also received numerous honors and awards, including the Silver Knight of Management Award, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, from the National Management Association in 1982; the Distinguished Service Award from the UCLA Medical Alumni Association in 1988, and the Distinguished Service and Leadership Award from the Harbor-UCLA Medical Centers Department of Medicine in 1991 and 1997.
He was a co-director of the Parasitic Disease Diagnostic Laboratory at LA BioMed, when it was still known as the Research and Education Institute. For four years, this laboratory examined all specimens collected by the Los Angeles County Health Department for parasitic disease diagnosis. In 1984, Dr. Turner opened Turner Parasitology, a private laboratory for diagnostic parasitology.
Dr. Turner also served as the chief of the Section of Parasitic Diseases in the Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center from 1973 until his retirement. Dr. Turner and his wife, Ellen, live across the street from UCLA in Westwood.
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