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Harvey Cushing. 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.
Harvey Williams Cushing was an American surgeon who was the leading neurosurgeon of the early 20th century. Cushing graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1895 and then studied for four years at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, under William Stewart Halsted.
Oct 24, 2016 · Harvey Cushing is well known as being the father of modern neurological surgery and his portrait brands the American Association of Neurological Surgeons. He was the youngest of 10 children and from medical lineage with his father, grandfather and great-grandfather all being general medical practitioners.
Harvey Cushing: the man, the surgeon and the father. Yale Medicine Magazine, 2006 - Spring. A new biography of the pioneering neurosurgeon explores different facets of the man who revolutionized brain surgery.
Jan 11, 2021 · Harvey Williams Cushing (1869 – 1939) was an American author, educator, leader, and neurosurgeon. One of the greatest American surgeons of all time, Cushing is often regarded as the father of neurosurgery.
Harvey Cushing. 1869-1939. Cushing, a pioneer in neurosurgery, was born in Cleveland. He attended the Cleveland Manual Training School where he became interested in science and medicine. Cushing graduated with a B.A. from Yale University in 1891, and earned his M.D. from Harvard University in 1895.
Cushing was at the height of his career as neurosurgeon, researcher, and clinical teacher in the 1920s. He was chief of surgery at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and Moseley Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. Patients were sent to him from near and far, so that by 1931, he had completed 2000 tumor operations.
