Dr. Ben Carson is a $30 million net-worth American neurosurgeon. Dr. Ben Carson is a world-renowned neurosurgeon who rose to prominence as a Republican contender for President of the United States in 2016. Dr. Carson was chosen as the 17th Secretary of Housing and Urban Development by President Donald Trump in March 2017.
Dr. Carson’s net worth was $26 million in 2014, accord ing to a financial statement. In 2016, a revised financial report reduced his net worth estimate to $16 million. Carson disclosed in 2016 that he owned tens of millions of dollars in publicly listed equities in firms, including Kellogg and Costco, where he served on the Board of Directors.
What are some of the awards won by Dr. Ben Carson?
Dr. Ben Carson is a member of the American Academy of Achievement, the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans, and the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans.
Carson has received 38 honorary doctorates and scores more national recognition awards. The Dr. Benjamin Carson High School of Science and Medicine was established for students interested in pursuing healthcare occupations by the Detroit Public Schools. The university is collaborating with Detroit Receiving Hospital and Michigan State University.
In 2000, he was honored with the Jefferson Awards Award for Greatest Public Service Benefiting the Disadvantaged. On the occasion of the Library of Congress’s 200th anniversary in 2001, he was chosen as one of 89 individuals to receive the title Library of Congress Living Legend.
He was named to The President’s Council on Bioethics in 2004.
Carson received the William E. Simon Prize for Philanthropic Leadership in 2005.
In 2006, he was awarded the NAACP’s Spingarn Medal, the organization’s highest distinction for distinguished performance.
Carson was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, by the White House in 2008.
Carson was given the Ford’s Theatre Lincoln Medal in 2008 by the Ford’s Theatre Society.
Carson received the Ford’s Theatre Lincoln Medal in 2008 for exemplifying the virtues embodied by President Abraham Lincoln, such as courage, honesty, tolerance, equality, and artistic expression, via great achievements.
Carson was named one of “America’s Best Leaders” by U.S. News & World Report in 2008.
He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine in 2010, which is considered one of the highest honors in health and medicine.
Carson received the Influential Marylander Award from The Daily Record, Baltimore’s legal and business newspaper, in 2012.
In 2014, a Gallup poll of Americans placed Carson sixth on a list of the most admired people.
He is a Yale Corporation emeritus fellow.
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