Ben Carson

CTL-E-6730 · Person · physician · 1951–present

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Benjamin Solomon Carson (born 1951) is a pediatric neurosurgeon who, at Johns Hopkins in 1987, led the first successful separation of craniopagus twins — infants joined at the head — a 22-hour operation by a 70-person team. He directed pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins from 1984 to 2013 and wrote the memoir Gifted Hands. He later served as US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (2017–2021).

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Merged 2026-11-02 from the staged health pioneers packet (website/.build-work/scratch-v114/health/) under the GOV-006 founder gate opened 2026-11-02; the staged record is carried verbatim — no claim upgraded in transit (GOV-004). · Roles as staged: Physician — pediatric neurosurgeon (Johns Hopkins); US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development · Photo: Photo: United States Department of Housing and Urban Development · Public domain · Source: Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ben_Carson_official_portrait.jpg) · staged for CultureTechLens Full per-asset record in this package's photo-records.json, keyed to CTL-E-6730.

Sources

• Wikipedia, 'Ben Carson' — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Carson

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