Faculty

Dr. Turner is a general pediatrician and professor in the Department of Pediatrics and Human Development. She enjoys all aspects of caring for children and youth and has a special interest in working with children who have chronic health conditions including autism and other neurodevelopmental disabilities. She has served on the faculty of the College of Human Medicine for more than 20 years as teacher, clinician and administrator. Dr. Turner is co-Director of Michigan’s Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities program, an interdisciplinary graduate-level program involving six Michigan universities.  She went to medical school at the Oregon Health Sciences University and completed a pediatric residency at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh.