Yale Bulletin and Calendar

April 5, 2002

Volume 30, Number 24

Surgeon trustee will give talk to city youths

Renowned surgeon and Yale trustee Dr. Benjamin S. Carson will give a free public talk at 3 p.m. on Saturday, April 13, in Woolsey Hall, corner of College and Grove streets.

Through his television appearances, speaking engagements and books, Carson urges all young people to use their intellectual potential to achieve success.

A free copy of Carson's autobiography, "Gifted Hands," will be given to all schoolchildren who attend his presentation, courtesy of the University. All members of the Yale and New Haven communities are invited to attend. A special invitation is extended to New Haven schoolchildren and their families.

A 1973 graduate of Yale College, Carson is head of pediatric neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and a professor at the school. His talk will feature the story of how he rose from poverty and other disadvantages during his childhood to attend Yale and pursue a career in the medical profession, as well as the surgeries he and his medical colleagues perform on children with severe congenital defects.

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