Ben Carson

Also known as Benjamin Solomon "Ben" Carson, Sr., Dr. Ben Carson, Benjamin S. Carson, Sr., Benjamin S. Carson, Benjamin Solomon Carson Sr., Dr. Carson, Doctor Carson, Doctor Ben Carson

Neurosurgeon and former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

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Born: 1951
Works: 22

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Gifted hands
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Managing in the Middle
Think Big
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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United States
Active from: 2000-04-11

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Discography

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Listeners: 201
Total plays: 1,951

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5 total works indexed

Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using <b>lme4</b>
· 2015 · cited 73,437x
Fast gapped-read alignment with Bowtie 2
· 2012 · cited 52,871x
HISAT: a fast spliced aligner with low memory requirements
· 2015 · cited 21,535x
Ultrafast and memory-efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome
· 2009 · cited 19,790x
A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,415x

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Quotes

“So after a while, if people won't accept your excuses, you stop looking for them.”
“There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some of them thought that maybe those things would bring them happiness. But what, in fact, does is having a cause, having a passion. And that's really what gives life's true meaning.”
“I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.”
“I started reading about people of great accomplishment ... and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you.”
“There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everyone go along to get along. But that's not going to be very helpful for us in the long run in terms of solving our problems, and someone has to be courageous enough to actually stand up to the bullies.”
“I would like people to recognize in looking at my story that the person who has the most to do with what happens to you is you. It's not the environment, it's not the other people who were there trying to help you or trying to stop you. It's what you decide to do and how much effort you put behind it.”

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Key facts

President: Donald Trump
Secretary: Brooke Rollins
Preceded by: Position established
Deputy: Pam Patenaude , Brian D. Montgomery
Succeeded by: Marcia Fudge
Born: Benjamin Solomon Carson , ( 1951-09-18 ) September 18, 1951 (age 74) , Detroit , Michigan , U.S.
Party: Republican (1981–1999, since 2014)
Other political affiliations: Democratic (before 1981), Independent (1999–2014)
Spouse: Candy Rustin ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1975 )
Education: Yale University ( BA ), University of Michigan ( MD )
Awards: Presidential Medal of Freedom (2008), Spingarn Medal (2006)
Profession: Neurosurgeon
Institutions: Johns Hopkins School of Medicine , National Academy of Medicine
Sub specialties: Pediatric neurosurgery , Achondroplasia , Craniosynostosis , Epilepsy , Trigeminal neuralgia
Research: Hemispherectomy , Conjoined twins separation

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Official website: www.bencarson.com
Image: Ben Carson 2025.jpg
Number of children: 3

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Benjamin Solomon Carson Sr. (born September 18, 1951) is an American retired neurosurgeon, academic, author, and government official who served as the 17th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 2017 to 2021. A pioneer in the field of neurosurgery, he was a candidate in the 2016 Republican presidential primaries. Carson is one of the most prominent black conservatives in the United States.

Carson became the youngest chief of pediatric neurosurgery in the United States in 1984, when he took the job at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center at age 33. In 1987, he gained fame for leading a team of surgeons in the first-known separation of conjoined twins joined at the back of the head. He performed the first successful neurosurgical procedure on a fetus inside the womb, developed new methods to treat brain-stem tumors, and revitalized hemispherectomy techniques for controlling seizures. He has written more than 100 neurosurgical publications. He retired from medicine in 2013; at the time, he was professor of neurosurgery, oncology, plastic surgery, and pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.