Gregory Turner

GREGORY H. TURNER, Ed.D., MBA, MPH is a research assistant professor in the School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh. He has worked with the School of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, the Pittsburgh Board of Education, and several non-profit organizations. As a member of the Reading First External Evaluation Project, a multidisciplinary team comprised of special education and reading education researchers, his current work focuses on the area of professional development and the work of Reading First literacy coaches with classroom teachers. The goal of the Project is the evaluation of the implementation and effects of the Reading First initiative in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania of scientifically-based reading research toward the improvement of classroom instructional strategies and student learning of reading. He co-authored articles in medical education that were published in two peer reviewed journals, Pain Medicine and the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. These articles, were written to encourage geriatric clinician educators to include research-based chronic pain screening practices in the labyrinth of their instruction of future practitioners in order to improve the identification and management of pain, a glaring gap in the care of older adult patients. Mr. Turner received his B.A. and M.P.H degrees from the University of Illinois, Chicago, his M.B.A. degree from Loyola University of Chicago, and his Ed.D. from the University of Pittsburgh.