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- NAME: Ben Carson
- OCCUPATION: Surgeon, Philanthropist, Journalist
- BIRTH DATE: September 18, 1951 (Age: 61)
- EDUCATION: Southwestern High School, Yale University, Universty of Michigan Medical School, Johns Hopkins University
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Detroit, Michigan
- ZODIAC SIGN: Virgo
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Ben Carson overcame his troubled youth in inner-city Detroit to become a gifted neurosurgeon famous for his work separating conjoined twins.
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Because of his unflagging dedication to children and his many medical breakthroughs, Carson has received more than 50 honorary doctorate degrees and is a member of the Alpha Honor Medical Society, the Horatio Alger Society of Distinguished Americans and sits on the boards of numerous business and education boards.
In 2001, CNN and Time magazine named Ben Carson as one of the nation's 20 foremost physicians and scientists. In that same year,
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the Library of Congress selected him as one of 89 "Living Legends." In 2006, he received the Spingarn Medal, the highest honor bestowed by the NAACP. In February 2008, President Bush awarded Carson the Ford's Theater Lincoln Medal and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the U.S. highest civilian honors. In 2009, actor Cuba Gooding, Jr. portrayed Carson in the TNN television production Gifted Hands.
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