Rob Turner, PhD, is a professor of neurobiology at the University of Pittsburgh and director of graduate studies at the Center for Neuroscience at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Turner has extensive experience studying the neural processes related to parkinsonism and deep-brain stimulation for parkinsonism using a variety of techniques. He has published extensively on the neurophysiologic correlates of parkinsonism and of deep-brain stimulation therapy using non-human primate models. In parallel, he has collaborated on functional imaging studies of parkinsonism and deep-brain stimulation in humans and on intra-operative neuronal recording studies performed in people undergoing surgical therapies for Parkinson’s disease. Dr. Turner earned his PhD working with Marjorie Anderson at the University of Washington, Seattle, and completed postdoctoral training with Mahlon DeLong at Emory University, Atlanta. He joined the department of neurosurgery at the University of California, San Francisco in 2000 and moved to the University of Pittsburgh in 2007.