The Mississippi State Department of Health issued the following statement.
Justin Turner, M.D., has joined the Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH) in the role of chief medical officer.
Turner is an internal medicine physician and the CEO of Turner Care, LLC. He currently serves on the COVID-19 Task Forces for the Mississippi State Medical Association (MSMA) and the City of Jackson.
A resident of Madison, he is a 2003 graduate of Jackson State University and a 2008 graduate of Meharry Medical College. He completed his residency at the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC).
Turner has served as medical director for several hospice services in the Jackson Metro area, including Specialty Hospice – an organization serving several under-represented communities throughout the state. He has also served as the Vice Chief of Internal Medicine at St. Dominic Hospital, and the medical director for Walk of Faith Ministry.
“Dr. Turner will be a tremendous addition to our staff,” said MSDH State Health Officer
Dr. Dan Edney. “He’s highly respected in his field and very involved in the community. Service is not just what he does – it’s who he is.”
He has been recognized for numerous awards, including the 2022 inaugural Mississippi Children’s Museum Community Service Award, the 2021 Dr. Axel Hanson Distinguished Physician Award from Meharry Medical College, the 2020 Dr. James Waites Leadership Award from the MSMA, as well as being named a 2021 National Top 40 Under 40 Health Leader by the National Minority Quality Forum, and the Best Doctor of Jackson for 2018, 2020 and 2021 by the Jackson Free Press.
Turner was appointed to his position on August 1, 2022.
20 comments:
Better qualified than any of you seditious MAGA conspiracy theories.
@4:33 PM,
What the hell are you talking about?
If you are going to insult someone, please be sure your spelling, and word tense is correct. Don't you agree @4:33?
He waited until it was guaranteed that his legacy would not be "Turner v. Roe."
August 10, 2022 at 4:33 PM; we aren't seditious MAGA conspiracy theories. we are seditious MAGA conspiracy theorists. if you're going to insult someone, at least use proper grammar.
“Best doctor in Jackson” is probably a stretch.
He is a good dude. Y’all lay off.
Saying you're the best doctor in Jackson, Mississippi is akin to saying you're the best ballerina in all of Wichita Falls, Texas.
Just saying.
He's Vax loving covidiot that spent all of covid making sure anyone that ever said anything offensive on social media got their woke witch trial and fired from ummc. Screw him, tell him I said it (Clay Edwards)
Paul Mitchell wrote, "Saying you're the best doctor in Jackson, Mississippi is akin to saying you're the best ballerina in all of Wichita Falls, Texas.
Just saying."
Tommy and Gracey Tune are from Wichita Falls, so...just saying.
10:09, vax loving = paid attention in med school
10:09, vax loving = paid, there I fixed it for you.
Clay Edwards:
This doctor may reassess as covid shots are subjected to more peer review and growing skepticism among MDs. That's how science works: as more evidence surfaces, postulated understanding grows ever closer to "truth".
Two things. First, I have come to believe that posts like @433 is really just KF posting things to drive traffic. No one can be that wacked out on their ideas and CONTINUE to stay on the sight posting.
KF, I'm kidding. I think those posters are really that wacked out.
Second, major kudos to Paul Mitchell @915 for knowing about Witchita Falls, TX. Nice place. Not sure about their ballet offerings though. But spot on analogy!!
Speaking of med school - Do you know what you call someone who graduated last in his class at med school? Doctor.
All vax supporters should also be Trump supporters since Trump got the vaccines fast tracked for everyone’s benefit, just saying..they’d still be stuck in FDA purgatory under the current administration.
"Best doctor in Jackson." Akin to not even the smartest guy in his own pants.
""Best doctor in Jackson." Akin to not even the smartest guy in his own pants."
Close down the internet for today. We have a winner ;-)
When will Dobbs be indicted?
Just like Dobbs, the new State Health Officer is hiring multiple doctors to do the job that one doctor should do. When is this state going to learn that multiple agencies and boards with overpaid leadership is not sustainable by the taxpayers. If we are ever to fully become tax friendly, no income tax and lower sales tax or no sales tax on food and medicine, then government needs to be trimmed from the top down. This new administration is becoming the most bloated in state history.
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