Harvey Cushing

Harvey Cushing
Harvey Cushing in 1938
Born
Harvey Williams Cushing

(1869-04-08)April 8, 1869
DiedOctober 7, 1939(1939-10-07) (aged 70)
EducationYale University (BA)
Harvard University (MD)
Years active1895–1935
Known for
Children5, including Mary, Betsey, and Barbara
Medical career
Profession
InstitutionsPrivate 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)
AwardsFellow 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.