Education
Undergraduate Degree: Florida Atlantic University 2018 (Biological Chemistry)
Medical Degree: University of Miami 2022
Publications
Peer Reviewed Publications
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) , rjac230More Information
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) More Information
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) , 1238-1240More Information
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 surgeryMore Information
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, 21501351261445890More Information
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) , 298-299More Information
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 cardiologyMore Information
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.e2More Information
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) , 122-124More Information
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) , 11369-11376More Information
Turner, Darren; Morales, David L; Hayes, Don (2025). Beyond boundaries: Redefining the donor frontier in pediatric lung transplantation. JHLT open, 10, 100355More Information
Turner, Darren; Mehdizadeh-Shrifi, Amir; Chappell, Grant; Morales, David L (2025). The increasing utilization of ventricular assist devices in fontan failure. JHLT open, 9, 100282More Information
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-e45More Information