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Carson professor of
neurosurgery,
oncology,
plastic surgery, and
pediatrics, and he was the director of pediatric neurosurgery at
Johns Hopkins Hospital. At age 33, he became the youngest major division director in Johns Hopkins history, as director of pediatric neurosurgery. He was also a co-director of the Johns Hopkins Craniofacial Center.
According to
Johns Hopkins Hospital literature, “Dr. Carson focuses on traumatic brain injuries, brain and spinal cord tumors,
achondroplasia, neurological and congenital disorders,
craniosynostosis, epilepsy, and
trigeminal neuralgia. He is also interested in maximizing the intellectual potential of every child.”
Carson believes his
hand–eye coordination and three-dimensional reasoning skills made him a gifted surgeon.After medical school, he became a neurosurgery resident at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. Starting off as an adult neurosurgeon, Carson became more interested in pediatrics. He believed that with children, “what you see is what you get,... when they’re in pain they clearly show it with a frown on their face or when they are happy they show it by smiling brightly.”
In 1987 Carson successfully separated
conjoined twins, the Binder twins, who had been joined at the back of the head, making them
craniopagus twins. The 50-member surgical team, led by Carson, worked for 22 hours. At the end, the twins were successfully separated and can now survive independently.
