Professor of Internal Medicine
Department of Internal Medicine
School of Medicine
Executive Director
Department of Student Health
Executive Director
National Social Norms Institute
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia

Education/History
James C. Turner, MD, received his medical degree from the University of Wisconsin Medical School in Madison and completed an internal medicine residency at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. After 7 years of practice that included the Indian Health Service in Arizona and general internal medicine in Wisconsin, Dr. Turner entered college health in 1985.

He first became a director of student health at the University of South Carolina in Columbia in 1988 and has served as Executive Director of the Department of Student Health at the University of Virginia since 1993. In this capacity, Dr. Turner has overseen the expansion of the health service to include counseling and disability services, the implementation of alcohol education programs using social norms marketing, the initiation of JCAHO ambulatory care accreditation, and the implementation of electronic health records. He has been on the Admissions Committee at the School of Medicine since 2003 and a member of University workgroups on severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), HIV/AIDS, alcohol abuse, and smallpox vaccination. He has also provided several scholarly presentations at regional and national meetings on these and other topics and has several appearances nationally and regionally on radio and television discussing health issues that affect college students. Dr. Turner served on Governor Mark Warner's Task Force on Cervical Cancer in the Commonwealth of Virginia in 2005.

Professional Society Affiliations
Dr. Turner is President-Elect of the American College Health Association (ACHA), and served as the Chair of the association's Vaccine Preventable Disease Committee from 1999 to 2008. He is currently Liaison Representative of ACHA on the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ACIP writes all national guidelines for immunizations in the United States. Finally, he recently completed a two year term as a member of the Board of Trustees for the Bacchus Network in Denver, CO.

Publications/Editorial Experience
Dr. Turner has published over thirty articles in such peer-reviewed journals as Clinical Infectious Diseases, the Journal of the American Medical Association, the Journal of Clinical Microbiology, the Journal of American College Health, and the Journal of Studies on Alcohol. Turner has also served as the editor of Guidelines for Preparing the University for SARS and Recommended Institutional Pre-Matriculation Immunizations, both published by the American College Health Association. In addition to serving as an invited reviewer for the Medical Letter and MMWR, Turner has published a number of articles in the lay press and higher education periodicals.

Research Interests
Dr. Turner's research interests include epidemiology of streptococcal infections, impact of health education on sexual behaviors, alcohol-related emergency room visits, value of blood alcohol concentration in predicting negative outcomes, and the impact of campus alcohol education programs on negative consequences. This latest project was a focus of a National Public Radio feature October 24, 2008.

Current Position/Responsibilities
Dr. Turner serves as Executive Director of the Department of Student Health and the National Social Norms Institute at the University and is a Professor of Internal Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine.