John Turk, M.D., Ph.D.

John Turk, M.D., Ph.D. is Professor of Medicine at the Washington University School of Medicine, Director of the Biomolecular Analysis Research Core for the CNRU, and Director of the Mass Spectrometry Core Facility. He received the M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the Washington University School of Medicine in 1976. He completed a residency in internal medicine at the Washington University School of Medicine in 1980 and served a fellowship in Clinical Pharmacology at Vanderbilt University from 1980 to 1982. He is board certified in Internal Medicine. He was elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation in 1991 and to the Association of American Physicians in 2001. His research includes the study of lipid signaling mechanisms in insulin secretion by pancreatic islets, and that work is supported by a MERIT award from the National Institutes of Health. He is also engaged in basic research to characterize complex lipids by tandem mass spectrometry and in the application of these methods to biomedical investigation.