Peter Turk, M.D., FACS
Peter S. Turk, M.D., FACS
Certification:
- American Board of Surgery, 1992; re-certification, 2002
Undergraduate:
- Indiana University, National Merit Scholar
Medical School:
- Indiana University School of Medicine, 1981-1985
- Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society, 1984
General Surgery Residency:
- University of Tennessee, Memphis, 1985-1990
- Administrative Chief Resident, 1989-1990
Surgical Oncology Fellowship
- Brown University, 1990-1992
Honors:
- American Cancer Society Fellowship Award, 1991, 1992
Administrative Positions:
- Co-director, Presbyterian Breast Cancer Advisory Committee
- Novant Health Southern Piedmont Oncology Council
- Director, Presbyterian Multidisciplinary Breast Cancer Clinic
- Director, Presbyterian Multidisciplinary Gastrointestinal Cancer Clinic
- Cancer Liaison Physician, Presbyterian Hospital, 1993-2004
- North Carolina State Chairman, Cancer Liaison Program, Commission on Cancer, 1996-2002
Academic Positions:
- Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery, UNC-Chapel Hill
- Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery, Brown University, 1992
Honors:
- Presbyterian Hospital Physician of the Year, 2008
- Annually on Best Physicians List, Charlotte Magazine & NC Business Journal
Societies:
- American College of Surgeons, Fellow North Carolina Chapter
- American College of Surgeons, President, 2004-2005
- Board of Directors, 1996-2008
- Charlotte Surgical Society, President, 2001-2002
- Society of Surgery of the Alimentary Tract
- Society of Surgical Oncology
- Christian Medical and Dental Society
- North Carolina Medical Society
- Mecklenberg County Medical Society
- American Society of Breast Surgeons
