Benjamin Carson,
MD,
is a professor of neurosurgery, plastic surgery, oncology, and pediatrics, and
the director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. He
serves on the boards of the Kellogg Company, Costco Wholesale Corp., and the
Academy of Achievement, among others, and is an Emeritus Fellow of the Yale
Corporation. He and his wife, Candy, cofounded the Carson Scholars Fund, a
501(c)3 established to counteract America's crisis in education by identifying
and rewarding academic role models in the fourth through eleventh grades,
regardless of race, creed, religion and socio-economic status, who also
demonstrate humanitarian qualities. There are over 4,800 such scholars in
forty-five states. Ben and Candy are the parents of three grown sons and reside
in Baltimore County, Maryland. |