Jeff Turley, M.D. Bio

Dr. Jeff Turley is a board certified child psychiatrist practicing since 1985.   He has a small private practice, is the Medical Director of North River Counseling in Marshfield, Massachusetts, works as a staff child psychiatrist for South Shore Mental Health, and consults for several school systems on the south shore of the Boston area.    He is the psychiatric consultant to the federal/state cooperative effort, Pathways, made possible by a grant from the Executive Office of Health and Human Services and the Massachusetts Department of Social Services.

Dr. Turley was raised in Montana, the oldest child of hard-working and loving parents.  His father was a school teacher and his mother a small business owner.   He moved with his family to Charlottesville, Virginia when he was a teenager.  His college education was at the United States Air Force Academy and Virginia Tech, where he was admitted into the Phi Beta Kappa honor society.  Once he was accepted to medical school,  Dr. Turley won a prestigious Health Professions Scholarship from the United States Air Force.  He graduated from the University of Virginia School of Medicine in 1985 and completed his residencies in General Adult Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in 1990. 

Dr. Turley entered military service the same summer that Kuwait was invaded by Iraq.  He was immediately deployed to Germany where he was a part of the armed services medical response to the Gulf War.  As a part of those duties he cared for the dependent children of servicemen and women deployed to the war.  He was chosen by his commander to be the team psychiatrist on repatriation missions to Turkey.  The repatriation team were the first clinicians available to American and British hostages released by their captors in the middle east.  He was promoted to the rank of Major, and tasked with designing and leading child and adolescent psychiatric services for military populations all over Europe and the Middle East. 

Dr. Turley's civilian jobs have included leadership positions as Medical Director of child and adolescent psychiatry hospital wards, a residential treatment center, and an inpatient unit for treating adolescent sexual offenders.  Read his Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Turley and his wife have celebrated their 25th year of marriage.  They have two grown children who are excellent students and accomplished musicians.  Anna, 21, is a senior at the University of Delaware.  Mike, 19, is a freshman at Northeastern University.

Dr. Turley is an enthusiastic skier and skater.  He sings with the SnugTones, a local Jazz and Pop sextet.

Dr. Turley's wife, Sue, was pleased to announce the opening of her new meal-assembly business, Entree Vous of Duxbury, on November 1, 2007.  She invites visitors of this website to come to www.entreevous.com to see how dinner gets done.