Barbara J Turner MD, MSEd is a practicing general internist-investigator at Keck School of Medicine of USC and Senior Advisor at the Gehr Center for Health Systems Science and Innovation. She has over 190 peer-reviewed publications from her research on health disparities, substance use, and health services research to advance primary care for vulnerable populations. She trained in medicine at the University of Pennsylvania where she rose to tenured professor. In 2010, she founded the Center for Research to Advance Community Health (ReACH) at University of Texas Health at San Antonio where she led federally funded projects addressing care for low income Latinos with hepatitis C, diabetes, and chronic pain. Since 2018, she has been a part-time Professor of Clinical Medicine at USC and serves as the American College of Physicians’ Deputy Editor for a collaboration with DynaMedex, an online clinical practice resource.
