Dr, Carney is a classically educated physician and surgeon who exposed to the massive clinical and autopsy material at Cook County Hospital as a medical student, intern, resident and attending surgeon over the course over the course of sixteen years.

In 1958, as a general surgical resident, he performed his first carotid angiogram and surgery on the neurosurgical service, published articles on its use in the diagnosis and treatment of subdural hematomas and held emergency neurosurgical privileges until the end of his general surgical residency in 1963.

In 1967, after practicing general and vascular surgery, he took a year fellowship at Baylor University in Houston, under Michael DeBakey, E Stanley Crawford, George Morris and Denton A Cooley, in cardiovascular surgery, and another in thoracic and cardiac surgery at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis under Thomas Burford, Thomas Ferguson, Charles Roper and Clarence Weldon.

In 1969, he returned to the Chicago area and began performing thoracic and cardiovascular surgery, including coronary bypass operations. In 1974, he established a noninvasive neurovascular laboratory and began using neurovascular stress testing and CT scan to evaluate the brain. In 1980, he was a founding member of the Society of Neurovascular Surgery and served as its executive director until 1986 when he became disabled.

In 1990, he began a fellowship in radiology, specifically in the Magnetic Resonance Imaging at the University of Illinois in Chicago and then joined the Departments of Orthopaedics, Neurological Surgery and Radiology

as a Clinical Associate Professor. Currently, he actively participates in the Departments of Neurological Surgery, Orthopaedics and Radiology and continues to write for the profession as well as for the public.

Updated June 25, 2008