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Associate Professor
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Dr. Turner is an Associate Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Director of the Vanderbilt Smell and Taste Center, and Associate Director of Research in the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. He completed both his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees at the Medical University of South Carolina. He subsequently completed a residency in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and a fellowship in Rhinology and Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery at Stanford University. Dr. Turner developed an active NIH-supported translational research program after joining the Vanderbilt faculty in 2012 with primary interests in the immunology of chronic rhinosinusitis and mechanisms of olfactory loss. His clinical practice is focused on management of inflammatory sinus disease and skull base neoplasms. The Vanderbilt Sinonasal Diseases Research Lab is directed by Dr. Turner and performs basic and translational research into chronic inflammatory airway diseases such as chronic rhinosinusitis, allergic rhinitis, and asthma, and investigates basic mechanisms of olfactory loss in humans. The lab has been awarded more than 4 million dollars in NIH funding.