Jack Kushner MD, MGA, FACS, FICS, FAANS, HDG

Dr. Jack Kushner, a native of Montgomery, Alabama, grew up in the Jim Crow South, where he attended a segregated school and lived a segregated life. He attended Tulane University in New Orleans and the University of Sheffield in England. He attended the University of Alabama Medical School, interned at George Washington University Hospital and did a surgical residency at the University of Michigan Medical Center. He served in the US Army and was a combat surgeon at Tuy Hoa, Viet Nam with the 91 st Evacuation Hospital for which he was awarded a Bronze Star. Upon his return to the mainland, he served a Neurosurgery Residency at Wake Forest Medical Center in Winston-Salem, NC. Then he began neurosurgical practice in Annapolis, Maryland.

While practicing Neurosurgery, he attended the University of Maryland University College in the evening and earned a Master’s Degree in Financial Management. After he retired from Neurosurgery in 1995, he founded Transcriptions International and worked in the business arena with surgical simulators and telemedicine. He was on the Committee of Emerging Technology for the American College of Surgeons. He was later awarded the Marie Curie Award at Oxford University and inducted into the Hall of Fame at Oxford. He was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the World Forum in Washington DC. He was awarded the Ambassador of Knowledge Award at the University of Cambridge in England. Presently he is retired and has authored four books. He is working with the Board of the Tulane University Associates program.