Ross Turchaninov, PhD

Dr. Turchaninov graduated with honors from the Odessa Medical School in Ukraine in 1982.  He was admitted to the residency program of the Kiev Scientific Institute of Orthopedy and Rehabilitation, which he completed in 1985.  After his residency, he worked as a physician at the Clinical Hospital of Department IV of the Ukrainian Ministry of Public Health.  During these years, he also worked with the medical team of the relief effort following the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster.

From 1988 to 1992, Dr. Turchaninov worked as a senior scientific researcher at the Kiev Scientific Institute of Orthopedy and Rehabilitation.  In 1989, Dr. Turchaninov obtained his PhD degree in medicine, and in 1990, graduated from the Kiev Scientific Institute of Orthopedy and Rehabilitation’s manual therapy and medical massage programs designed for physicians.

In 1992, Dr. Turchaninov was invited to work in rehabilitation centers in New York City and Scottsdale, Arizona, as head of their medical massage program.  In 1998 he founded the publishing company Aesculapius Books.  He lectures in the U.S. and abroad on issues of manual therapy and medical massage, and is regularly invited to speak at American and international conferences.

Dr. Turchaninov is author of more than 40 scientific papers and other publications in European and American medical journals.  He is author of three major textbooks: Medical Massage, Volumes I and II, and Therapeutic Massage: A Scientific Approach.  He is founder and editor of Journal of Massage Science.

Dr. Turchaninov lives in Phoenix, Arizona with his wife and daughter.  His interests are literature, art, history and travel.