Dr. Benjamin Carson: A Timeline
America the Beautiful (Zondervan, Jan. 2012)
 Feb. 7 - National Prayer Breakfast speech. >
June 30 - Retires.  
Oct. - Hired by FOX News.
 May 20 - One Nation (Sentinel HC).
Nov. - FOX News ends contributor relationship.
 Mar. 2 - Forms presidential exploratory committee. (+)
Jan. 20 - Age on Inauguration Day 65 years, 4 months.

2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019




Prostate cancer.
 July 6 - Operation to separate adult conjoined twins, Ladan and Laleh Bijani from Iran (unsuccessful).
Appears in movie "Stuck on You."
 President Bush names Carson to the President's Council on Bioethics.

Take the Risk (Zondervan, Dec. 2007)
 President Bush awards Carson the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

 Feb. 7 - "Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story" starring Cuba Gooding premiers on TNT.
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009

 
Gifted Hands
Think Big (Zondervan)
With his wife Candy co-founds Carson Scholars Fund.

Feb. 6 - Featured speaker at the National Prayer Breakfast. >
The Big Picture (Zondervan, Jan. 1999)
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999

 


Chief resident in neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins.
 Chief nuerosurgic resident at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in Perth, Australia for one year.
 Returns to Johns Hopkins.
 Director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins.
Sept. - Leads team of 70 in operation to separate craniopagus Siamese twins from Germany.

1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989

 



Bachelor's degree in psychology from Yale University.
Enrolls at University of Michigan School of Medicine.
Marries Lacrena "Candy" Rustin.*

M.D. from University of Michigan.
Resident at Johns Hopkins University.

1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979



Returns to Detroit.






Graduates from Southwestern High School in Detroit.
Full scholarship to Yale University.
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
 


Born Sept. 18, 1951 in Detroit, MI.  Mother Sonya and father Robert, a Baptist minister.  (Older brother Curtis).






Parents divorce.
Mother and the two children move to Boston to live with relatives.
1950
1951
1952
1953
1954
1955
1956
1957
1958
1959
  *Dr. Carson and his wife have 3 sons.

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