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Harvey Cushing | |
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 Harvey Cushing in 1938 | |
| Born | Harvey Williams Cushing April 8, 1869 Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. |
| Died | October 7, 1939 (aged 70) New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Education | Yale University (BA) Harvard University (MD) |
| Years active | 1895–1935 |
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| Children | 5, including Mary, Betsey, and Barbara |
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| Institutions | Private practice (Baltimore) Johns Hopkins Hospital (Associate Professor of Surgery, c. 1891) Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and (surgeon-in-chief) Harvard Medical Yale School of Medicine (Sterling Professor of Medicine in Neurology, 1933–1937) |
| Awards | Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh (1924) Pulitzer Prize (1926) Lister Medal (1930) |
Harvey Williams Cushing (April 8, 1869 – October 7, 1939) was an American neurosurgeon, pathologist, writer, and draftsman. A pioneer of brain surgery, he was the first exclusive neurosurgeon and the first person to describe Cushing's disease. He wrote a biography of physician William Osler in three volumes.