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Anne M. Turner
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor, Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education

Research Interests:
Public health workforce information workflow; public health digital libraries; natural language processing to access to public health gray literature

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Contact Information

email:   amturner@u.washington.edu

address:
Northwest Center for Public Health Practice
1107 NE 45th Street, Suite 400
Seattle, WA 98105

campus box:   354809
voice:   206-221-3615

Education

MPH   University of Washington, 2005   (Health Services, Medical Informatics)
MLIS   University of Washington, 2001   (Information Sciences)
MD   Brown University, 1985   (Medicine)
BS   University of California (Irvine), 1981   (Biology)

Teaching   (Department of Health Services Courses)

Recent Publications



Turner AM, Reeder B, Ramey J. Scenarios, personas and user stories: User-centered evidence-based design representations of communicable disease investigations. J Biomed Inform. 2013 Apr 22. doi:pii: S1532-0464(13)00049-X. 10.1016/j.jbi.2013.04.006. [Epub ahead of print]  PMID: 23618996
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Turner AM, Kirchhoff K, Capurro D. Using crowdsourcing technology for testing multilingual public health promotion materials. J Med Internet Res. 2012 Jun 4;14(3):e79.  PMID: 22664384
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Reeder B, Turner AM. Scenario-based design: a method for connecting information system design with public health operations and emergency management. J Biomed Inform. 2011 Dec;44(6):978-88. Epub 2011 Jul 23.  PMID: 21807120    PMCID: PMC3226920
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Kirchhoff K, Turner AM, Axelrod A, Saavedra F. Application of statistical machine translation to public health information: a feasibility study. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2011 Jul 1;18(4):473-8. Epub 2011 Apr 15.  PMID: 21498805    PMCID: PMC3128406
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DeShazo J, Harris L, Turner A, Pratt W. Designing and remotely testing mobile diabetes video games. J Telemed Telecare. 2010;16(7):378-82. Epub 2010 Aug 2.  PMID: 20679406
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External Funding (sampling of recent awards from UW SAGE data)

Addressing the Personal Health Information Management Needs of Older Adults
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
PI:   Turner           Dates:    12/1/2013 - 11/30/2018

Simulation training to improve 911 dispatcher identification of cardiac arrest
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
PI:   Meischke           Dates:    8/1/2013 - 7/31/2014

Simulation training to improve 911dispatcher identification of cardiac arrest
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
PI:   Meischke           Dates:    10/1/2012 - 9/30/2015

Northwest Preparedness and Emergency Response Learning Center
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
PI:   Allan           Dates:    9/30/2011 - 9/29/2012

Extending Emergency Response Skills to Limited English Proficiency Communties
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
PI:   Meischke           Dates:    9/30/2011 - 9/29/2012

Improving capacity to effectively engage and communicate with LA communities before and during public health emergencies
Public Health Foundation Enterprises (PHFE)
PI:   Allan           Dates:    6/10/2011 - 7/31/2011

Northwest Preparedness and Emergency Response Learning Center
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
PI:   Allan           Dates:    9/30/2010 - 9/29/2015

Improving access to multi-lingual health information through machine translation
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
PI:   Turner           Dates:    7/1/2010 - 6/30/2015

Biomedical and Health Informatics Training Program
National Library of Medicine (NLM)
PI:   Tarczy-hornoch           Dates:    7/1/2010 - 6/30/2011

Biomedical and Health Informatics Training Program
National Library of Medicine (NLM)
PI:   Tarczy-hornoch           Dates:    7/1/2007 - 6/30/2012