More facts about Dr. Ben Carson

Dr. Carson holds more than 60 honorary doctorate degrees and has received literally hundreds of awards and citations.  He a Is a member of the Alpha Omega Honor Medical Society, the institute of Medicine/National Academy of  Science, the Horatio Alger Society of distinguished Americans, and many other prestigious organizations.  He sits on the board of directors of numerous organizations,
The Kellogg Co.. Costco Wholesale Co, the governing body of Yale University.  He was appointed in 2004 by President Bush to serve on the presidents council on bioethics'.  He is a  highly regarded motivational speaker who has addressed various audiences from school systems and civic groups to corporations and has spoken twice during the President's Prayer breakfast.

In 2001 Dr. Carson was named by CNN and Time Magazine as one of the nation's foremost physicians and scientists.  The same year he was selected by the Library of Congress as on of the 89 "Living Legend's" on the occasion of it's 200th anniversary. He is also a recipient of the 21006 Spingarn Medal which is the highest honor bestowed by the NAACP.  In February of 2008 he was awarded the Ford's Theatre Lincoln medal presented in the White House by president Bush. In June of 2008 he was awarded The Presidential Medal of Freedom by the president, which is the highest civilian honor in the land.  Dr. Carson was recognized in November,  2008 by U.S. News and World Report and Harvard's Center for Public Leadership, as one of "Americas Best Leaders". On Feb. 7, 2009 the award winning movie "Gifted Hands"  The Ben Carson story, starring Cuba Gooding Jr. premiered on TNT and is based on his memoir.

Dr. Carson is president and co-founder of the Carson scholars Fund, which recognizes young people of all backgrounds for exceptional academic and humanitarian accomplishments.  The fund is currently operating in 50 states and the District of Columbia, having awarded more than 5.6Million dollars to more than 5700 scholars.  The program also establishes Carson Reading Rooms to encourage young students and  their families' to discover the pleasure to be found in books and to recognize the true power of learning. Dr. Carson is also the co-founder of Angles of the OR under the auspices of the Baltimore Community Foundation, which provided grants to assist neurosurgery patients with expensed not covered by insurance.

His four books, Gifted Hands, Think Big, The Big Picture and Take the Risk: Learning to identify, Choose and Live with Acceptable Risk (Jan 2008) provide inspiration and insight for leading a successful life; a fifth book, America the Beautiful, Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great, (2012) was a New York Times best seller.  His next book: "One Nation" What we can all do to save America's future, was released in May of 2014.

Dr, Carson has been married over 38 years to his wife Candy and is the father of three sons.

Dr. Carson never uses a teleprompter!