Turner Osler, MD

Turner Osler is a trauma surgeon and epidemiologist affiliated with the University of Vermont and the founder of QOR360, a startup devoted to making active sitting chairs affordable enough for everyone.

He earned a BA in neurobiology from Princeton University and his MD from the Medical College of Virginia, completed surgical residency training at Columbia and Harvard, and finished fellowships in trauma and critical care at the University of New Mexico. He then spent twenty years as an academic trauma surgeon at the University of New Mexico and the University of Vermont, publishing more than 300 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters. He later earned a master's degree in biostatistics and, supported by a National Institutes of Health grant, spent ten years studying trauma epidemiology.

For the past decade, his work has focused on the problems caused by an addiction to sitting, and especially by poorly designed ergonomic chairs. Working with ergonomists, designers, engineers, movement practitioners (Feldenkrais, Alexander Technique, Rolfers), and many beta testers, he began designing chairs that make sitting active rather than passive. QOR360 also gives away a do-it-yourself design for an active chair for children at ButtOnChairs.org.

His writing on active sitting has appeared in Chiropractic Economics, including "Is active sitting a solution to low-back pain?" He shares updates on LinkedIn, Instagram, and X.