Professor, Duke School of Nursing
Senior Nurse Scientist, Duke Clinical Research Unit
barbara.turner@duke.edu
Dr. Turner completed her undergraduate degree in nursing
and graduate degrees in perinatal nursing and hospital administration.
Her doctoral degree is from University of California - San
Francisco, in physiologic nursing. She served
for 25 years on active duty in the United States Army
as a nurse, researcher, and hospital administrator. Dr. Turner
retired in the rank of Colonel while serving as consultant to
the Surgeon General of the Army for nursing research - overseeing
nursing research at 65 medical treatment facilities worldwide.
From 1993- 2005 she served as the associate dean for research
at the Duke University School of Nursing and the director of
the nursing research center. Her research interests have focused
on the physiologic responses of prematurely born infants to variations
in airway management and ventilation techniques. She has 30 years
experience as an active member of Institutional Review Boards
at 5 major medical centers with a special interest in the ethical
issues surrounding research on prematurely born infants. Her
teaching interests include research, neonatal physiology/pathophysiology,
and management of prematurely born infants.
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