Michelle Turner, MS, CRNP, is the Senior Lead Nurse Practitioner in Thoracic Oncology at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, where she also serves as an Advanced Practitioner and Program Coordinator for the Lung Cancer Urgent Care and Survivorship Clinics.
Ms. Turner has clinical expertise in thoracic, hematologic, and gastrointestinal malignancies, in addition to solid tumors, HIV, diabetes, pain management, and immuno-oncology. With more than 16 years of experience as an oncology nurse practitioner, she has worked with patients both on and off clinical trials, diagnosing and managing symptoms of disease and treatment. She also has served as a sub-investigator on several clinical trials.
She is a member of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer, the International Thoracic Oncology Nursing Foundation. She also serves as Co-President of the Baltimore City Nurse Practitioner Group, for which she helps organize monthly educational meetings to discuss new and upcoming oncologic therapies for maintaining competency in the ever-changing landscape of medicine.
Ms. Turner received a bachelor’s degree in biological sciences from Wheaton College and a master’s of science degree from the Boston College Graduate School of Nursing. Prior to joining Johns Hopkins, Ms. Turner held positions at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, the University of Maryland Medical Center, and the University of Maryland Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center.