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Respond to Carson, unlike Obama, has a record of achievement outside of politics. Ladan and Laleh Bijani , who were separated at age 29, only to die 90 minutes apart after surgery. (With Ben Carson) Ahmed and Mohamed Ibrahim who were born in Egypt . They were successfully separated at age 2 years, 4 months in October 2001 in Dallas, Texas. [ 11 ] Anastasia and Tatiana Dogaru , who were born with the crown of Tatiana's head joined to the back of Anastasia's. Doctors determined in 2007 that they could not be separated. [ 12 ] Krista and Tatiana Hogan , born on October 25, 2006. After a series of tests doctors also determined these twins could also not be separated. Joseph and Luka Banda from Zambia , born 1997, were separated successfully that year in South Africa by a team of surgeons led by Ben Carson . Johann and Stefan Rausch from Ulm , Germany were separated successfully at Johns Hopkins Children's Center by a team of surgeons led by Ben Carson . Stefan and Tyler Delp, both connected at the crown. At age 3, doctors determined that it was too risky for them to be separated. [ 13 ] Ganga and Jamuna Shreshta, born in Kathmandu, Nepal , successfully separated by Dr. Chumpon Chan and his team from the Singapore General Hospital . Carson figured in the revival of the hemispherectomy , a drastic surgical procedure in which part or all of one hemisphere of the brain is removed to control severe pediatric epilepsy . He refined the procedure in the 1980s, encouraged by John M. Freeman, [ 20 ] The procedure was revitalized in children in the 1980s by Dr. Ben Carson at Johns Hopkins Hospital Ben Carson revolutionized his field in several areas , including hemispherectomies (removal of half of the brain to prevent untreatable severe seizures, such as those caused by Rasmussen's encephalitis). He dramatically increased the safety of the procedure by developing several major surgical innovations, which include better ways of controlling bleeding and infection, as well as an innovative system of incrementally removing specific brain parts as units rather than in whole sections.3Dr. Carson has also contributed to new techniques used for conjoined twin separation7 and accomplished one of the most complex surgical feats in history as the lead surgeon of a team that separated twins joined at the back of the head in a 22-hour-long operation. Known as the doctor who takes cases that no other doctor will risk, Dr. Carson has had outstanding success in spite of this challenge. For example, he has achieved an amazing 80 to 90 percent success rate for difficult-to-treat trigeminal neuralgia . 8 At 33, he became the youngest major division director in the hospital's history as director of pediatric neurosurgery. He was also a co-director of the Johns Hopkins Craniofacial Center. Carson specialized in traumatic brain injuries, brain and spinal cord tumors, achondroplasia , neurological and congenital disorders, craniosynostosis , epilepsy , and trigeminal neuralgia Dr. Carson is a leading research scientist . A "voracious reader of the medical and scientific literature" from his graduate school days, he has long been very interested in scientific research and has been very active in this area for his entire career,5, 6 with over 120 major scientific publications in peer reviewed journals, 38 books and book chapters, and grant awards of almost a million dollars.
