Interests:
Public health informatics, older adult decision making and personal health information management, designing discrete choice experiment tools for older adults with dementia and their caregivers, information needs assessments for public health, public health workflow and evaluation of public health information technologies, improving language access/ use of informatics methods to improve communication with Limited English Proficiency populations, human centered design, qualitative methods.
Background:
Dartmouth-Brown Program in Medicine, MD, Graduated 1985
Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, Pediatrics, 1988
Seattle Children’s Hospital/ Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research, Center, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, 1994
ISchool, MLIS, University of Washington, 2001
NLM Biomedical Informatics Fellowship, OHSU, 2005
School of Public Health, MPH, 2005
Research:
Improving Access to Multilingual Health Information Through Machine Translation, NLM R01, Turner & Kirchhoff, PIs
SOARING: Studying Older Adults and Researching their Information Needs and Goals, AHRQ R01, Turner, PI
SHARE-NW, OMH, Co-investigator
PEARLS Equity, CDC, Co-Investigator
Decision-making in Alzheimer’s Research (DMAR). NIA R01, Turner, PI
Current projects:
Decision-making in Alzheimer’s Research (NIA-R01) – Turner, PI
SHARE-NW (OMH) Bekemeier, PI
PEARLS Equity (CDC), Hannon, PI
Other Roles:
Advisory Board. Health Systems and Population Health, HIHIM Program
Past Chair, AMIA Academic Forum
Teaching:
BIME 533 Public Health and Informatics
BIME 530 Introduction to Biomedical and Health Informatics
Representative publications:
Turner, A.M., Brownstein, M., Cole, K., Karasz, H and Kirchhoff, K. Modeling workflow translation to design machine translation applications for public health practice. J of Biomed Inform. 2015; 16: 136-146. doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2014.10.005 PMID: 25445922
Hartzler, A., Demiris, G., Osterhage, K., Phelan, E., Thielke, S. and Turner, A.M. Managing personal health information in pursuit of healthy aging: Insights from older adults on the importance of wellness. Informatics for Health and Social Care, 2017 43:3, 320-333, DOI: 10.1080/17538157.2017.1297815
Valenta, A.L., Berner, E.S., Boren, S.A., Deckard, G.J. … Turner, A.M., Tusch, G., Williamson, J.J. and Johnson, S.B. AMIA Board White Paper: AMIA 2017 core competencies for applied health informatics education at the master’s degree level. JAMIA 18 Dec 1;25(12):1657-1668. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocy132. PMID:3037186
Taylor, J.O., Turner, A.M., Hartzler, A.L., Osterhage, K.P., Demiris, G. Monitoring for change: the roles of friends and family in helping older adults manage personal health information. JAMIA. 2018 Aug 1; 25(8):989-999. Doi 10.1093/jamia/ocy037
Bekemeier B, Park S, Backonja U, Ornelas I, Turner AM. Data, capacity-building, and training needs to address rural health inequities in the Northwest United States: a qualitative study. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2019 Aug 1;26(8-9):825-834. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocz037. PMID: 30990561; PMCID: PMC7647197.
(Highlighted in AMIA Year in Review for key paper in the field of Public Health Informatics)
Turner, A.M. Taylor, J.O., Hartzler, A.L., Osterhage, K.A., Bosold, A.L. Painter, I.S., Demeris, G. Personal health information management among healthy older adults: varying needs and approaches. JAMIA (Special Diana Forsythe Issue ). 2020 28(2), 2021, 197–208doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocaa33.
Sharma, R, Teng, A, Asirot, M,Taylor JO, Borson, S, Turner, AM. Challenges and opportunities in conducting research with older adults with dementia during Covid-19 and beyond. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2022 May;70(5):1306-1313. doi: 10.1111/jgs.17750. Epub 2022 Mar 21. PMID: 35285942; PMCID: PMC9106837