Alex graduated from Medical School in the UK in 2000. Following postgraduate training in General and Orthopaedic surgery, Alex pursued a career in Plastic Surgery. She worked in world renowned Plastic Surgery Units such as Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, and Guys & St Thomas’ Hospital in London.

Alex moved to Australia in 2008 and continued her Plastic Surgical career in major Hospitals within Melbourne and Adelaide. In 2016 she was awarded Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (FRACS) as a Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon

Alex holds a Consultant Staff Specialist Position at Flinders Medical Centre.

Her private practice includes all facets of plastic surgery with a significant proportion being cosmetic surgery. She specialises in breast augmentation (enlargement, reduction, lifts, and corrections), surgical procedures for the body (weight loss surgery and body contouring, liposuction, tummy tucks, body lifts, labiaplasty, brachioplasty and thigh lifts), facial surgery (blepharoplasty, otoplasty, and facial fractures), Skin Cancer surgery (melanomas and carcinomas), hand surgery (Cubital/Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Osteoarthritis, Arthritis, trigger finger, Dupuytren’s disease, ganglions, tendons, nerve repairs, and factures), men’s plastic surgery (including Gynaecomastia). and paediatric plastic surgery.

Dr Turner operates privately at Glenelg Community Hospital, Ashford Hospital, Flinders Private Hospital Burnside Hospital Toorak Gardens and Burnside Hospital Stepney. She consults at Westbourne Park, and Specialists@The Parade, Norwood.