Matthew Turner is an emergency medicine physician at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Hospital in Hershey, Pennsylvania. His scholarship spans emergency medicine, military medicine, infectious disease, medical history, and the intersection of medicine with warfare and public health. He has authored more than 35 peer-reviewed publications, with work appearing in Cureus, Military Medicine, the Emergency Medicine Journal, Emerging Infectious Diseases, the American Journal of Neuroradiology, and other journals.

Dr. Turner has long been interested in the intersection of medicine and history, with publications examining historical disease outbreaks, biological and chemical warfare, ancient pathology, toxicology, and military medical lessons. His work has explored topics ranging from yellow fever and anthrax as possible tools of biological warfare to the medical legacy of historical figures such as Akhenaten, Henry I, Justinian II, and Dominique-Jean Larrey. He also writes about the evolving world of counterinsurgency and counterterrorism, including modern conflict medicine and the use of chemical weapons by violent non-state actors. Professional updates are available on LinkedIn.