Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa

Quiñones was born in Mexicali, Baja California, México.{{cite web|last=DUDLEY|title=The Alfredo Story|url=http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/hmn/W07/feature1.cfm|access-date=22 September 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120924100656/http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/hmn/W07/feature1.cfm|archive-date=24 September 2012|url-status=dead}} In 1987, at the age of 19, Quiñones-Hinojosa went to the United States.{{Cite journal

| last1 = Quiñones-Hinojosa | first1 = A.

| title = Terra Firma — A Journey from Migrant Farm Labor to Neurosurgery

| doi = 10.1056/NEJMp078105

| journal = New England Journal of Medicine

| volume = 357

| issue = 6

| pages = 529–531

| year = 2007

| pmid = 17687127

}}{{Cite journal | last1 = Ledford | first1 = H. | title = Work ethic: The 24/7 lab | doi = 10.1038/477020a | journal = Nature | volume = 477 | issue = 7362 | pages = 20–22 | year = 2011 | pmid = 21886138| bibcode = 2011Natur.477...20L | doi-access = free }} Once arriving in the United States, Quiñones could not speak English and worked on farms outside of Fresno, California. As a farm hand, he saved enough money to take English classes.

Quiñones-Hinojosa started his education at San Joaquin Delta College in Stockton, California. He completed his bachelor's degree in psychology with the highest honors at University of California, Berkeley.{{cite web|url=http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/dome/0609/top_story.cfm |title=DOME: The Remarkable Journey of Doctor Q |publisher=Hopkinsmedicine.org |access-date=2012-03-11}} He then went on to receive his medical degree from Harvard Medical School, where he graduated with honors. He also became a US citizen during this time.{{cite web|author=All Things Considered |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10013111 |title=Farmworker to Surgeon: Immigrant Lives Dream |publisher=NPR |access-date=2012-03-11}} He then completed his residency in neurosurgery at the University of California, San Francisco, where he also completed a postdoctoral fellowship in developmental and stem cell biology at the laboratory of Professor Arturo Alvarez-Buylla.

Quiñones began his career at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, where he became a Professor of Neurosurgery and Oncology, Neurology, and Cellular and Molecular Medicine and director of the Brain Tumor Stem Cell Biology Lab.

Quiñones conducts both clinical and basic science research. From 2005 to 2016, his team published over 150 scientific articles and received 14 funding grants. 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.{{cite web|url=http://doctorqmd.com/what-we-do/ |title=All the things Dr Quinones does at Hopkins. Basic science research, clinical research, neurosurgery, and social events |publisher=Doctorqmd.com |access-date=2012-03-11}} He has been actively involved in fundraisers for brain cancer research. He continues to participate at half-marathons with his research team and some of his own patients to raise money for cancer research.{{cite web|url=http://doctorqmd.com/get-involved/ |title=Fundraisers for Dr Quinones' fight against brain tumors |publisher=Doctorqmd.com |access-date=2012-03-11}}

Quiñones is the author of more than 50 book chapters, and has authored several textbooks on neurosurgical techniques and stem cell biology.{{cite web|title = www.hopkinsmedicine.org/neurology_neurosurgery/cv/alfredo-quinones.pdf|url = http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/neurology_neurosurgery/cv/alfredo-quinones.pdf|website = www.hopkinsmedicine.org|access-date = 2015-06-17|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150501054241/http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/neurology_neurosurgery/cv/alfredo-quinones.pdf|archive-date = 2015-05-01|url-status = dead}} In 2011, Quiñones edited Core Techniques in Operative Neurosurgery{{cite book|title = Core Techniques in Operative Neurosurgery |isbn=9781437709070 |publisher=US Elsevier Health Bookshop|url = https://www.us.elsevierhealth.com/neurosurgery/core-techniques-in-operative-neurosurgery-expert-consult/9781437709070/|access-date = 2015-06-17|year=2011}} and published his autobiography, Becoming Dr Q: My Journey from Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon, which went on to earn him an International Latino Book Award in 2012{{cite web|title = www.lbff.us/bookawards.php|url = http://www.lbff.us/bookawards.php|website = www.lbff.us|access-date = 2015-06-17|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150812161041/http://www.lbff.us/bookawards.php|archive-date = 2015-08-12|url-status = dead}}. In 2012, Quiñones was the lead editor of the 6th edition of Schmidek and Sweet's Operative Neurosurgical Techniques, one of the world's preeminent textbooks of neurosurgery.{{cite web|url=http://doctorqmd.com/books/ |title=Becoming Dr Q: My journey from migrant farm worker to brain surgeon |publisher=Doctorqmd.com |date=2012-02-22 |access-date=2012-03-11}} He will also serve as the lead editor for the 7th edition of Schmidek and Sweet's Operative Neurosurgical Techniques. In 2013, Quiñones published Controversies in Neuro-Oncology: Best Evidence Medicine for Brain Tumor Surgery with Dr. Shaan Raza. The British Medical Association awarded Controversies in Neuro-Oncology first prize in Oncology in 2014.{{cite web|title = BMA - Library - Medical Book Awards Winners By Category {{!}} British Medical Association|url = http://bma.org.uk/about-the-bma/bma-library/medical-book-awards/medical-book-awards-winners-by-category|website = bma.org.uk|access-date = 2015-06-17|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150607183517/http://bma.org.uk/about-the-bma/bma-library/medical-book-awards/medical-book-awards-winners-by-category|archive-date = 2015-06-07|url-status = dead}} Quiñones is currently working on a first Video-Atlas of Neurosurgery that will be published in 2016.

• 1986 B.A. Escuela Normal Urbana Federal Fronteriza, Mexicali, Mexico - Social Sciences and Humanities, Multidisciplinary teaching license{{Cite web |url=http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/neurology_neurosurgery/cv/alfredo-quinones.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2012-05-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150501054241/http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/neurology_neurosurgery/cv/alfredo-quinones.pdf |archive-date=2015-05-01 |url-status=dead }}
• 1991 San Joaquin Delta Community College, Stockton, California - Transfer core curriculum to the University of California
• 1994 B.A. University of California, Berkeley, California - Highest Honors
• 1999 M.D. Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts - Cum Laude
• 2000 University of California, San Francisco, California (General Surgery) - Most Valuable Intern Award
• 2004 University of California, San Francisco, California (Residency - Neurosurgery) - Howard Naffziger Neurological Surgery Award
• 2006 Howard Hughes Institute - Physician-Scientist Career Award
• 2006 Association of American Medical Colleges - Herbert Nickens Award
• 2006 American Society of Clinical Oncology Foundation - Career Development Award
• 2006 American College of Surgeon - Franklin Martin Faculty Research Award
• 2006 Johns Hopkins University - Passano Physician Scientist Award
• 2007 Johns Hopkins Hospital - Department of Neurosurgery - Faculty Teaching Award (Richard J. Otenasek)
• 2007 Robert Wood Johnson Award
• 2007 Popular Science Magazine - Brilliant 10 Scientists Award{{cite web|last=Mone |first=Gregory |url=http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2007-10/popscis-6th-annual-brilliant-ten?page=2 |title=PopSci's 6th Annual Brilliant Ten | Popular Science |date=3 October 2007 |publisher=Popsci.com |access-date=2012-03-11}}
• 2007 Baltimore Magazine - US Top Docs{{cite web|last=Serpick |first=Evan |url=http://www.baltimoremagazine.net/health/2011/11/the-curious-case-of-dr-q |title=The Curious Case of Dr. Q |publisher=Baltimore magazine |access-date=2012-05-14}}
• 2008 Olender Foundation - America's Role Model Award{{cite web|url=http://www.olender.com/the-olender-foundation/ |title=Jack H. Olender & Associates, Medical Malpractice Law, Washington, D.C |publisher=Olender.com |access-date=2012-05-14}}
• 2010 Science & Engineering Festival - Nifty Fifty Scientist{{cite web|url=http://www.usasciencefestival.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=74&Itemid=95 |title=Nifty Fifty |publisher=Usasciencefestival.org |access-date=2012-03-11 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120723105635/http://www.usasciencefestival.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=74&Itemid=95 |archive-date=July 23, 2012 }}
• 2011 Baltimore Magazine - Baltimore Top Docs{{cite web|url=http://doctorqmd.com/assets/files/1/files/pdfs/quinones_baltimore_nov2011-.pdf |title=Assets data |date=2011 |website=doctorqmd.com }}
• 2012 Named as Super Doctor{{cite web|title = Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa :: Doctor - Baltimore, Maryland (MD) :: Doctor Profile :: Super Doctors|url = http://www.superdoctors.com/maryland-baltimore/doctor/Alfredo-Quinones-Hinojosa/dbb46db7-bde9-4665-a765-4dbe44c762b6.html|website = www.superdoctors.com|access-date = 2015-06-15}}
• 2012 Recipient of Ohtli Award{{cite web|url=http://www.ime.gob.mx/images/stories/ime/reconocimiento_ohtli/othli_lista.pdf|title=Lista de glardonados|website=Insituto de los Mexicanos en el Exterior|language=es|access-date=23 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170423233510/http://www.ime.gob.mx/images/stories/ime/reconocimiento_ohtli/othli_lista.pdf|archive-date=23 April 2017|url-status=dead}}
• 2015 VII Premio Iberoamericano Cortes de Cádiz Surgery Award, Spain{{cite web|title = Cirugía « Premios Iberoamericanos Cortes de Cádiz|url = http://www.premioscortesdecadiz.es/ediciones-anteriores/cirugia-pedro-virgili/|website = www.premioscortesdecadiz.es|access-date = 2015-06-17}}
• 2015 Forbes, World's Most Creative Mexicans{{cite web|title = Dr. Q., el mexicano que busca derrotar al cáncer - Forbes México|url = https://www.forbes.com.mx/dr-q-el-mexicano-que-busca-derrotar-al-cancer/|access-date = 2015-06-17|date = 2015-01-17}}{{Failed verification|date=July 2022|reason=Profile article doesn't state anything about "World's Most Creative Mexicans".}}
• 2018 Doctorate honoris cause, by University of Santander - UDES - Bucaramanga, COLOMBIA

Dr Q’s story was featured in ‘Hopkins’.

Quiñones stars in the second episode of The Surgeon's Cut, produced by BBC Studios’ The Science Unit for Netflix which was released globally on 9th of December 2020.BBC News [https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/bbcstudios/2020/bbc-studios-productions-surgeons-cut-premiere-globally-netflix "The Surgeon's Cut"]

In the Immigration episode of Adam Ruins Everything, Quiñones-Hinojosa's name and picture (wearing a hat that says "Dr. Q" on it,) is featured in a lineup of some of the Mexican-American immigrants who have improved the United States.

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{{Commons category|Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa}}

• [http://www.doctorqmd.com The New Website of Dr Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa], May 2012
• [http://www.doctorqmd.com/spotlight/videos/ All the videos of Dr Quinones-Hinojosa], May 2012
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20111016120106/http://www.ucpress.edu/excerpt.php?isbn=9780520271180 "Becoming Dr. Q: My Journey from Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon" - book excerpt]
• [https://www.ibiology.org/profiles/farm-worker-to-a-scientist/ Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa Short Talk: "How I Became a Scientist"]
• [https://www.ibiology.org/neuroscience/brain-tumors/ Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa's Seminar: "Brain Tumors and Stem Cells"]
• [http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=2827344n An 'American' Success Story], May 19, 2007
• [https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-amazing-doctor-q/ The Amazing Doctor Q], February 11, 2009
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20080724111311/http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/25802159/ Once a migrant worker, today he’s a brain surgeon], updated 7/23/2008 9:51:16 AM ET
• [https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/brain-surgeon.html From Farmhand to Brain Surgeon Posted 07.01.08]
• [https://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=5247526&page=1 The American Dream: Dr. Quiñones' Incredible Journey], June 26, 2008
• {{C-SPAN|9277672}}
• [http://www.c-span.org/video/?301396-1/qa-alfredo-quinoneshinojosa C-SPAN Q&A interview with Quinones-Hinojosa, October 16, 2011]

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