After receiving his doctoral degree, Turnbull was a visiting faculty member at
Stanford University with joint appointments in the Department of Statistics and the
School of Medicine. In 1972 he was appointed lecturer at the Mathematical Institute,
University of Oxford. He joined the Cornell faculty in 1976, where he is currently
Professor of Statistics in the Departments of Statistical Science and of
Operations Research. In 1979 he was awarded the Snedecor Memorial Award by the
American Statistical Association in recognition of his research. He has authored
over 100 publications and the co-author of a recent book on statistical procedures
for monitoring clinical trials. He has been a consultant to many organizations,
including the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Turnbull has served on the Board of
Directors of the National Institute of Statistical Sciences, and on the Expert
Review Panel for the National Toxicology Program Board of Scientific Counselors.
He is on the Data and Safety Monitoring Committees for several major national and
international clinical trials in the areas of cancer, heart disease, pulmonary disease
and of AIDS sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and by the Veterans
Administration.. He has been on the editorial board of several statistical journals
and is currently an associate editor of Statistics in Medicine. He is a Fellow of
the American Statistical Association and of the Royal Statistical Society.
He is also a member of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management
Sciences, the Biometric Society, and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
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