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Darren Turner, MD

Medical Resident/Fellow

Surgery | College of Medicine

Education/Credentials
  • Medical Degree: University of Miami
  • Undergraduate Degree: Florida Atlantic University (Biological Chemistry)
Contact Information

Peer Reviewed Publications

Chappell, Grant; Mehdizadeh-Shrifi, Amir; Turner, Darren; Bondoc, Alexander; Evans, Suzanne; Miethke, Alexander G; Tiao, Gregory; Chlebowski, Meghan M; Opotowsky, Alexander R; Lehenbauer, David; Ricci, Marco; Ashfaq, Awais; Morales, David L S 2026. Outcomes of Fontan patients undergoing combined heart-liver transplantation in pediatric hospitals across the United States. The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery, 171 1, 288-297.e2

Chappell, Grant; Turner, Darren; Mehdizadeh-Shrifi, Amir; Lehenbauer, David; Ricci, Marco; Chlebowski, Meghan M; Goldstein, Stuart L; Ashfaq, Awais; Morales, David L S 2026. Practice Patterns and Outcomes of Hemodialysis in Infants Undergoing Congenital Heart Surgery in the United States. Pediatric cardiology, ,

Cooper, Daniel; Turner, Darren; Cooper, David S; Hayes, Don; Morales, David L S 2026. Rethinking paracorporeal lung assist device support in the modern era: Why so different than ECMO? The Journal of heart and lung transplantation : the official publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation, 45 8, 1238-1240

Mangano, Luke; Turner, Darren; Day, Patrick; Villalobos, Jose; Hashemi, Sassan; Morales, David L S 2026. A Health Tracking Application Leads to An Avid Cyclist Being Diagnosed with ALCAPA at 52 years old, Warranting a Takeuchi Repair. The Annals of thoracic surgery, ,

Turner, Darren; Mehdizadeh-Shrifi, Amir; Faateh, Muhammad; Ahmed, Hosam; Carlisle, Michael A; Lehenbauer, David; Ricci, Marco; Ashfaq, Awais; Morales, David L S 2026. Substantial Operative and Nonoperative Mortality Persists in Neonatal Ebstein Anomaly: A 20-Year Multi-Institutional Analysis. World journal for pediatric & congenital heart surgery, , 21501351261445890

Turner, Darren; Mehdizadeh-Shrifi, Amir; Raees, Aanish; Lehenbauer, David; Ashfaq, Awais; VandenHeuvel, Katherine; Hill, Garick D; Morales, David L S 2026. Contrasting the Performance of a Surgeon-Fashioned Extracellular Matrix Cylindrical Tricuspid Valve Versus a Mechanical Valve. World journal for pediatric & congenital heart surgery, 17 1, 122-124

Turner, Darren; Van Haren, Robert M 2026. Freezing Out Occult N1 Disease: How Do We Manage Lymph Nodes During Segmentectomy? The Annals of thoracic surgery, 121 2, 298-299

Ramineni, Aadhyasri; Mehdizadeh-Shrifi, Amir; Riggs, Kyle W; O'Donnell, Alan; Turner, Darren; Statile, Christopher J; Ryan, Thomas D; Morales, David L S 2025. Adolescent with severe obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery, 169 5, e43-e45

Turner, Darren; Hedrick, David; Starnes, Sandra L; Van Haren, Robert M 2025. Looking through the particles: a narrative review of air pollution and lung cancer. Journal of thoracic disease, 17 12, 11369-11376

Turner, Darren; Mehdizadeh-Shrifi, Amir; Chappell, Grant; Morales, David L 2025. The increasing utilization of ventricular assist devices in fontan failure. JHLT open, 9 , 100282

Turner, Darren; Morales, David L; Hayes, Don 2025. Beyond boundaries: Redefining the donor frontier in pediatric lung transplantation. JHLT open, 10 , 100355

Turner, Darren; Nwatu, Daniel; Kodia, Karishma; Huerta, Carlos Theodore; Villamizar, Nestor R; Briski, Lawrence; Nguyen, Dao M 2022. Middle mediastinal cavernous hemangioma: a case report of clinical, pathologic and radiologic features. Journal of surgical case reports, 2022 5, rjac230

Turner, Darren; Rieger, Angela C; Balkan, Wayne; Hare, Joshua M 2020. Clinical-based Cell Therapies for Heart Disease-Current and Future State. Rambam Maimonides medical journal, 11 2,