Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, M.D., is a consultant and serves as chair of the Department of Neurologic Surgery at Mayo Clinic's campus in Florida, and he is recognized with the distinction of a named professorship, the William J. and Charles H. Mayo Professorship.
Where is Dr Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa from?
Mexicali, Mexico
How did Dr Q get into Harvard?
So in 1987, when I was 19, I went up to the border between Mexicali and the United States and hopped the fence. Some years later, I was sitting at a lunch table with colleagues at Harvard Medical School. Someone asked how I'd come to Harvard. “I hopped the fence,” I said.13 May 2008
When was Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa born?
January 2, 1968age 54 years
How did Dr Q go to Harvard?
After completing an honors thesis in neuroscience, Dr. Q was encouraged by Dr. Martinez and Hugo Mora, the director of Berkeley's Hispanic Center of Excellence, to apply to Harvard Medical School. To his great surprise and delight, he was admitted.
What did Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa do to make the world better?
Today, Quinones-Hinojosa is working on a treatment for brain tumors involving stem cells derived from fat cells. Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa entered the United States by literally hopping over a fence. Today, he is a neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.25 May 2013
Is Dr Q married?
Quinones-Hinojosa lives with his wife Anna, three children, two dogs and two cats in Marsh Landing. The children are Gabriella, 18, David, 16, and Oliva, 12.
What did Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa do?
Quiñones conducts numerous research efforts on elucidating the role of stem cells in the origin of brain tumors, and the potential role stem cells can play in fighting brain cancer and regaining neurological function. He has been actively involved in fundraisers for brain cancer research.
What was Dr quiñones first dream?
At the community college, a teacher took me under his wing, and I began to have my eyes opened to the American dream even more. I began to see what education can do for you, and I realized that I wanted to get an education even more. By 1991, I was at the University of California, Berkeley.