1924
Born in New York, New York to Michael and Lucy Turino.
1945
Receives a Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University.
1948
Receives a Doctor of Medicine from Columbia University and becomes an intern at the Columbia University Division of Bellevue Hospital.
1949
Becomes an assistant resident in medicine at Bellevue Hospital.
1950
Becomes a resident in medicine at New Haven Hospital.
1951
Serves to captain in the U.S. Air Force.
1953
Becomes chief resident in medicine at the Columbia University Division of Bellevue Hospital.
1956
Becomes a senior fellow of the New York Heart Association.
1960
Becomes an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University, and an attending physician at Presbyterian Hospital.
1961
Becomes a career investigator for the Health Research Council of the City of New York.
1967
Becomes an associate professor at Columbia University.
1973
Promoted to full professor of medicine at Columbia University.
1981
Serves as president of the New York Heart Association.
1983
Becomes John H. Keating Professor of Medicine at Columbia University and director of medical service at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital.
1989
Receives the Distinguished Achievement Award from the American Heart Association.
1995
Serves as president of the New York Medical-Surgical Society.
1997
Becomes director of the James P. Mara Center at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital.
2010
Receives the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Birmingham UK 7 Conference.
2016
Becomes Professor Emeritus at Columbia University.
2017
Receives the First Visionary Award from the COPD Foundation.