Rate My Professor Joseph Turner

Dr. Joseph V. Turner serves as Senior Lecturer in the School of Rural Medicine within the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of New England. A qualified GP Obstetrician and Rural Generalist, he holds the degrees MBBS, BMedSc(Hons), PhD, DRANZCOG(Adv), FRACGP-RG, FARGP, and FACRRM. His additional training encompasses reproductive health, skin cancer medicine, clinical teaching, and rural/remote and emergency medicine. Prior to pursuing medicine, Turner earned his PhD in pharmacokinetics and served as a lecturer in the Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Sydney. He is a founding Director of the Australasian Institute for Restorative Reproductive Medicine and holds an honorary Senior Lecturer position in the Rural Clinical School and Faculty of Medicine at the University of Queensland. Turner contributes to medical education through the Joint Medical Program, supervises research students across multiple universities, and evaluates doctors for the Australian Medical Council.

Turner's academic interests focus on reproductive options and autonomy, particularly progesterone-after-mifepristone interventions, fertility awareness methods (FAMs/FABMs), infertility, natural family planning, bioethics, and structure-activity as well as structure-pharmacokinetic relationships. He teaches clinical examination skills, general practice, research methodologies for medical professionals, women’s and reproductive health, and pregnancy care. Notable publications include "Congenital and fetal effects after mifepristone exposure and continuation of pregnancy: a systematic review" (Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics, 2024), "Progesterone after mifepristone: A pilot prospective single arm clinical trial for women who have changed their mind after commencing medical abortion" (Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Research, 2024), "Challenging misleading information about ‘abortion reversal’" (BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health, 2024), and "Relationship Between Steroid Hormone Profile and Premenstrual Syndrome in Women Consulting for Infertility or Recurrent Miscarriage" (Reproductive Sciences, 2024). Earlier contributions feature pharmacokinetic modeling, such as "Bioavailability prediction based on molecular structure for a diverse series of drugs" (Pharmaceutical Research, 2004), and authored books including "Quantitative structure-pharmacokinetic relationships: Artificial neural network modeling" (2008).