Robert Turner (1938–1999) was a British physician endocrinologist and Professor in Medicine at the Nuffield Department of Medicine, Oxford.Professor Robert Turner
''Diabetes Trial Unit'', University of Oxford, accessed 7 April 2011. He was trained at Cambridge and qualified from the Middlesex Hospital, London in 1963. He then developed an interest in diabetes and went to work in the Endocrine and

Diabetes Diabetes mellitus, commonly known as diabetes, is a group of common endocrine diseases characterized by sustained high blood sugar levels. Diabetes is due to either the pancreas not producing enough of the hormone insulin, or the cells of th ...

Units at the

Massachusetts General Hospital Massachusetts General Hospital (Mass General or MGH) is a teaching hospital located in the West End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It is the original and largest clinical education and research facility of Harvard Medical School/Harvar ...

in Boston in 1971, before joining the Nuffield Department of Medicine,

Oxford University The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the second-oldest continuously operating u ...

as a Lecturer. Turner founded the University of Oxford Diabetes Research Laboratories in 1976, which has since become one of the largest and most successful

clinical research Clinical research is a branch of medical research that involves people and aims to determine the effectiveness (efficacy) and safety of medications, devices, diagnostic products, and treatment regimens intended for improving human health. The ...

units in Europe. His most notable achievement was his contribution to the United Kingdom Prospective Diabetes Study (UKPDS), which gained instant international acclaim after he first presented it at the

European Association for the Study of Diabetes The European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) is a scientific association founded in Montecatini Terme, Italy in 1965 with Joseph Hoet as Founding President. The aims of the association are to encourage and support research in the fie ...

(EASD) meeting in Barcelona in 1998.

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20th-century English medical doctors Alumni of the University of Cambridge Physicians of Massachusetts General Hospital 1938 births 1999 deaths {{med-bio-stub