Turner chose not to run for re-election in the 2019 election,stating "From the beginning,I spoke about the need to move forward in building Nellie Carlson School,with upgrading the Misericordia Hospital and eliminating flavoured tobacco...I've been proud to see all of these goals accomplished".[4]
Turner served as a member of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts and as a member on the Standing Committee on the Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund. Previously he served as chair of the Standing Committee on Privileges and Elections,Standing Orders and Printing.[6]
Turner has been a supporter of issues such as LGBTQ2S+ rights,he replaced a rainbow flag that was cut down from Lillian Osborne High School in June 2017.[7]
Medical career
Turner is a retired hematologist/oncologist at the University of Alberta Hospital and Cross Cancer Institute and is Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Oncology at the University of Alberta in Edmonton,Alberta,Canada. He also served Stanton Medical Clinic in Yellowknife,Northwest Territories. He is a graduate of McGill University medical school and has training in Internal Medicine from Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal,Quebec and Hematology and Medical Oncology from the University of Pittsburgh.[8] He practiced hematology and oncology medicine,with a special interest in blood disorders such as acute and chronic leukemias,lymphomas,myelodysplastic syndromes,myeloproliferative neoplasms,mast cell diseases and stem cell transplantation.[9] In the past,Turner was the medical director of the Canadian Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service Center in Edmonton and director of the Division of Clinical Hematology of the University of Alberta. In 2007 he was selected as the Physician of the Year by the Edmonton Zone Medical Staff Association.
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