Dr. Turchin is Director of Informatics Research and Director of Quality in Diabetes at the Division of Endocrinology at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Turchin is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Medical Informatics). He studies quality and outcomes of care of patients with chronic endocrine conditions using advanced electronic medical record data analytics. His particular interest is in computational extraction of information from text (natural language processing) for use in clinical research; his group makes a publicly available software platform (Canary; http://canary.bwh.harvard.edu/) for this purpose.
Dr. Turchin is a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics and has published over 80 papers and book chapters; his research has been funded by AHRQ, NIH and private foundations. Dr. Turchin is a former Chair of AcademyHealth Health Information Technology Interest Group. He currently serves on the Endocrine Society Quality Improvement Subcommittee and on the AHRQ Health Information Technology study section; he is also the founding Chair of the Healthcare Delivery and Quality Improvement Interest Group at the American Diabetes Association.