Name: Harvey Williams Cushing Dates: 1869-1939 Nationality: American Place of Birth: USA Last Post: Professor of Surgery at Harvard Claim to fame: Cushings Disease

Educated at Yale, Harvard and the John Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore USA.
Cushing was William Halsteds apprentice and a colleague and pupil of William Osler. In addition he was an accomplished artist who illustrated his own reports and papers. Two important papers; The Pituitary body and its disorders (1912) and, the study of 2000 intracranial tumours in 1932. Cushing confirmed his hypothesis that a tumour of the anterior pituitary gland caused hyperadrenocorticalism.

He was avid collector of historical medical books and won the Pulitzer Prize for his biography on Sir William Osler.