Alexander Turchin, MD, MS Expert Witness
Curriculum Vitae

Endocrinologist - Harvard Faculty

Contact this Expert Witness

  • Phone: 617-732-5661
  • Cell: (617) 340-9458

Specialties & Experience of this Expert Witness

General Specialties:

Diabetes and Endocrinology

Keywords/Search Terms:

Diabetes, Thyroid, Osteoporosis, Calcium disorders, Adrenal, Pituitary, Hypoglycemia, Hypogonadism, Lipids, Medical Informatics, Health Informatics

Education:

MD, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine; MS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Years in Practice:

20+

Number of Times Deposed/Testified in Last 4 Yrs:

5

Additional Information

Harvard-trained academic endocrinologist and experienced expert witness. Dr. Turchin is a Harvard-trained, double-board certified (Internal Medicine, Endocrinology) full-time practicing academic endocrinologist at Mass General Brigham and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts who has been voted as a Boston Magazine Top Doctor every year since 2020. Dr. Turchin is a nationally and internationally recognized leader in the fields of diabetes and chronic cardiometabolic disease and an experienced general endocrinologist. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters and has given numerous national and international lectures. Dr. Turchin has served as the Medical Lead for the American Diabetes Association's Overcoming Therapeutic Inertia initiative and as the Director of Quality at the Division of Endocrinology at Brigham and Women's Hospital. He has also served as the Founding Chair of American Diabetes Association Health Care Delivery and Quality Improvement Interest Group and a member of the Endocrine Society Quality Subcommittee. Dr. Turchin is also a leading expert in medical / health informatics. He has a Master’s in Medical Informatics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is a Fellow of American College of Medical Informatics. Dr. Turchin has served as a a member of Methods and Data Council at AcademyHealth and as the Chair of Health Information Technology Interest Group at AcademyHealth. Dr. Turchin has served as an expert witness in multiple plaintiff and defendant medical malpractice cases (including deposition and trial testimonies) as well as corporate liability and medical Guardian Ad Litem cases.