Education

• MD, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 1969
• Internship and Residency, NIH Academic Trainee, Ohio State University Hospitals, Columbus, OH, 1969-1974
• Fellowship, Peripheral Vascular Surgery, Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH, 1974-1975

Clinical Specialties

Dr. Turnipseed is certified by the American Board of Surgery, with a certificate of added qualifications in vascular surgery. He is the chief of the Peripheral Vascular Surgery service at UW Hospital and Clinics. His clinical specialties include less invasive aortic surgical techniques, diagnosis and management of cerebrovascular disease, clinical applications of magnetic resonance imaging, endovascular surgery, venous surgery, diagnosis and management of thoracic outlet syndrome, and management of athletic overuse injury, such as chronic compartment syndrome.

Dr. Turnipseed is the director of noninvasive peripheral vascular diagnostic facilities at UW Hospital and West Side Clinics.

Dr. Turnipseed provides a wide range of services including Adbominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA) Repair - Endovascular, Adbominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA) Repair - Open, Amputation, Angioplasty With Stent Placement, Carotid Endartecotomy, Carotid Stenting, Compartment Syndrome Treatments, Peripheral Artery Bypass, Thoracic Aortic Aneursym - Endovascular, Thoracic Aortic Aneursym - Open, Thoracic Outlet Syndrome Treatment, and Varicose Vein Treatment.

Research Interests

Dr. Turnipseed has research interests in the development of less invasive surgical techiques for treatment of complex aortic and visceral branch arterial disease, the prevention of stroke, and the development of a Vascular and Cardiac Disease Center.

Recent Publications

• Industrial relations with academic health care and professional medical associations: what's all the fuss? Who cares anyway?
  Turnipseed W
  Surgery 2010 Oct; 148(4):613-7.
  [PubMed ID: 20797744]
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• Effect of early plasma transfusion on mortality in patients with ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm.
  Mell MW, O'Neil AS, Callcut RA, Acher CW, Hoch JR, Tefera G, Turnipseed WD
  Surgery 2010 Nov; 148(5):955-62.
  [PubMed ID: 20378142]
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• Impact of intraoperative arteriography on limb salvage for traumatic popliteal artery injury.
  Callcut RA, Acher CW, Hoch J, Tefera G, Turnipseed W, Mell MW
  J Trauma 2009 Aug; 67(2):252-7; discussion 257-8.
  [PubMed ID: 19667876]
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• Functional popliteal artery entrapment syndrome: A poorly understood and often missed diagnosis that is frequently mistreated.
  Turnipseed WD
  J. Vasc. Surg. 2009 May; 49(5):1189-95.
  [PubMed ID: 19394547]
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• Outcomes after endarterectomy for chronic mesenteric ischemia.
  Mell MW, Acher CW, Hoch JR, Tefera G, Turnipseed WD
  J. Vasc. Surg. 2008 Nov; 48(5):1132-8.
  [PubMed ID: 18771889]
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