Associate Professor Turner completed medical training at UWA before studying at Oxford University and completing a Masters of Evidence-Based Medicine. His Ophthalmology training was undertaken in Melbourne. As Director of Lions Outback Vision, Associate Professor Turner is actively involved in the delivery of specialist outreach services to remote and Indigenous communities in the Kimberley, Pilbara, Goldfields, Midwest and Great Southern regions. As an Associate Professor at UWA, Dr Turner is actively engaged in a number of research projects at the LEI, focusing on service delivery for remote and Indigenous people. He is also a clinical lecturer for the Rural Clinical School at UWA and Notre Dame.
As Director of Outlook Vision, Dr Turner is involved in the delivery of specialist outreach services to remote and Indigenous communities in the Kimberley, Pilbara, Goldfields, Great Southern and South-West regions.
Dr Turner has joined the Albany Day Hospital team and conducts surgical lists once a month.
Scholarships and Awards
• NHMRC Scholarship 2008
• Rhodes Scholar 2002
• Bill Jackson Remote Health Medical Scholarship to Canada 1999
• J Flynn Remote Health Medical Scholarship to Christmas Island, 1996-2000
• Winthrop Scholarship to St George’s College
