12/13/10

Asher Turney is a local resident and graduate of Sparkman High School in Harvest, Alabama. He is also a graduate of Fisk University and received his medical doctorate degree from Meharry Medical College (MMC). He finished his internship at Harvard Medical School at the renowned Massachusetts General Hospital. He has trained in neurosurgery and occupational medicine. He completed a masters of business administration degree at Emory Goizueta Business School. He is currently part of the MMC Occupational and Preventive Medicine Department in Nashville, Tennessee.

Currently, he is completing a masters of science in public health at the MMC public health program in the School of Graduate Studies. He also is an inaugural health policy scholar in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Institute and a David Winston Health Policy Scholar. He is committed to improving health disparities and learning  how to live happy and healthy.