{"id":5910,"date":"2022-07-28T15:45:41","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T19:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=5910"},"modified":"2023-08-02T13:27:25","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T17:27:25","slug":"katherine-turk","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/profile\/katherine-turk\/","title":{"rendered":"Katherine Turk"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Background<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Dr. Turk\u00a0completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Chicago and earned her medical\u00a0degree in 2011 from Tufts University School of Medicine. She completed her internal medicine\u00a0internship and neurology residency at the University of Washington in 2015.\u00a0 In 2015, Dr. Turk began her fellowship training in cognitive and behavioral neurology at VA Boston and transitioned to her current role as an attending Neurologist at VA Boston Healthcare System in 2018.\u00a0\u00a0In 2018, she became an Assistant Professor of Neurology at the Boston University School of Medicine.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>ADRC Role<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Dr. Turk\u00a0participates in weekly multidisciplinary diagnostic consensus conferences to assist with the clinical diagnoses for participants enrolled in the ADC Clinical Core Registry. Dr. Turk also plays a strong leadership role on the ORE Core.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Research Interests<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Dr. Turk\u2019s research focuses on event-related potentials as an electrophysiological marker of neurodegeneration in AD and CTE among veterans. Dr. Turk is particularly interested in the long-term risk of neurodegeneration among veterans who have experienced multiple head injuries. She is mentored at VA Boston and\u00a0the BU AD and CTE Center by\u00a0 Dr. Andrew Budson, M.D.\u00a0and Ann C. McKee, M.D.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Awards\/Memberships<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Dr. Turk was the recipient of the\u00a0 Alzheimer\u2019s Association Clinical Fellowship Award to support her research investigating the clinical utility of event related potentials in a memory disorders clinic.\u00a0\u00a0She was nominated to the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society in 2012 for her education of medical students<b>.\u00a0<\/b><span>During medical school s<\/span><span>he received the Joseph Collins scholarship for medical students interested in Neurology<\/span><span>.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0She is a member of the American Academy of Neurology, the Society for Cognitive and\u00a0Behavioral\u00a0Neurology\u00a0and Massachusetts Medical\u00a0Society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20977,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/5910"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/5910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5912,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/5910\/revisions\/5912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}