Preceded by Stephen Mandel Residence Edmonton, Alberta | Name Bob Turner | |
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Full Name Andrew Robert Turner Born June 23, 1948 (age 75)
Brandon, Manitoba ( 1948-06-23 ) Political party Alberta New Democratic Party Occupation Medical doctor, professor | ||
Andrew Robert "Bob" Turner (born June 23, 1948) is a Canadian politician who was elected in the Alberta general election, 2015 to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the electoral district of Edmonton-Whitemud. He won his seat with 12,803 votes, defeating incumbent Health Minister and former Mayor of Edmonton, Stephen Mandel by 5,622 votes, or around 57% of the vote to Mandel's 32%. Mandel had previously beaten Turner in an October, 2014 by-election after Mandel was appointed as an unelected minister by then-Premier Jim Prentice.
Career
Turner is a hematologist/oncologist at the University of Alberta Hospital and Cross Cancer Institute and is Professor of Medicine and Oncology at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He also serves 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. He continues to practice 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. 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.