Psychologist Andrew Turner has been selected as the new director of the WWAMI programs at the University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho, and Washington State University in Pullman, Wash. The UI/WSU WWAMI programs are under one administration. Turner also will be an assistant dean at the UW School of Medicine.
Turner succeeds Mike Laskowski in heading the first-year medical school program offered jointly at the two universities, as well as other efforts related to health careers recruitment, early clinical training, and medical student advising.
At present, Turner is dean of students at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, a clinical professor of psychology, and chair for the Wyoming WWAMI first-year course, Systems of Human Behavior. He is a University of Washington clinical professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, and on the adjunct faculty of the Family Practice Residency Program in Cheyenne.
Previously, he directed the University of Wyoming Counseling Center.
Turner trained as a psychologist at the University of Missouri-Columbia, where he earned his M.Ed. and Ph.D.
Turner has been developing training and service models of collaboration between rural primary-care providers and psychologists. His research and service interests include rural behavioral health issues and training, domestic violence prevention, post-traumatic stress disorders, under-age drinking and substance abuse, and multiculturalism in heath care.
Turner volunteered for several years in the Laramie Soup Kitchen and on the board of a local HIV education program. He and his wife, Judith Turner, a family nurse practitioner, have worked as providers and translators on international medical teams responding to natural disasters.
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July 18, 2003