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2024/01/25
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Dr Dr Gareth Turner

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Designations:

  • Senior Consultant, Department of Pathology, National University Hospital

Qualifications:

MA, BM,BCh, DPhil, FRCPath

Specialties/Sub-specialties:

Pathology

Special Interests:

Digital pathology

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Dr Gareth Turner is a Senior Consultant in Histopathology with subspeciality interests in Urological and Haematopathology. He trained in Cambridge and then Oxford, and have previously worked mainly in the UK in Oxford, where he qualified FRPath in Histopathology as a Wellcome Trust Research then Career Development Fellow and a Clinical then Senior Lecturer in NDCLS, gaining a PhD in Malaria research and running a research group as part of the Oxford Tropical Network. He spent time working in Vietnam, South Africa before qualifying FRCPath and working first in Cambridge then Oxford as a Consultant in Urological/Renal and transplant pathology. He then became director of Translational Pathology for the NIHR/NDCLS in Oxford, before spending 5 years in the Oxford-Mahidol research unit (MORU) in Bangkok as Director of Pathology / Visiting Professor of Tropical Pathology and a PI in NDM. He returned and respecialised in Haematopathology for 7 years before joining National University Hospital. He has research interests in the pathology and pathophysiology of infectious diseases, providing pathology support for cancer research projects, and applications of digital pathology and AI in diagnostics, specifically in Haematopathology. He is a member of BAUP, BLPG, and BDIAP.

Journals & Publications

  1. H Ryou, K Sirinukunwattana, A Aberdeen et al. Continuing Indexing of Fibrosis (CIF): improving the assessment and classification of MPN patients. Leukaemia 2023; 37(2): 348-358
  2. P Weeratunga, L Denney, JA Bull et al. Single cell spatial analysis reveals inflammatory foci of immature neutrophil and CD8 T cells in COVID-19 lungs. Nature Comms 2023; 14 7216.
  3. Lombardini ED, Mallaret B, Rungojn A, et al. Ultrastructural characterisation of host-parasire interactions of Plasmodium coatneyi in rhesus macaques. Parasitology 2022; 149(2): 161-170
  4. Lombardini ED, Turner GDH, Brown AE. A systemic analysis of ultrastructural lesions in the Plasmodium coatneyi splenectomised rhesus macaque model of severe malaria Vetinary Pathol 2022 59(5): 873-882
  5. BK Salence, GDH Turner, C Stonnard et al.  Pruritic rash following haploidentical stem cell transplantation. Clin Expe Dermatol 2022: 47(8); 1617-1621
  6. K Sirinukunwattana, A Aberdeen, H Theissen et al. Artificial intelligence-based morphological fingerprinting of megakaryocytes:  new tool for assessing disease in MPN patients. Blood Adv 2020; 4(14): 3284-3294
  7. Willan J, King AJ, Djebbari F et al. Asessing the Impact of lockdown: Fresh challenges for the care of haematology patients in the COVID-19 pandemic. Br J Haematol 2020: 189(6) 224
  8. Macklin P, Turner GDH, Royston DJ. An unusual cause of a right nasal mass in a 73-year old male. Diagn Histopath 2019; 35(6): 260-263
  9. Plewes K, Kingston HW, Ghose A et al. Acetominophen as a renoprotective adjunctive treatmnt i patients ith severe and moderately severe malaria: a randomized, controlled, open label trial. Clin Infect Dis 2018; 67(7): 991-999
  10. Plewes K, Kingston HW, Ghose A et al. Cell-free hemoglobin mediated oxidative stress is associated with acuet kidney injury and renal repalcement therapy in severe falciparum malaria: an observational study. BMC Infect Dis 2017 17: 1-12

Professional Memberships

  • British Division of International Academy of Pathology
  • British Association of Urological Pathology
  • British Lymphoma Panel Working Group

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