Background
Cushing, Harvey was born on April 8, 1869 in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. Son of Henry Kirke and Betsey M. (Williams) Cushing.
Cushing, Harvey was born on April 8, 1869 in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. Son of Henry Kirke and Betsey M. (Williams) Cushing.
Bachelor of Arts, Yale, 1891, honorary Master of Arts, 1912, Doctor of Science, 1919. A.M. and Doctor of Medicine Harvard, 1895, Doctor of Science, 1931. Honorary fellow Royal College Surgeons, England, 1913, Ireland, 1918, Edinburgh, 1927.
Doctor of Medicine honorary causa, Belfast, 1918, Strasbourg and Brussels, 1930, Budapest and Bern, 1931, Paris, 1933. Doctor of Science, Washington University, 1915. Doctor of Laws, Western Reserve University, 1919, Cambridge, 1920, Edinburgh and Glasgow universities, 1927.
Doctor of Letters, Dartmouth College, 1929.
Engaged in practice surgery, 1895-1933. Associate professor surgery, etc., Johns Hopkins, 1902-1912. Professor surgery, Harvard, and surgeon-in-chief, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, 1912-1932.
Sterling professor neurology, Yale, since 1933. Director United States of America Base Hospital, Northern 5, attached to B.E.F., in France, May 1917-March 1919. Senior consultant in neurological surgery, American Expeditionary Force, 1918.
Colonel Medical Corps Distinguished Service Medal (United States). Companion of the Bath. Offlcier Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur’Honneur.
Author: The Pituitary Body and Its Disorders, 1912. Tumors of the Nervus Acusticus, 1917. The Life of Sir William Osler, 1925 (Pulitzer prize).A Classification of the Gliomata (with P. Bailey), 1925. Consecratio Medici and other Essays, 1928. Intracranial Tumours, 1932.Pituitary Body and Hypothalamus, 1932.
Member National Academy Sciences.
Married Katharine Stone Crowell, June 10, 1902. Children: Mary Benedict, Betsey, Henry Kirke, Barbara.