
Speaker

Jonathan Turner, PhD, FACHE
Jonathan Turner is one of LeanTaaS’ product implementation managers. Prior to his career at LeanTaaS, he held numerous roles at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago and University Health Care System in Augusta, Ga., where he ran ORs, led employed physicians, chaired readmission and length-of-stay committees, wrote community needs assessments, built clinical guidelines into order sets, led capital projects, and published and refereed papers in both engineering and healthcare journals. Prior to his career in healthcare, Dr. Turner optimized frozen chicken inventory levels at Tyson Foods, corn syrup delivery routes at Carry Transit, spare parts quantities for mobile U.S. Army warehouses in Iraq and Afghanistan at RAND, and physical plant layouts at Lockheed Martin. He earned his doctorate in engineering from Northwestern University and a Master of Business Administration degree from Augusta University. He is board certified in healthcare management as an ACHE Fellow.