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BEN CARSON WIKIPEDIA PAGE
Awards and honors
Carson at the White House in 2008 for the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Carson is a member of the American Academy of Achievement,[281] Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society,[282] and the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans.[283] Carson has been awarded 38 honorary doctorate degrees and dozens of national merit citations.[284] Detroit Public Schools opened the Dr. Benjamin Carson High School of Science and Medicine[285] for students interested in pursuing healthcare careers. The school is partnering with Detroit Receiving Hospital and Michigan State University.[286]
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In 2000, he received the Award for Greatest Public Service Benefiting the Disadvantaged, an award given out annually by Jefferson Awards.[287]
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In 2001, he was elected by the Library of Congress on the occasion of its 200th anniversary to be one of the 89 who earned the designation Library of Congress Living Legend.[288]
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In 2004, he was appointed to serve on The President’s Council on Bioethics.[289]
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In 2005, Carson was awarded the William E. Simon Prize for Philanthropic Leadership.[290]
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In 2006, he received the Spingarn Medal from the NAACP, their highest honor for outstanding achievement.[291]
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In 2008, the White House awarded Carson the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor.[292]
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In 2008, Ford’s Theatre Society awarded Carson the Ford’s Theatre Lincoln Medal, for exemplifying the qualities embodied by President Abraham Lincoln—including courage, integrity, tolerance, equality, and creative expression—through superior achievements.[293][294]
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In 2008, U.S. News & World Report named Carson as one of “America’s Best Leaders”.[295]
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In 2010, he was elected into the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine, considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine.[296]
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In 2012, Carson was the Influential Marylander Award recipient from The Daily Record, Baltimore’s legal and business newspaper.[297]
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In 2014, a poll of Americans conducted by Gallup ranked Carson sixth on a list of the most admired men in the world.[298]
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He is an emeritus fellow of the Yale Corporation.[299]