Professor Alice M Turner MBChB (Hons), MRCP, PGCE (MedEd), PhD

Dr Alice Turner

Department of Applied Health Sciences
Professor of Respiratory Medicine
Honorary Consultant Respiratory Physician
Department Director of Research Knowledge and Transfer

Contact details

Address
Department of Applied Health Sciences
University 麻豆精选
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Alice’s research interests are predominantly in clinical aspects of alpha 1 antitrypsin deficiency (AATD) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), fields in which she has published widely. Optimising monitoring and therapy for AATD is a major focus for her group. They are also studying aspects of care delivery for COPD, particularly those that span from secondary into primary care and including clinical trials that optimise self-management of COPD.

Qualifications

  • FRCP 2020
  • PGDip Leadership & quality improvement 2019
  • PhD in Respiratory Medicine 2010
  • PGC in Medical Education 2007
  • MRCP 2004
  • MBChB (Hons) 2001

Teaching

  • MBChB (year 5 lead, conference poster module lead (year 4)
  • BMedSci (dissertation projects)
  • BClinSci (dissertation projects)
  • PGC/Dip/Masters Respiratory Medicine (Programme lead)

Postgraduate supervision

Alice Turner鈥檚 research interests are predominantly in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and alpha 1 antitrypsin deficiency, fields in which she has published widely. She lectures to both Medical and Dental Students at the University and is involved in clinical teaching and examining in several local hospitals.

The following is a list of recent or current postgraduate degree supervision. Enquiries from self-funded potential students or those wishing to pursue a Fellowship in Dr Turner's current areas of research interest are welcome by email.

PhD - Cell specific genomics exploring shared pathogenesis between COPD and lung cancer (year 2)
PhD - The role of hypoxia in vascular co-morbidity in chronic inflammatory disease (write up)

Other activities

Academic/clinical committees

•           International

o          ERS AATD task force (2015-)

o          EARCO European AATD registry steering group (2018-)

o          Clinical Biomarker Qualification consortium, imaging subgroup (2018-)

•           National

o          BTS working party for care bundles (2013-14) 

o          BTS Specialist Advisory Group (SAG) on COPD (2015-18)

o          West Midlands Quality Review Service COPD steering group (2016-)

o          NICE health technology appraisal committee (2018-21)

o          NIHR HTA prioritization committee (2019-)

o          BTS quality improvement committee (2019-22)

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Turner, AM, Spittle, DA, Staples, KS & Cleary, D 2025, '', NIHR Journals Library.

Patel, N, Deprato, A, Qian, T, Adan, A, Akg眉n, M, Anderson, A, Brickstock, A, Eathorne, A, Garud, A, Haldar, P, Jindal, A, Jindal, SK, Kerget, B, Moitra, S, Mukherjee, R, Semprini, A, Turner, AM, Murgia, N, Lacy, P & Moitra, S 2025, '', Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: Global, vol. 4, no. 2, 100456.

Spittle, D, Pye, A, Stanka, J, De Soyza, J, Stockley, R & Turner, A 2025, '', Respiratory Medicine.

Ferraz, BD, Sucena, M, Cardoso, MF, Turner, AM, Hern谩ndez-P茅rez, JM, Torres-Duran, M, Tanash, H, Rodr铆guez-Garc铆a, C, Jensen, JU, Corsico, A, L贸pez-Campos, JL, Chapman, K, Clarenbach, CF, Gomes, J, Miravitlles, M & Lara, B 2025, '', BMC Pulmonary Medicine, vol. 25, no. 1, 187.

EARCO study group, Karado臒an, D, Torres-Duran, M, Tanash, H, Rodr铆guez-Garc铆a, C, Jensen, J-US, Corsico, AG, L贸pez-Campos, JL, Chapman, K, Clarenbach, C, Guimaraes, C, Barto拧ovsk谩, E, Sucena, M, Rodr铆guez-Hermosa, JL, Hern谩ndez-P茅rez, JM, G枚khan Telatar, T, Varol, Y, 脰zmen, 陌, Tural, S, Turner, AM & Ellis, P 2025, '', BMC Pulmonary Medicine, vol. 25, no. 1, 321.

DECOVID Consortium, Aslett, LJM, Avramescu, A, Bakewell, N, Birds, I, Bowler, L, Camilleri, MPJ, Chung, S-C, Clifton, DA, Cohen, SN, Constantine-Cooke, N, Daub, EG, Davidson, S, Denaxas, S, Diaz-Ordaz, K, Feltbower, R, Gallier, S, Gardiner, S, Gasperoni, F, Goudie, RJB, Green, RE, Hall, M, Holmes, C, Hurst, JR, Iles, MM, Jorge, J, Karoune, E, Keogh, R, King, R, King, R, Kirk, PDW, Klapaukh, R, Kouchaki, S, Lai, AG, Lea, N, Leyrat, C, Li, K, Lilaonitkul, W, Lu, HY, Lyons, T, Mallon, AM, Manderson, A, Margaritella, N, Matteson, J, Morley, S, Nicholls, H, O鈥橰eilly, M, Pagel, C, Palmer, E, Roberts, J, Roberts, TJ, Robertson, DS, Robinson, J, Rockenschaub, P, Ruddle, R, Sapey, E, Santos, L, Soltan, AAS, Gao Smith, F, Starr, C, Strickson, O, Su, L, Tackney, MS, Thygesen, JH, Torralbo, A, Turner, A, Vallejos, CA, Wang, C, Whitaker, K, Whitehouse, T, Westhead, DR, Wong, WK, Wu, Y, Yang, L & Zou, X 2025, '', Data, vol. 10, no. 12, 195.

Clark, VC, Price, MA, Russo, J, Loomba, R, Turner, AM & Strnad, P 2025, '', United European Gastroenterology Journal, vol. 2025.

Onasanya, AA, Haider, Y, Peaston, G, Ignatowicz, A & Turner, AM 2025, '', BMJ open, vol. 15, no. 7, e098052.

Ignatowicz, A, Greenfield, S, Gaddu, P, Prince, C, Toshner, M, Robinson, G, Rodrigues, J, Jowett, S, Noble, S, Newnham, M, Turner, A & Lasserson, D 2025, '', Health Technology Assessment, vol. 29, no. 11, pp. 31-41.

Fromme, M, Payanc茅, A, Mandorfer, M, Thorhauge, KH, Pons, M, Miravitlles, M, Stolk, J, van Hoek, B, Stirnimann, G, Frankova, S, Sperl, J, Kremer, AE, Burbaum, B, Schrader, C, Kadioglu, A, Walkenhaus, M, Schneider, CV, Klebingat, F, Balcar, L, Kappe, NN, Schaefer, B, Chorostowska-Wynimko, J, Aigner, E, Gensluckner, S, Striedl, P, Roger, P, Ryan, J, Roche, S, V枚gelin, M, Ala, A, Bantel, H, Verbeek, J, Mari帽o, Z, Praktiknjo, M, Gevers, TJG, Reuken, PA, Berg, T, George, J, Demir, M, Bruns, T, Trautwein, C, Zoller, H, Trauner, M, Genesca, J, Griffiths, WJ, Clark, V, Krag, A, Turner, AM, McElvaney, NG, Strnad, P & European AATD Research Collaboration 2025, '', Gastroenterology, vol. 168, no. 2, pp. 367-381.

Huntley, CC, Turner, AM, Burge, S & Walters, GI 2025, '', BMJ Open Respiratory Research, vol. 12, no. 1, e003194.

Ho, ESY, Ellis, PR, Kavanagh, D, Subramanian, D, Stockley, RA & Turner, A 2025, '', Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases: Journal of the COPD Foundation.

Review article

Turner, AM, Ficker, JH, Vianello, A, Clarenbach, CF, Janciauskiene, S, Chorostowska-Wynimko, J, Stolk, J & McElvaney, NG 2025, '', Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease, vol. 19, 17534666251318841.

Aunger, J, Por Yip, K, Dosanjh, K, Scandrett, K, Ungureanu, B, Newnham, M & Turner, AM 2025, '', Chest.

De Soyza, J, Chien, H-Y, Onasanya, AA & Turner, AM 2025, '', Patient related outcome measures, vol. 16, pp. 23-35.