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    Benjamin Solomon Carson Sr. (born September 18, 1951) is an American retired neurosurgeon, academic, author, and politician who served as the 17th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 2017 to 2021.

  2. Jun 24, 2024 · Ben Carson, American politician and neurosurgeon who performed the first successful separation of conjoined twins who were attached at the back of the head. He later became involved in politics and served as U.S. secretary of HUD (2017–21) in the administration of President Donald Trump.

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  3. Apr 2, 2014 · Renowned neurosurgeon Ben Carson is the United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, appointed by President Donald Trump. Updated: Jan 11, 2021. (1951-) Who Is Ben...

    • In 1987, Carson was the first surgeon to successfully separate twins conjoined at the head. He was also the first to successfully perform intrauterine surgery.
    • Carson liked to listen to classical music while operating. He says it kept him calm.
    • Before retirement, Carson was reported to have performed over 300 surgeries a year, almost three times the average of any neurosurgeon.
    • He is a Seventh Day Adventist. He prayed before every surgery he performed.
  4. Nov 13, 2015 · And when it came time on that day in 1987 to put a knife to the large vein connecting them — the most fraught step in the groundbreaking operation to separate infant conjoined twins — Benjamin...

  5. Jul 12, 2010 · Neurosurgeon, medical director, foundation executive and author Dr. Benjamin Solomon Carson, Sr. was born on September 18, 1951 in Detroit Michigan, to Sonya and Robert Solomon Carson. After the couple separated, Carson and his brother Curtis lived with their mother.

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  7. Sep 6, 2015 · Ben Carson had wanted to be a doctor since he was a child in Detroit in the early nineteen-sixties, but he had the first inkling of what kind of doctor he might be when, as an undergraduate at...

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