Consultant Breast Oncoplastic and Aesthetic Breast Surgeon

Mr Turton’s training career in Medicine and Surgery commenced in 1987. He studied at the Leeds University School of Medicine and qualified with 3 distinctions and 3 honours. After completing house officer training at St James’s University Teaching Hospital he immediately went on to a full surgical training programme. He was awarded the Fellowship to the Royal College of Surgeons in 1996 He spent a two-year period performing research and wrote a thesis which led to the award of a higher degree, MD(Hons), as Doctor of Medicine with a commendation. He spent a period in the United States in 1999 on a Traveling Fellowship and visited leading centres: Stanford University Medical Center, California; University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado; Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, the-subOhio.

Mr Turton completed the Specialist Higher Surgical Training in General Surgery (comprises the sub-specialties of Breast Surgery, Vascular surgery, Endocrine Surgery, Hepatobiliary surgery, Upper GI surgery, Colorectal Surgery, Emergency Surgery) throughout the major centers in Yorkshire and went on to super-specialise in Breast Surgery. He spent the final 2-years of training learning and developing advanced skills in Breast Reconstruction Surgery, Cosmetic Breast Surgery and Oncoplastic Breast Surgery.