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Roger Newman Turner, ND, DO, BAc
Roger Newman Turner is a retired practitioner of naturopathy, osteopathy, and acupuncture having practised for 52 years in clinics established in the 1950s by his father, F. Newman Turner (a pioneering organic farmer and medical herbalist) in Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire, and London. Roger graduated from the British College of Naturopathy and Osteopathy in 1963, obtained the Licentiate of the British College of Acupuncture in 1966, and his Bachelor of Acupuncture in 1973. He is a life member of the General Council and Register of Naturopaths, a Fellow of the British Naturopathic Association, and of the British Acupuncture Council,
Throughout his professional life, Roger has been active in initiatives to raise awareness of the important role that naturopathy must play in worldwide health care. He has travelled widely both to lecture and participate in conferences on complementary medicine in such countries as Japan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, China, and the U.S.A.. He has been on two extended medical delegations to China and was a keynote lecturer at international conferences on natural and integrated medicine in Australia, India, and Israel. Roger served on the planning group for the series of colloquia held in the 1980s, at the Royal Society of Medicine at the instigation of the, then, Prince of Wales, In 1999, he was invited to give evidence to the House of Lords Select Committee on Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
Roger is the author of Naturopathic Medicine;Treating the whole person (1984,2000) as well as a number of books on diet and health, and was a contributor to various encyclopedias and handbooks on natural medicine. He was the editor of the British Journal of Acupuncture for eleven years until 1992. He was also a founding trustee of the Research Council for Complementary Medicine (UK) and formerly a managing trustee of the Tyringham Foundation, which was responsible for a famous residential naturopathic clinic in Buckinghamshire for more than 30 years before it closed in the late 1990s.
Roger was a recipient of The Beacon Award at the NMSA Gathering in2010, where he spoke about his early experiences of nature cure being used for the livestock on his father's organic farm.
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