRI and authored the paper "Models of Engagement: Patients as Partners in Clinical Research" for Applied Clinical Trials. She offers regular consulting to government and industry sponsors on communications and engagement strategies for clinical research and co-founded the DCRI's Research Together initiative, which forms effective partnerships between patients, their caregivers, and researchers to deliver more participant centric studies. She has shared both her professional expertise and her lived experience as the mother of a child with a rare condition at national conferences and events. Prior to joining Duke, Lindsay held several leadership positions within IQVIA's health engagement and communications agency. Lindsay has a bachelor's degree in communications and master's in public heath from the prestigious Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.