Alexander Turchin

Alexander Turchin is Director of Informatics Research and a practicing endocrinologist at the Division of Endocrinology at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a Director of Clinical Informatics at Baim Institute for Clinical Research. Dr. Turchin graduated from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and completed a Medical Informatics fellowship at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology.

Dr. Turchin has a particular interest in using natural language processing to study quality of care of patients with chronic endocrine diseases including diabetes, hypertension and hyperlipidemia. Dr. Turchin's research has lead to over 80 peer-reviewed publications. Dr. Turchin was elected as a Fellow of American College of Medical Informatics. His work has been funded by AHRQ, NIH, and several private foundations.